Columbia International University

Each semester approximately 400 students live in one of the three types of on-campus housing provided. CIU has 6 traditional residence halls which house mainly undergraduates. Two suite-style Clusters are reserved for upperclass, undergraduate women. We also have 5 homes (capacity of 5) which are used to house graduate and seminary students.

Traditional residence halls have double occupancy rooms with entrances from a shared hallway. Each floor shares a kitchenette, storage room, cleaning closet, and two hall restrooms/shower rooms. Click here to see a typical double room layout.

CIU Residential Network Access (ResNet)

CIU Residential Network is a service to the students that provides an Internet connection. In order to take advantage of this service, the student will need to have a personal computer with the following items:

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista with the most recent updates, or Mac OS X or later.
• Anti-Virus Software that receives daily virus definition updates.
• At least a 1 GHz processor, with at least 500 MB of free hard drive space, and at least 512 MB RAM. Computers with less than 512 MB RAM will receive limited support.
• 10 Base-T Wired Ethernet , 10/100 Base-Tx Wired Ethernet or 802.11b or g Wireless card. The front desk in the computer lab sells cables. Extension 5147.

Please note that we will be unable to support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Linux, or UNIX based operating systems. We will gladly check your network connection with a test computer, but you will be completely responsible for resolving any problems with an unsupported machine or operating system.

The IT Services Department lists the following minimum specifications for a computer that will connect successfully to the CIU network. While computers that do not meet these specifications might be able to connect, we will only be able to provide technical support to computers that fall within the stated minimum requirement guidelines.

Processor 350 MHz or higher
RAM 128 MB or higher
Hard Drive 500 MB Free Space or more
Ethernet or Wireless as previously specified
Ethernet Category 5 patch cable (cables can be purchased from the SCC Front Desk if needed)

The Clusters and graduate/seminary houses are connected to ResNet, and have recently been updated with a wireless high speed internet connection.

Each of CIU's suite-style Clusters contains 4 groups of rooms. Within each room cluster, three students share a common area and sink while maintaining their privacy in their own partitioned space. The 4 room clusters share a larger living room, laundry room, and fully equipped kitchen.

CIU owns 5 single-family homes on-campus that have been turned into on-campus houses for single graduate and seminary students. Each house has four bedrooms: 3 are single rooms, 1 is a double room. Each house has two full bathrooms, kitchen, living room and a dining room. The houses are each furnished but vary from house to house.