Honors Housing

All Honors students have the option of living in Honors housing, though they may choose to live in any of the residence halls on campus for which they are eligible. Click on any of the buildings below to learn more about them from UMaine Housing Services, including photos, dimensions, video tours, and more! For more information about on-campus housing and how to apply, please contact the UMaine Housing Office (um.housing@maine.edu, 207.581.4580).

Incoming first-year Honors students are assigned to Honors Housing based on their housing application requests in a first-come, first-served procedure. Click here for information on how to apply for housing!

Current (rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors) Honors students must submit interest to live in Colvin, Balentine, or Penobscot (only singles on floors 3 and 4) Halls. Quads, triples, doubles, and singles are available. Click here to submit the Interest in Honors Housing Form!

Colvin Hall Colvin Hall is a complete living-learning facility for Honors. The second and third floors host the smallest residence hall on campus, accommodating 36 students. The building also has two classrooms, faculty offices, a comfy reading room, as well as a multi-purpose room with a spacious student forum and a Visiting Scholars Suite which hosts distinguished academics from across the world.

Penobscot Hall Penobscot Hall offers typical double rooms, typically filled with first-year Honors students. For sophomores and upperclassmen in Honors, a limited number of single rooms are also available.

Balentine Hall Balentine Hall, arguably one of the most beautiful buildings on campus, was first occupied in 1914. Today it is part of Honors College housing, with room for 78 students. The first floor also holds a home-like student lounge and a sunny classroom, used for several Honors courses each semester.

Estabrooke Hall Estabrooke Hall was recently renovated in 2015. Upperclass Honors students can live on the third floor in deluxe single, single, and double rooms. The first floor of the building also hosts Honors staff and faculty offices, plus an Honors classroom. There is also a ballroom on the first floor where the Honors Student Advisory Board hosts events.

Prospective Students

Current Students