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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

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DC 20549</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM 8-K</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase"><B>CURRENT
REPORT </B></FONT><B>PURSUANT </B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):
May 16, 2012 (May 16, 2012)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 0.75pt solid">Education
Realty Trust, Inc.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in
Its Charter)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 28%; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; text-align: center; font-weight: bold">Maryland</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 12%; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 24%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center">001-32417</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 16%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 20%; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; font-weight: bold; text-align: center">20-1352180</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-top: black 1pt solid; text-align: center">(Commission File Number)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(IRS Employer</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Identification No.)</P></TD></TR>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>999 South Shady Grove Road, Suite 600
        </B></P>
        <P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Memphis, Tennessee</P></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 16%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>38120</B></P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(Zip Code)</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 0.75pt solid"><B>901-259-2500</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Registrant&rsquo;s Telephone Number, Including
Area Code)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 0.75pt solid">Not
Applicable</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed
Since Last Report)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in">Check the appropriate
box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
following provisions (<I>see </I>General Instruction A.2. below):</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&#9;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Wingdings">o</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&#9;Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</FONT></P>

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material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</FONT></P>

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communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))</FONT></P>

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communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">At the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Education Realty
Trust, Inc. (&ldquo;<B><I>EdR</I></B>&rdquo;) held on May 16, 2012 (the &ldquo;<B><I>Annual Meeting</I></B>&rdquo;), EdR&rsquo;s
stockholders approved each of the proposals presented which are described in more detail in EdR&rsquo;s Definitive Proxy Statement
on Schedule 14A as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 2012. Holders of 89,200,450 shares of EdR&rsquo;s
common stock were present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The following are the voting results on each proposal presented
to EdR&rsquo;s stockholders at the Annual Meeting:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Proposal 1</U>: To elect seven directors to serve until the
2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualify.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 33%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Director</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 17%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Votes For</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 25%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Withheld</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 25%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Broker Non-Votes</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Paul O. Bower</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">84,832,102</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">1,348,534</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Monte J. Barrow</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">86,041,258</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">139,378</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">William J. Cahill, III</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">86,037,597</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">143,039</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Randall L. Churchey</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">85,358,119</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">822,517</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">John L. Ford</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">86,021,671</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">158,965</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Howard A. Silver</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">85,340,444</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">840,192</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt">Wendell W. Weakley</TD>
    <TD STYLE="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">86,013,886</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">166,750</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Proposal 2</U>: To ratify the appointment of Deloitte &amp;
Touche LLP as EdR&rsquo;s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<TR>
    <TD STYLE="width: 31%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Votes For</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 38%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Votes Against</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 31%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Abstentions</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">87,914,392</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">1,276,200</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">9,858</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><U>Proposal 3</U>: To approve, in an advisory (non-binding)
vote, the compensation of EdR&rsquo;s named executive officers.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse">
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="width: 24%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Votes For</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 24%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Votes Against</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 25%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Abstentions</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 27%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">Broker Non-Votes</TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">85,705,917</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">433,615</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">41,104</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center">3,019,814</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SIGNATURE</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in">Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><B>EDUCATION REALTY TRUST, INC.</B></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 40%; text-align: justify">Date: May 16, 2012</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 3%; padding-right: -4.5pt; text-align: justify">By:</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 57%; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; text-align: justify">&nbsp;/s/ Randall H. Brown</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Randall H. Brown</P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
        Officer, </I></P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><I>Treasurer and Secretary</I></P>
        <P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P></TD></TR>
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):
May 16, 2012 (May 16, 2012)
Education
Realty Trust, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in
Its Charter)
Maryland
001-32417
20-1352180
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
999 South Shady Grove Road, Suite 600
Memphis, Tennessee
38120
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
901-259-2500
(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including
Area Code)
Not
Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed
Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate
box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
following provisions (
see
General Instruction A.2. below):
o
Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o
Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Education Realty
Trust, Inc. ("
EdR
") held on May 16, 2012 (the "
Annual Meeting
"), EdR's
stockholders approved each of the proposals presented which are described in more detail in EdR's Definitive Proxy Statement
on Schedule 14A as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 23, 2012. Holders of 89,200,450 shares of EdR's
common stock were present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting.
The following are the voting results on each proposal presented
to EdR's stockholders at the Annual Meeting:
Proposal 1
: To elect seven directors to serve until the
2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualify.
Director
Votes For
Withheld
Broker Non-Votes
Paul O. Bower
84,832,102
1,348,534
3,019,814
Monte J. Barrow
86,041,258
139,378
3,019,814
William J. Cahill, III
86,037,597
143,039
3,019,814
Randall L. Churchey
85,358,119
822,517
3,019,814
John L. Ford
86,021,671
158,965
3,019,814
Howard A. Silver
85,340,444
840,192
3,019,814
Wendell W. Weakley
86,013,886
166,750
3,019,814
Proposal 2
: To ratify the appointment of Deloitte &
Touche LLP as EdR's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012.
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
87,914,392
1,276,200
9,858
Proposal 3
: To approve, in an advisory (non-binding)
vote, the compensation of EdR's named executive officers.
Votes For
Votes Against
Abstentions
Broker Non-Votes
85,705,917
433,615
41,104
3,019,814
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
EDUCATION REALTY TRUST, INC.
Date: May 16, 2012
By:
/s/ Randall H. Brown
Randall H. Brown
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
        Officer,
Treasurer and Secretary