Returner Sign Up

The opportunity for current students to sign-up to live on-campus for the 2024-2025 Academic Year is called “Returner Sign-Up”. Students who decide to stay on campus next school year have the advantage of choosing exactly where they want to live – from the residence hall to the specific room! 

Returner Sign-Up for AY 24-25 begins on January 17. The first step in the returner sign-up process is to visit the Online Housing Portal to complete your housing contact for the next year.

Timeslots are determined by the date students paid their housing deposit. Housing deposits ($125) are paid once by a student at the time of completion of their housing application.

To look for an available bed during your timeslot day/time or during the time for any current resident, follow the prompts to select a residence hall you're interested in, then select a floor.

• If there are available rooms on that floor, they will be listed and you may select a room and bed.
• If there are no available rooms, then none will be listed.

Remember, the web works in real time and other students will be looking for bed spaces at the same time.

You will also be asked to sign an electronic contract by agreeing to the terms and conditions. If you do not agree, the information will not be saved, a contract will not be assigned, and you will not have a bed in the residence halls for the coming year.

You may change your mind after you have requested a bed space, but please plan to make your final online selection before Friday, July 19, 2024. No requests for change in hall or room assignment will be accepted after this date.

Please keep in mind, the housing portal opens to the incoming freshmen class for Self-Selection on July 2, 2024, potentially limiting the variety of living options after this date. Students who decide to change their initial room choice will receive an email confirmation of their new reservation.

Please go online and request a different meal plan before Friday, July 19, 2024.

All students living on campus are required to have a meal plan (review the housing contract's terms and conditions). If you do not select your own a meal plan, the 21+ plan will be automatically assigned. You may change your meal plan up until Friday, July 19, 2024 for the 24-25 Fall semester.

Yes, unless you are living in a room designated as a single room or have a special housing accommodation approved by the Office of Disability Services. Please keep in mind that there are a limited number of single rooms available on campus.

Absolutely! Students should search for, request, and verify their own roommate. We highly encourage students to have a roommate verified before selecting a bed space.

Students should utilize the roommate search options on the housing portal to help identify potential students also looking for roommates. 

Learn more about finding a roommate.

The person is a currently enrolled student but lives off campus
If the student is currently enrolled at Ball State but doesn't live on campus they will need to have a completed housing contract before they can be requested as a roommate. Once a student has a completed housing contract they will appear in the roommate search and can go through the roommate request and verification process.

The person is an incoming First-Year student
If the person is an incoming First-Year student for the 24-25 Academic Year, it is possible to become roommates. Here is how to make that happen:

• The incoming First-Year student has to have a completed housing contract.

• The returning student has to make the official roommate request on the housing portal by entering the student they want to room with's PIN number (this number is different than the BSU ID number and can be found on the main page of the housing portal).

• First-Year students aren't able to search for or make a roommate request until March 13 but can accept roommate requests (learn more about the First-Year Self-Selection process). After that date they can make roommate requests.

The Ball State University Board of Trustees approves the room and board rates each year. See our room and board rates.

• Returning as an RA/APM for the 24-25 Academic Year 
  Students who plan to return to their current staff role as an RA/APM do not need to act during returner sign-up. Instead, their housing sign-up will be during RA/APM selection. At that time, they will be guided to log-in and sign a new housing contract for the next school year. 
   
• NOT returning as an RA/APM 
  Students who DO NOT plan to return as a staff member for the 2024-2025 Academic Year AND want to live on campus next year ARE eligible to participate in Returner Sign-Up. Additionally, students who DO NOT plan to return as a RA/APM and are NOT living on campus next year, do not need to do anything and should NOT sign a housing contract. 
  
  
• Prospective RA/APMs for the 24-25 Academic Year 
  Students who are hoping to become an RA or an APM should ONLY sign a housing contract and select a room if they want live in the residence halls next year regardless of being selected as an RA/APM.