We look forward to being your new home for the spring 2023 academic semester. Spring housing assignments will fill vacancies that are created at the end of the fall semester. First-year students, defined as those graduating from high school during 2022, are required to live in the residence halls, regardless of classification. Those who are not defined as first-year can also consider apartment style campus housing or off-campus housing options.

The process for assigning housing will be a random selection of applications received from Oct. 17 (9 a.m. MT) - Nov. 28. Assignments for those who applied in this date window will be communicated by Dec. 20 if they have housing and Dec. 23 if we had to start a waitlist. 

Applications completed after Nov. 28 may be placed on a waitlist and will be assigned by date priority, as space is available. Students will be notified via their Colorado.edu email by Dec. 23 if they are placed on a waitlist. Students placed on a housing waitlist would be able to seek off-campus housing once they have received such communication from University Housing. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid potential delays in your housing assignment.

In order to apply for spring 2023 housing:

  • You must confirm your intent to enroll and activate your Identikey before you can login into MyCULiving and apply for housing.
  • You must apply by Nov. 28 to be given priority consideration for the random selection process.
  • We do have a first-year live-on requirement for our residence halls, and due to space availability, we do not guarantee spring housing nor an assignment to any particular building, type of accommodation or with a specific roommate in any of our housing options.
  • The housing application includes a $250 deposit and a $50 non-refundable application fee totaling $300. Any student who previously paid a 2022-23 $50 application fee will be exempt from this fee.*

*Tuition and fees are just one part of the overall cost to attend CU Boulder. The full cost of attendance for an academic year could include expenses such as on-campus housing and food, books and supplies, and items that are not billed by the university, such as personal expenses, transportation and medical insurance. View the full cost of attendance.

Once a student has signed the contract, submitted an application fee and a deposit is on file, they are held to the terms of the contract.