10Rooms available
Resa Blas de Otero Hall of Residence
0.5 mi from centre1 room type
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Bike storage
- Parking
- +3 more
Rooms available
From
€587/month
Europe4 stays listedFrom €587/month3 universities
Student accommodation in Bilbao
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10Rooms available
Resa San Mamés Hall of Residence
0.8 mi from centre6 room types
- Wi-Fi included
- Gym
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- +2 more
Rooms available
From
€811/month
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On enquiry
Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Bilbao
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Bilbao
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
Deusto and San Ignacio
Across the river around the University of Deusto, which makes this the natural student quarter, with lower rents and a short metro into town.
- Livensa Living Bilbaofrom €680/month
Casco Viejo
The medieval old town, seven streets and a market hall, atmospheric outside and small inside. Thick with people at the weekend.
- Resa Blas de Otero Hall of Residencefrom €587/month
Indautxu and Basurto
West of Abando, residential and well served, close to the hospital and about ten minutes from the Guggenheim on foot.
- Resa San Mamés Hall of Residencefrom €811/month
- micampus San Mamésprice on enquiry
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Bilbao actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Biblioteca de Bidebarrieta
Public reading and study space in the old town.
- Bilbao Metro
The core network linking central neighbourhoods, Deusto and routes towards outer campuses.
- Mercado de la Ribera
Large covered food market beside the river in Casco Viejo.
- Doña Casilda park
Major free park between central Bilbao and Deusto.
A few Bilbao buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Resa San Mamés Hall of Residence0.9 miles
Closest to Universidad de Deusto
- Livensa Living Bilbao0.3 miles
Closest to Mondragon Unibertsitatea
- Resa Blas de Otero Hall of Residencefrom €587/month
Lowest listed rent here
- micampus San Mamés5 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Bilbao
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Bilbao spent the twentieth century as a shipbuilding and steel city and the end of it as a byword for post-industrial decline, and then it built the Guggenheim on a derelict riverside and the rest followed. The result is a compact city where the waterfront is twenty five years old and the old town is five hundred. For students the split that matters is institutional: the University of Deusto sits in the city by the river, while the public University of the Basque Country has its main campus out at Leioa, several metro stops down the estuary.
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Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Other student cities in Europe
Comparing options? These are the other cities in Europe where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Bilbao
The metro has two lines running along both banks of the estuary out to the coast, and the stations are the ones Norman Foster designed, which locals call fosteritos. Line 1 reaches Leioa for the public university campus, and a Barik card with a student rate covers metro, tram and bus. Bilbao is compact and the riverside walk from the Guggenheim to the old town is flat and pleasant, but the city sits in a narrow valley so the residential districts climb steeply away from the water. Trains reach Madrid in about five hours, which is slow, and the airport is twenty minutes by bus.
Frequently asked questions
- Everything we list in Bilbao is in Deusto and San Ignacio, Casco Viejo, and Indautxu and Basurto. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- Not one of the 4 buildings we list in Bilbao puts it in writing. That is a gap in what they publish rather than a bill to budget for, and it is worth asking before you compare two rents.