Returning Residents
Returning Residents have the opportunity to apply, contract and select space. Find essential information here:
Overview
Housing & Residence Life offers housing for returning residents to continue living on campus and provides an Off-Campus Housing Marketplace for KU students to explore housing options in the Lawrence community. Returning residents can select from designated spaces in apartments, scholarship halls, GSP hall and eligible Special Interest Communities. Returning residents will NOT be eligible to select housing in Stouffer Place Apartments or residence halls.
Room selection groups will be assigned through a lottery process. The date/time you complete the housing contract has no impact on your room selection time if completed by 11:59 PM Central Standard Time (CST), December 4, 2024. After the application window closes, the contract will no longer be available.
Key Dates for Returning Residents
| November 13, 2024 | Application Opens |
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| November 14, 2024 | Beginning at 8:00 AM CST, previous residents who do not hold a current contract and are not currently living on campus can log in to the myKU Portal to apply and contract. |
| December 4, 2024 | Deadline to Apply and Contract |
| December 5, 2024 | Standby List Available |
December 5-6, 2024 | Room Retention Selection |
| December 9, 2024 | Room Selection Group Numbers Announced |
| December 10, 2024 | Room Selection will Begin |
| January 24, 2025 | Room Selection will End |
| Optional Items | Special Interest Communities Medical Accommodations Request |
| Scholarship Hall Residents | Residents returning to a Scholarship Hall for the 2025-2026 academic year MUST contract by January 24, 2025, at 12:00 PM CST. Room selection will occur at Hall meetings in February. Contracts will be cancelled March 1, 2025, for students not making a room selection. If you do not plan to return to a Scholarship Hall, but would still like on campus housing, please adhere to the timeline provided above. |
Returning Resident FAQs
Current residents in eligible apartment spaces may have the option to retain their current space as part of room selection. Each resident will be responsible for retaining their own space and roommate pull-ins will not be allowed during the retention period. To be eligible:
- Apply and Contract by December 4, 2024, at 11:59 PM CST.
- December 5 at 10 AM CST: Room retention selections begin.
- December 6 at 2 PM CST: Room retention selections end.
Housing & Residence Life has designated bed spaces for upper-class, returning students that differs from first year, freshman spaces to optimize availability with building capacities.
During room selection, returning residents will be able to pull in roommates who currently live on campus, as space allows. To pull in a roommate:
- All roommates must have a complete housing contract for the 2025-2026 academic year.
- Residents will be assigned a six-digit roommate PIN number after contract completion. PIN numbers will be available on the checklist in your housing portal.
- Each roommate will need to provide their preferred name, choice of bed space, PIN number and dining plan (optional for Apartment Living residents) while making a room selection.
Students on the Standby list cannot be pulled in as a roommate.
Housing & Residence Life has designated bed spaces for upper-class, returning students that differs from freshman spaces. If you feel that your circumstance warrants an exception, please call or email the housing office: 785-864-4560, housing@ku.edu.
Exceptions could limit your housing options and require administrative assignment.
A gender inclusive assignment (GIA) is defined as a housing option in which two or more students share a multiple-occupancy space, in mutual agreement, regardless of the students’ sex, gender identity, and/or gender expression. Rates for GIA space are the same as other student rates.
Please call or email housing if you have questions specific to your circumstance. 785-864-4560, housing@ku.edu.
The University of Kansas has partnered with College Pads to provide an Off-Campus Marketplace for KU students to explore housing options in the Lawrence community. Additionally, there is an Off-Campus Housing Fair on November 20, 2024, at the Kansas Memorial Union where students can meet with staff from various off-campus properties and learn more about options available for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Listings in the Off-Campus Marketplace and options at the Off-Campus Housing Fair are NOT covered in the Housing & Residence Life contract.