> Even in the UK, ...., every undergraduate has always gotten an individual bedroom This is mostly true but not universal - when I was in UG accommodation in t

> Even in the UK, ...., every undergraduate has always gotten an individual bedroom This is mostly true but not universal - when I was in UG accommodation in the mid-2000 it was indeed mostly individual, but there was also some small fraction of shared rooms available, that were a little cheaper than my (probably somewhat subsidised) £50/week individual room.