You will need a certain amount of patience to find affordable accommodation that is right for you. Flats within Berlin's S-Bahn ring are particularly in demand. You should take care of this well in advance — ideally as soon as you receive your study place. Please pay attention to consider legitimate offers only!

• In the student dormitories of Studierendenwerk Berlin you can either live in a private apartment or share with others. From the Treskowallee Campus you can easily walk to the Aristotelessteig and Sewanstraße dormitories. For all student dormitories the same rule applies: if you are interested in a place, you must register through the residence portal. The waiting lists can be very long. You can only apply for a place if you already got a spot for a study programme!
• The Bürgermeister-Reuter-Stiftung rents private rooms and apartments for one or two people to students.

You can search for shared accommodation (called Wohngemeinschaften or WG for short in German) on WG portals.

• The best ways to find an apartment are
  • on real estate portals,
  • on the websites of the housing associations and housing cooperatives in Berlin,
  • in the housing market sections of magazines and newspapers, e.g. Berliner Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, zitty and Zweite Hand.
• If you only have a low income, you can apply for Wohngeld (housing benefits) and a Wohnberechtigungsschein (document certifying your financial hardship) which will entitle you to inexpensive social housing.