For more information please contact our International Admissions Team: +44 23 80 43 5636 option 3 or email international@itchen.ac.uk
For more information please contact our International Admissions Team: +44 23 80 43 5636 option 3 or email international@itchen.ac.uk
We provide our International students with safe and comfortable College managed accommodation with one of our local homestay hosts.
Homestay accommodation provides you with an invaluable opportunity to:
We endeavour to place students in homes that are within a 45-minute commute from the College. That can be by walking, on public transport or College Managed bus. Any additional transport costs will be confirmed when the College confirms a host placement.
We have many types of homestay hosts from couples with or without children, single-parents, extended families, childless families, stepfamilies or grandparent families, senior citizens, those living alone or with a partner or friend. Many of our hosts have cats or dogs as we love our pets in the UK. We celebrate difference and are proud to say that our homestay offering is varied and diverse. Please trust that we will match you with a host that meets your needs and cannot accept requests for specific family structures. We do our best to place you with the most suitable homestay, which is why we encourage you to send the application and necessary forms as early as possible.
We encourage our students and hosts to take part in activities together as a good practice to improve your English outside the classroom and to get to know each other. Our hosts have set house rules which you will need to follow, just like anyone else living in the household.
International Students are placed with local, carefully selected homestay hosts.
Homestay accommodation is half board with breakfast and evening meals during weekdays and 3 meals at weekends. Special dietary requirements can be accommodated but there may be supplementary charges.
As you will be living in the home of a family in Southampton, you will get first hand experience of life in the UK. The host family is there to help you adjust and settle into your new life here.
Helpful information and Tips to living in home stay accommodation.
Guidelines Top Tips for a successful stayInternational Prospectus
Download our International ProspectusPosition: Student Welfare and Accommodation Officer
Phone: 02380435636 EXT 305
Email: hsullivan@itchen.ac.uk
Position: International Operations Manager
Phone: 02380 435636 EXT 302
Email: ljones@itchen.ac.uk
Position: International Marketing & Programme Manager
Phone: 02380 435636 EXT 301
Email: sbyres@itchen.ac.uk
Position: International Student Support Officer
Phone: 02380 435636 EXT 271
Email: lmelendez@itchen.ac.uk