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Continuing Student Housing
Updated Dec. 4, 2025
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Live steps away from classes, friends, recreation, and dining fully furnished rooms. Campus housing is all inclusive, with maintenance, utilities, WiFi, SpectrumU and community amenities included. Choose from expanded room configurations in campus apartments or our new suite-style housing. All communities offer same gender, mixed gender, queer-affirming, and Pride spaces, ensuring a safe, welcoming and inclusive Mustang experience.
Room Types
Most rooms are double suites (bunked beds) or standard doubles. We also offer some single rooms. Sign up as an individual interested in meeting new people or choose up to five roommates — two-, three-, four-, five- or six-person groups.
Poly Canyon Village
Apartment for six. Three shared bedrooms with a bunked bed in each room.
Apartment for six. Four bedrooms: two single bedrooms and two standard (not bunked) bedrooms.
Apartment for five. Five single bedrooms.
Apartment for four. Four single bedrooms.
Cerro Vista Apartments
Apartment for four. Four single bedrooms.
New Suite-Style Housing
Suite for six. Three bedrooms, each with two standard double beds. Two bathrooms in each suite. Depending on demand, some suites with bunked beds may come available.
How to Secure Housing
Sign up in your Housing Portal on MyCalPoly. Visit our FAQs page for answers to specific questions.
Required Students
Students who are part of our required two-year housing program are required to live in campus housing for two years.
Step 1: Sign up (Jan. 29-March 15)
Housing Application
Complete the form, make your initial payment and submit. Check for the email confirmation which confirms you have submitted. You can edit your application preferences until March 15.
Step 2: Add Roommates March 2-15
Request any roommates from those who have submitted a completed application by searching for their names. Make your request in your application. All requests must be mutually confirmed.
Step 3: Finalize Application Preferences by March 15
Submit your housing application and/or finalize any edits by March 15. Students who submit by or on this date are eligible to participate in room selection, which allows you to choose your own space.
Step 4: Choose Your Space April 14-30
Eligible students — those who submitted their application by March 15 — select their rooms. Check your Cal Poly email regularly for a message with your appointment date and time and further instructions.
Selections are made by lottery, based on group size — six-person groups go first, followed by smaller groups and then individuals. Spaces shown will be in your Residential Learning Community (RLC). Preferences and roommate pairings are not guaranteed. If your preferred option fills, you’ll see other available spaces.
Step 5: Change Rooms May 5-July 22
Students who did not sign up for housing by March 15 can now participate in room selection. Students who have selected a space previously can view all available spaces - regardless of RLC — and switch into a different space. You can switch as often as you wish.
Step 6: Prep for Fall
- July (TBA): Last day to cancel housing
- July (TBA): Reserve your Mustang Move-In appointment
- Aug. 1: View your housing fees
- TBA: Make your first housing payment
- August (TBA): Mustang Move-In for continuing students
Or Request an Exemption
Off-Campus Housing Exemption Opens Jan. 8
Required students who wish to live off campus may apply for an exemption starting Jan. 8. Decisions are sent to your Cal Poly email. The exemption process may close at any time, so early submission is recommended. Review exemption criteria here.
All Other Students
Continuing students who are not required to live on campus can join the initial interest list for next year’s campus housing.
Step 1: Join the Initial Interest List Feb. 12-16
Add your name to our initial interest list, available 9 a.m. Feb. 12-11:59 p.m., Feb. 16. Spaces are awarded by lottery.
Step 2: Join the Second Interest List starting Feb. 20 (if unable to secure a space via Step 1)
If you did not secure housing through the initial interest list, you can add your name to the second interest list starting 9 a.m., Feb. 20. Spaces are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Offers expire within 48 hours.
Step 3: Add Roommates March 2-15
Request any roommates from those who have submitted a completed application by searching for their names. Make your request in your application. All requests must be mutually confirmed.
Step 4: Choose your space from April 14-30
Eligible students — those who submitted their application by March 15 — select their rooms. Check your Cal Poly email regularly for a message with your appointment date and time and further instructions.
Selections are made by lottery, based on group size — six-person groups go first, followed by smaller groups and then individuals. Spaces shown will be in your Residential Learning Community (RLC). Preferences and roommate pairings are not guaranteed. If your preferred option fills, you’ll see other available spaces.
Step 5: Change Rooms May 5-July 22
Students who did not sign up for housing by March 15 can now participate in room selection. Students who have selected a space previously can view all available spaces — regardless of RLC — and switch into a different space. You can switch as often as you wish.
Step 6: Prep for Fall
- July (TBA): Last day to cancel housing
- July (TBA): Reserve your Mustang Move-In appointment
- Aug. 1: View your housing fees
- TBA: Make your first housing payment
- August (TBA): Mustang Move-In for continuing students
Off-Campus Housing
Students who are not required to live on campus should begin their off-campus housing search early. Explore off-campus housing options and renter resources here.
Cancellations
The Student Housing License Agreement is a binding contract for the full academic year. Students are expected to honor it for the entire term.
If you plan to leave the University or vacate housing for an approved and verified reason, you must submit the online Housing Cancellation Form to University Housing in writing. All cancellation details and instructions are available here.
