SHRM College — housing guide for new students
October 2026 intake · Suggested move-in: mid-September to early October 2026
What this budget actually rents
- S$1,000–1,200: where to start looking — Sunshine Plaza Common room · shared bathroom S$1,150–1,800
- S$1,300–1,600: where to start looking — Burlington Square Common room · shared bathroom S$1,300–1,500; The Bencoolen Common room · shared bathroom S$1,300–1,900; Parc Emily Common room · shared bathroom S$1,500–1,800
- S$1,700+: where to start looking — Sophia Hills Common room · shared bathroom S$2,000–2,300; Sunshine Plaza Master room · en-suite S$2,200–2,600; Parc Emily Master room · en-suite S$2,250–2,450; Burlington Square Master room · en-suite S$2,350–2,600
Some room types or individual listings may fall within the band; a building’s overall room range can be higher. 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.
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 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 · nearest tracked home ≈ 9-min walk to campus
- Bencoolen — A 12-minute walk, and where the MRT and the hawker food are thickest · nearest tracked home ≈ 12-min walk to campus
- Little India — A bigger room for the same budget, and the cheapest place to buy daily things · nearest tracked home ≈ 13-min walk to campus
- Rochor — A notch cheaper — a longer walk, or one MRT stop · 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 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.
I’m a SHRM College student · get my housing plan · See a sample housing plan first →
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