SHRM College — housing guide for new students

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

What this budget actually rents

• Budget S$900–1,100 — Burlington Square Common room · shared bathroom S$1,000–1,300; Sunshine Plaza Common room · shared bathroom S$1,050–1,350; The Bencoolen Common room · shared bathroom S$1,100–1,400
• Budget S$1,200–1,500 — Sunshine Plaza Large common room S$1,200–1,500; Parc Emily Common room · shared bathroom S$1,200–1,500; Sophia Hills Common room · shared bathroom S$1,300–1,600; Parc Emily Large common room S$1,350–1,650
• Budget S$1,700+ — Sophia Hills Master room · en-suite S$1,900–2,400; The Bencoolen 2-bedroom & up · whole unit S$3,200–4,200; Sophia Hills Studio · en-suite + kitchen S$3,300–4,100; Burlington Square 2-bedroom & up · whole unit S$3,300–4,200

Buildings within a 20-minute walk of this campus. Room rents come mainly from current public listings; official rental data is used to place the area's overall level · updated August 2026. Actual rent moves with the room type, the building, when you move in and how long you take it for.

Where the campus is, and the commute

The nearest MRT station to campus is Fort Canning (DT Line), about a 6-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: SHRM does not run its own hostel, but staff assist international students with student-hostel arrangements and brief them on current rates and rental considerations. Current partner hostels and live prices should be confirmed with the school when applying. The school’s own accommodation page (read 2026-08-22) →
• A private room: A room inside a private unit: the campus sits up on Oxley Rise in a quiet residential pocket, ten minutes from the Dhoby Ghaut and Sophia stretch.
• A whole unit, shared: Take a whole unit with classmates: whole units here run large and pricey, so groups of three or more are the usual shape.

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

• Sophia — The closest of these — a 9-minute walk, and on the same hill · ≈ 9-min walk from campus
• Bencoolen — A 12-minute walk, and where the MRT and the hawker food are thickest · ≈ 12-min walk from campus
• Little India — A bigger room for the same budget, and the cheapest place to buy daily things · ≈ 13-min walk from campus
• Rochor — A notch cheaper — a longer walk, or one MRT stop · ≈ 15-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 SHRM College

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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