boston university also provides specialty houses or specialty floors to students who have particular interests. the common ground house on bay state road is a house designed for those wanting to live in an emphatically multi-background setting. a special application is required prior to general housing decisions in order to be considered for specialty housing. bay state road also has brownstones for students in the college of general studies, management, music, sargent college, education and trustee scholars. there are also specialty floors in large dormitories, such as core curricular program, women in science and engineering, same-sex floors, etc.