What is the different "dorm" and "Housing" ?

Question

Is it same mean?

I want to go to the college or university that has a dorm.

I found that word "housing".

what is it?

and

Room & Board (on-campus) $7,850

is above fee of dorm?

Answer 1

Housing is often used as a term that encompasses the University-operated housing-dorms, apartments(Some schools do not have this), etc.  The cost for this is often called Room & Board (Usually also includes the price of a meal plan of some sort).

I should specify when I say apartments, I am referring to some that my university runs.  Of course there are other off-campus apartments too.

Answer 2

Housing is what an college or university provides to students who pay a fee to live on campus.  A dorm is the most common name of the individual building where a student lives. (Freshman housing is dorms for freshmen only, Coed housing has both men and women living in the same dorm (but usually on separate floors - not sharing the same room). Many dorms are named after someone or something - such as the John F. Kennedy dorm.  

Room and Board is the combined cost of living in a dorm (room) and having a meal plan (board) that allows you to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in either a specific cafeteria or at any eating place on campus.

Make sense?

good luck

Answer 3

Normally the "dorm" is part of University Housing. Most university have dorms for students to live in.. and I know others require students to live in the dorms. The on-campus fee is probably for a dorm.. most apartments or houses at universities are considered off campus.