Welcome to the MIT On-Campus Sublicense Center!

Here you can:

  • find apartments or rooms on campus that are available to sublicense from the current resident
  • post your own room or apartment for sublicensing by another MIT affiliate

Sublicensing Policies

Terminology and Guidelines

  • Sublicense - MIT students who live in on-campus housing have been granted a license to live in their units - not a lease. For this reason, we use the term sublicense rather than the more common term sublet.

  • Sublicensor - If you are the legal license holder of a unit in MIT on-campus housing (resident) and you would like to sublicense it to another MIT affiliate, you are the sublicensor.

  • Sublicensee - Current MIT affiliate who sublicenses an MIT on-campus housing unit from a current legal license holder through the Sublicense process.

Sublicensor Guidelines:

  • Current residents may not sublicense on behalf of visiting family members.

  • Current residents may not sublicense another apartment on-campus during the dates they are the license holder for their current assignment.

  • The sublicensor will continue to be billed as usual during the sublicense period and is responsible for collecting housing fees from the sublicensee.

  • The sublicensor must not charge more than the housing rates stated on the website for the current year. A sublicensor cannot include house tax in their rate.
  • The sublicensor can advertise their sublicense on the MIT Off-Campus website.  Advertising is prohibited on Craigslist, Airbnb, or other similar sites.

  • The sublicensor is responsible for explaining house-specific policies to their sublicensee.

  • A resident should not leave their MIT ID card with the sublicensee.

Sublicensee Guidelines:

  • All sublicensees must be at least 18 years of age.

  • Do not apply for more than one sublicense within the same date range.

  • If you are looking for housing with your partner and/or children, you may only sublicense a family housing unit. You must live with your family in the unit and are required to provide proof of family to Housing & Residential Services before being approved for a sublicense. Information about what you can use to verify your family status can be found on our Family Housing website.

  • Rooms in single student housing are for individual sublicensees only.

  • Couple’s spaces in single housing cannot be sublicensed to families with children or additional legal dependents

  • When you sublicense an on-campus graduate housing unit, you are required to abide by all of MIT’s rules and regulations, all housing policies, as well as all applicable federal, state, and local laws, and the rules and regulations of the residence in which you live.

General Sublicensing Rules

  • Sublicenses are only available during the summer and IAP/winter break.

  • Sublicense advertisements are MIT Certificate protected. Only affiliates of MIT - students, faculty, staff, and visiting faculty, students, and scholars - are eligible to sublicense apartments. Alumni, families of students, Draper, Broad, and Whitehead employees are not eligible. Sublicenses can be advertised on the MIT Off-Campus website, but cannot be posted on any other site (e.g., AirBnB, Craigslist, etc)

  • A room may be sublicensed to someone of the opposite sex only with the written approval of all roommates in the suite/apartment.

  • A refundable deposit of up to $300 may be requested by the sublicensor

  • The space cannot be occupied until the sublicense has been approved by Housing & Residential Services. Money or keys should not be exchanged until both the sublicensor and sublicensee received documented approval.

  • Sublicense agreements are between members of the MIT community and are not an agreement with Housing & Residential Services.

  • The minimum time period for sublicensing is 14 days.  Any sublicense request for less than the time period stated above will be denied.

If you are experiencing any difficulties, please email graduatehousing@mit.edu