ESSEC Asia-Pacific — housing guide for new students
October 2026 intake · Suggested move-in: mid-September to early October 2026
What this budget actually rents
There are not yet enough room-level rent samples within walking range of this campus for us to publish a stable range. The whole-unit figures below are actual private-residential lettings nearby, to gauge the area’s price level.
Whole-unit rents near campus
Whole-unit rents from URA rental contracts (25q4–26q3), middle 50% of contracts. A guide to the building, not a quote — room rents are a separate question.
Where the campus is, and the commute
The nearest MRT station to campus is one-north (CC Line), about a 5-minute walk. In Singapore what matters is the number of interchanges, not the distance on a map — the same 3 km is a very different journey direct versus with two changes. Every building page carries the actual public-transport route and time to campus.
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Choosing the type of housing
- School / student accommodation: ESSEC has 1,093 student rooms at its Cergy campus in France and fifty in Rabat — but its housing page says that on the Singapore campus what you are offered is help finding a place: a property price chart, a price guide and a list of suggested rental sites and providers. There is no residence of its own. Every ESSEC student in Singapore rents privately. The school’s own accommodation page (read 2026-08-22) →
- A private room: A room inside a private unit: the campus sits in the Nepal Hill business park, and the one-north apartments are within a few minutes’ walk. Newer stock here, at upper-middle prices.
- A whole unit, shared: Take a whole unit with classmates: one-year master’s cohorts share units here routinely, and it saves the most commuting time.
Sharing a whole unit is not automatically cheaper than a single room, nor automatically dearer. What it buys is the whole place, roommates you chose, and more freedom in how you live. Whether it works out comes down to the headcount and the actual whole-unit rent at the time — your housing plan works that through for your case.
Areas worth looking at
- Buona Vista — A 2-minute walk to campus — the closest of these · nearest tracked home ≈ 2-min walk to campus
- one-north — A 3-minute walk, on the Circle Line side · nearest tracked home ≈ 3-min walk to campus
- Holland Village — A 15-minute walk, and the easiest of these for eating out · nearest tracked home ≈ 15-min walk to campus
Three traps to avoid first
- Read the lease before you pay anything. If someone wants a deposit before showing you the tenancy agreement, stop there.
- Getting your deposit back comes down to the move-in inventory — photograph every item on the day you move in.
- There is a legal cap on how many people may occupy a unit. Confirm it before sharing; do not just count bedrooms.
The full anti-scam checklist →
A housing plan for ESSEC Asia-Pacific
What you get is not a pile of listings but a plan you can decide from: for your school, your intake, your move-in date and your budget, it puts student accommodation, a private room and a shared whole unit side by side — rent, commute, lease term, utilities, the total for the year, the risks and a recommendation.
I’m a ESSEC Asia-Pacific student · get my housing plan · See a sample housing plan first →
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