MDIS — housing guide for new students

October 2026 intake · Suggested move-in: mid-September to early October 2026

What this budget actually rents

No building with prices on this site sits within walking range of this campus. Private rents nearby move with the room type, the building and when you move in — your housing plan re-checks them against what is on the market for your dates.

Where the campus is, and the commute

The nearest MRT station to campus is Queenstown (EW Line), about a 9-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: MDIS is one of the few private institutions with its own student residence. MDIS Residences @ Stirling is at 501 Stirling Road and publishes its main room rates; bookings are subject to availability, with a one-month deposit, S$109 registration fee and typical 3, 6 or 12-month rental periods. The school’s own accommodation page (read 2026-08-22) →
• A private room: A room inside a private unit: Queenstown is a mature HDB area with a few newer condos. Rooms run bigger than in the city, the MRT gets you downtown in one ride, and the evenings are quiet.
• A whole unit, shared: Take a whole unit with classmates: two- and three-bedders are in steady supply here, and you get a whole flat rather than one hostel room.

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

• Margaret Drive — The closest of these — a 5-minute walk · ≈ 5-min walk from campus
• Queenstown — Two minutes to the MRT, with the mall and the wet market on this stretch · ≈ 8-min walk from campus
• Stirling Road — The school hostel is on this same road — easy to start there and move out later · ≈ 10-min walk from 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 MDIS

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.

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