• Campus: It's officially declared to have one of the best campus life amongst the US universities, Austin City: Music capital of the US and one of most livable cities.
• The campus and downtown are next to each other so a lot of activities, restaurants to explore around.

• Whatsapp groups and seniors are the best way to find your housing, rent is around $600-$1000 per month depending on sharing or renting a bedroom for yourself.

• There is everything under the sun in UT Austin except probably the ice-sports, UT Football is huge.
• The university has about 40-50000 students in total.

• I think I'd joined a Whatsapp group from a Telegram group. Then I met some folks, and we decided apartments online before moving. 2B1B apartment: $1650 per month + utilities (total ~$1800 for the entire apartment per month).
• Facilities included: Centralized AC/Heater system and dishwasher (these 2 are standard in every US apt), Gas stove, paid laundry washer/dryer in each floor, paid parking

• It's hard to be involved in a lot of extracurriculars at the grad school level since students are generally busy with getting TAships, internships , etc. but for people who are interested, they have really good sport facilities with almost every sport that you can think of.
• They have a 24/7 library for you to study if needed.
• There are some events organized by the Indian association for major festivals.
• If people are interested in research, there are sufficient professors as well as funding for doing so.

• I had friends. Monthly rent will be around $1000. The apartment will be unfurnished. But you'll have a kitchen, bathrooms and bedroom.

• There are 8 institutions in the University of Texas system: Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Arlington, Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, Permian Basin, Tyler
• There is a common library for the University, and almost each department has its own library. There are tons of sports facilities, including an American football stadium that can accommodate 1 lakh people. There are ample medical services
• There are a plethora of events that happen every day - refer to https://calendar.utexas.edu/
• There are far too many to name - please refer to Google.

• I found my off-campus accommodation by searching through websites like Zillow and Facebook groups, as well as recommendations from senior 
• The rent is around $1500 per month, for a single-room apartment, and has access to a laundry machine in-unit
• The main challenge was finding a place within my budget, but having nice amenities
• Recommendations: Start looking early, join University housing groups on Facebook, and try to find roommates to live in a budget-friendly shared apartment
• My accommodation is about 30 minutes from campus by bus. Most Indian students tend to live closer to campus, in nearby neighborhoods like Hyde Park or Hancock

• 1) UT Austin is spread across 40 Acres of Land has around 20 schools in the campus situated one after other, the College I go to is McCombs school of business and there is Robert Rowling hall for MBA students and Perry-Castaneda Library and many more schools
  2) Library, UHS(University Health Services Building), Gregory Gym(which has almost all sports inside of it)
  3) All festivals including Indian festivals are celebrated on campus namely Diwali, Holi, Christmas etc
  4) Sports like football, swimming, golf, rock climbing, volley ball, squash, badminton and many more sports are available for free using your UT ID card at Gregory Gym and the Recreational Center located on-campus,
• There are many student organization who host events like diwali celebration and holi celebration and there tech related organizations as well who organize hackathons and case competitions

• I contacted my seniors of the program on linkedin and got referred to my current apartment
• My monthly rent is $825 dollars and after utilities and internet it goes to $1000 monthly
• I was confused with rent of apartments as the ones far away costed $650-$700 rent but I choose the one I am living right now because it is close by to college and saves a lot of time in commute
• I would say contact your program seniors as they have lived there for atleast a year and they can help you the best
• My place is 10 mins walking from my school and most of the Indian students stay near by to campus as they are the safest places which are also guarded by UTPD Cars 24/7

• UT Austin has one main campus located in Austin, UT system has multiple colleges located in El Paso, Dallas, San Antonio etc.
• UT Austin has as many as 23 libraries in the campus and multiple sport facilities including 8 gyms and on campus hospital and emergency rooms.
• Major campus festivals include Diwali, Vinaya Chaviti, New Year, Halloween, Holi, Christmas etc. Popular events would be ISS orientation, gone to texas.
• There are lot of extra curricular activities that include swimming, music, dance, painting classes, decoration campus. Student organizations include Austin hindu yuva, Student General body etc.
   

• I found my accommodation from a friend whom I met him in a Whatsapp group. Some of my friends found their accommodation through Facebook groups and seniors.
• Monthly rent is $580 that includes free wifi, pool, gym, bbq and paid laundry. Based on my challenges I would recommend future students to get connected with seniors via linkedin and join as many whatsapp groups as possible to find a better accommodation.
• Most of the Indian students stay very close to campus (Duval villas, Tanglewood, Lantana etc) and my accommodation (Duval villas) is 1.5 mile far from campus.

• I found my accommodation through seniors. But one can also refer to apps like realtor, zillio. These app work better.
• My accommodation was of subpar standard and involved significant security threat. Rent was $2100 for 3 bed room unit ($700 each) plus the utilities. It is a basic housing with air conditioning fridge and dishwasher.
• US has massive pest infestation. Please use certified apps to find any property and check reviews first. Do not trust the realtor or anyone blindly since they get referral bonus for each successful referral.
• My accommodation was 15 min walking from McCombs. Indian students stay based on their college. McCombs students stay scattered in an around the McCombs building

• I found my accommodation through seniors. But one can also refer to apps like realtor, zillio. These app work better.
• My accommodation was of subpar standard and involved significant security threat. Rent was $2100 for 3 bed room unit ($700 each) plus the utilities. It is a basic housing with air conditioning fridge and dishwasher.
• US has massive pest infestation. Please use certified apps to find any property and check reviews first. Do not trust the realtor or anyone blindly since they get referral bonus for each successful referral.
• My accommodation was 15 min walking from McCombs. Indian students stay based on their college. McCombs students stay scattered in an around the McCombs building

UT Austin has one of the best college life. There are a lot events everyday, chances to network with people and enjoy all the festivities.

I am not living in university accommodation.

Very active campus with 60,000 students. lots of activities and great support from campus.

$10,000-$20,000

I loved the clubs and extracurricular I was part of a sorority called Kappa Phi Gamma.

I chose to live in an apartment all 4 years.