How To Apply
Applying for On-Campus Housing
New Undergraduate Students
All newly admitted and re-admitted freshman and sophomore undergraduate students will automatically receive an application for on-campus housing from the Admissions Office. If you have definitely decided that you will be a Pacific student, and we certainly hope you do, you should mail the completed application back to the Pacific Admissions office as soon as possible. If you are applying to live in an on-campus residence, you will also need to send a $200 enrollment deposit to the Admissions Office. If you are applying to live in Burlingham, Gilbert, or Vandervelden, you will need to submit a separate non-refundable $100 application fee with your housing application. Please make the check payable to Pacific University.
New Professional Students
New professional students that have not earned a Bachelor's degree may apply for space in the Vandervelden Court Complex space permitting. Please request a housing application from the Housing Office. This application and a $100 non-refundable application fee must be returned together to be considered for space in this complex. Please make the check payable to Pacific University. Undergraduate students (returning and new) are given priority to space in on campus residence. If any additional spaces are available after those assignments are completed, professional students may apply for these spaces by contacting the Housing Office at (503) 359-2200 or email housing@pacificu.edu.
Current Undergraduate/Professional Students Without a Bachelor's Degree
Each spring (April) a housing lottery is held to give students an opportunity to select new space and their roommate(s) for the next academic year if they choose to remain in on-campus University Housing. Any returning student who is eligible to live off-campus and who chooses not to select on-campus housing during the housing lottery and then seeks it, will not be given confirmation of availability until August.
New freshman and transfer sophomores are assigned to housing based on a combination of factors: the date your enrollment deposit is received by the Admissions Office & the preferences listed on your Housing Application). The earlier the Housing Application is received, the better chance we have of matching you with another student with similar interests. We do guarantee that all students required to live on campus will be assigned housing. Typically, new freshman and sophomore students are assigned to Clark & Walter. These are the buildings that generally have vacancies after the returning students select their housing.
Other transfer students (out of highschool at least two years) are waitlisted for housing based on the date the enrollment deposit is received by the Admissions Office. We also encourage this group of transfer students to begin researching off campus housing in the event that we are unable to accommodate the housing request.
1. Complete the Special Housing Request section on the Housing Application.
2. Complete the forms on the Learning Support Services (LSS) website.
3. Send medical documentation to the LSS Office.