They're here! Over 16,500 students move into campus housing
Get a peek inside the newest, arts-inspired residence hall

By Mary Beth Faller, ASU News
August 17, 2025

A tsunami of shower caddies and extra-long sheets hit Arizona State University over the past few days, as more than 16,500 students moved into campus housing to start the fall semester. Classes begin on Thursday.

ASU has 25 residence halls across its four metro Phoenix campuses. Nearly 13,000 students took up residence on the Tempe campus, with about 1,800 at the Downtown Phoenix campus and more than 1,000 each at the Polytechnic and West Valley locations.

On the Tempe campus, more than 800 first-year students will be living in the new seven-story residence hall on Mill Avenue, which serves Sun Devils studying with the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, and the College of Health Solutions. It’s the first new dorm on the Tempe campus since 2017.

The new residence hall, between Mill and Myrtle avenues and ninth and 10th streets, is steps away from ASU Gammage, the Music Building, the Nelson Fine Arts Center, the Art Building, Design North and Design South.

The building, with suite-style rooms, also features dining, classroom and office spaces, and indoor-outdoor common areas. The 264,974-square-foot structure — including 31,196 square feet of academic and office space — was completed in July.

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It was designed with the arts in mind. Besides quiet study rooms, communal space and a fully equipped kitchen, the residence includes:

Creative spaces, including a paper-making studio and a dance studio.

Indoor and outdoor student art gallery spaces.

The iStage, a research lab and immersive performance space that’s part of The GAME School, which educates the next generation of learners and empowers them with “technofluency” in games, arts, media and engineering.

Take a look inside the spaces for learning and creating in the gallery below.

“We are excited to welcome our ASU students into our newest residence hall in Tempe — a space designed to inspire collaboration, connection and creativity,” said Christiana Sletten, assistant vice president for student services and university housing.

“Like our other residential college communities, it will be a cornerstone for student academic and career success, creating meaningful experiences within the Sun Devil community and contributing to the vibrant spirit of ASU.”

Explore more of the new Mill Avenue residence hall in the video below, as Herberger Institute Dean Renée Cheng and students Rajvir Singh and Vanessa Longoria toured the spaces this summer.

(Video: {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qywfz5OPFs})

This story originally appeared on ASU News.