Northern Illinois University students will start the school year with a new residence hall on campus that has more than 1,000 rooms.

The new dorm's construction price tag was $80 million. All of the rooms in the dorm are single and students share a bathroom with one other student. There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the NIU campus earlier this week. The residence hall is still unnamed.

The new dorm also has a wireless lounge, exercise area and food court. With NIU's cheapest meal plan it costs students nearly $6,500 a semester to live in the new dorm. Students will start moving in Aug. 23.