Housing Requirement
All full-time, undergraduate, degree-seeking, unmarried students (without children residing with them) are eligible to live in campus housing.
Belmont University requires all full-time, undergraduate students with fewer than 60 credit hours by the start of the fall semester to live in campus housing unless the student is:
- 21 years of age or over by the first day of classes in August;
- married and/or has children residing with him/her; OR
- living with parents, legal guardians, grandparents, or siblings over the age of 25 while attending Belmont.
Transfer students are also exempt from the live-on requirement.
New housing assignments are granted by prioritizing our incoming new freshmen first, followed by transfer students and then current off-campus students looking to move into campus housing.
Belmont reserves the right to modify the enforcement of the housing requirement based on the university’s educational and/or administrative needs and purposes.
All on-campus residents must agree to and abide by the Housing Occupancy Agreement.
2024-25 Housing Occupancy Agreement
2025-2026 Housing Occupancy Agreement (NEW)
All exemption requests must be approved through the Residence Life Office. For any questions regarding your housing assignment, billing, or housing exemptions, please email housing@belmont.edu.
Fall 2025 Housing Assignment Updates
Freshman Assignments
Housing is available for freshmen in freshman residence halls on a first come, first serve basis as we also guarantee housing for returning sophomores and provide options for upperclassmen who desire to stay on campus. To secure your spot in an on-campus residence hall, we encourage you to pay your enrollment deposit and complete your online housing application as soon as possible. The date of submission of the housing application will be used to determine the order of the assignment.
May 1 is the priority deadline for our first round of freshman housing assignments (and to guarantee your requested roommate). We will continue to accept applications and house student throughout the summer as space allows. If capacity is reached, we will create a waitlist for students who pay their deposit and complete the housing application and will accommodate as many first-year students on campus as possible.
Transfer Student Assignments
Because of limited availability, first-choice style of housing is not guaranteed for transfer students, and we may be unable to honor roommate requests. However, if housing is available, the date of application for housing will be used to set the order within each grouping. Upperclassman transfer students will be housed in available upperclassman housing after the Housing Renewal Process for current students in April. Transfer students not housed during the first round of transfer student assignments will be made an offer of housing in freshman complexes after freshmen are assigned in early June. Remaining unhoused graduate students will be placed on a waitlist for available housing as it becomes available throughout the summer.
Students Returning to On-Campus Housing (Off- to On-Campus)
Because of limited availability, housing is not guaranteed for current students wishing to move on campus after previously living off-campus. However, if housing is available, the date of application for housing will be used to set the order of assignment. We may be able to make an offer of housing beginning mid-summer. You are welcome to apply and call our office to determine your potential wait for available housing.
Your Housing Assignment
Below you will find some information concerning your housing assignment as well as additional resources to help you learn more about Residence Life at Belmont.
1. Once you have been officially accepted to the university, the Admissions office will send you an email explaining how to pay your Enrollment deposit.
2. After the Enrollment deposit is received, you will automatically receive an email explaining how to apply for housing through your myBelmont account using the online Housing Application.
3. Assignments are made based on the date the housing application is COMPLETED and by the room style preferences indicated on the form. All assignments are contingent on space availability. Special attention is given to preferences and requests; however, no assignment based solely on the the resident's request is guaranteed. Roommate requests will always take priority over room style preferences.
4. All roommate requests must be mutual and received by the Residence Life office by May 1. You may submit these by pairing as a roommate group within the online housing application.
5. From the $250 enrollment deposit, $100 will be deducted to serve as a non-refundable housing application fee.
Assignments for the Fall semester are usually completed during the first week of June. Assignments for the Spring semester are usually completed during the first week of December. Please note that if your application is received after these dates, you will receive your assignment at a later date.
You can see your assignment and roommate information, including their address, telephone, and Belmont email, by logging onto your MyBelmont account and clicking on the Housing icon from the Launch Pad. You will be getting additional information from us before you arrive; including dining information, offers from some of our campus partners about products like linens and personal property insurance, as well as instructions about Move-In Day.
All students living in a residence hall are required to purchase a meal plan per the Housing Occupancy Agreement. All residential students will be assigned the minimum required meal plan option (see below) if no selection is made. If you would like to change your meal plan, you can do so through your myBelmont account under the housing tab. You may change your meal plan until the end of the drop/add period of the fall semester, but after that time you cannot change your meal plan until the next academic year.
Meal Plan Options for All Students
ALL ACCESS: Unlimited meal credits + 150 Declining Points
ANYTIME PLAN 15: 15 meals/week + 325 Declining Points (minimum required for all freshman students)
Meal Plan Options for Upperclassmen Only
BLOCK 125: 125 meals/semester + 475 Declining Points (minimum required for all upperclassman complexes)
Meal Plan Options for Commuting Students Only*
BLOCK 75: 75 meals/semester + 100 Declining Points
Dining Dollars are loaded onto the students ID card and it works much like a "check card". Dining Dollars will roll over from fall to spring semester but must be used by the end of the spring semester or those funds will be lost. Additional funds, called Bruin Bucks, can be billed to your student account up until the last day of drop/add. After that, they must be purchased through Belmont Central. Bruin Bucks roll over semester to semester until the students graduates and can be refunded if there is any left on the student's account upon graduation. Bruin Bucks can also be used at off campus locations. Click here for an updated list of merchants.
*Commuter meal plans are purchased for the entire academic year and billed per semester.
Dietary Accommodations
Belmont University dining services offer food selections to meet a variety of diets and dietary needs. Students with special dietary needs are expected to communicate their needs and restrictions to the Dining Team. Students with food allergies are strongly encouraged to contact Julia Green (julia.green@sodexo.com), campus dietitian, to discuss safe food options on campus. Special circumstances (including temporary and medical needs) should be processed through the Office of Accessibility Services to determine if further modifications/accommodations are needed.
Dining Services
The Office of Student Financial Services provides a listing of pricing. This can be found at on the cost estimators page.
If you have a need that rises to the level of a disability accommodation, all requests and documentation must be submitted to the Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) for review. Disability accommodation requests should be submitted as early as possible and must be received prior to the first day of classes for the semester to be considered for the current semester. Requests received after the first day of classes will be considered on an individual basis. It is important to note that OAS has specific deadlines, documentation requirements, and a process to review requests. For questions please contact the OAS office directly at accessibility.services@belmont.edu. Students approved for accessibility services will have an accommodation recommendation made by the OAS office to Residence Life concerning the request and help determine if the request can be accommodated within our residential facilities.