The Eugene-Springfield area offers generally affordable housing compared to other West-Coast cities with good public transit and protected bike paths running throughout the city. However, the timeline of the accelerated timeline of the MS internship program makes finding housing more difficult than for traditional programs. Most companies catering to students require a one year lease period, although students have been in the past able to sign shorter leases or obtain month-to-month rentals. Usually rental companies are more likely to agree to a month-to-month rental close to the start of the school year after they have secured 12 month leases for as many of their units as they can.
Once you are accepted to the program, we provide a housing contact list where you can connect with other accepted students to work together to find housing options. The University of Oregon has Graduate Student and Family Housing and also provides a web service to help students find off campus housing.
There are also a limited number of rooms available on a month-to-month basis in the furnished Electrochemistry House (privately owned, 4149 / 4151 E Amazon, two units, each with 5 bedrooms, 3+ baths, and 2300 sq ft.) reserved for MS students in this program or other researchers in the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry . Please contact Misty Jones at Preferred Northwest Property Management if you are interested in these. E-mail: misty@preferrednorthwestpm.com
