To begin your Housing Application, you must set up Duo multi-factor authentication.

The Upper Class Housing Application is comprised of two steps, which are both required to reserve your room on campus. We recommend saving the dates below in your calendar so you're prepared to complete each step of the application as soon as it opens. Upper Class Housing is limited, so it is important to complete the housing application as soon as possible.

What Type of Upper Class Student Are You?

  • Renewing: Students who are able to renew their current room assignment for another year
  • Returning: Students who are returning to live on campus but are not able to renew their same room
  • New Upper Class: Students who have never lived on campus
  • Transfer: Students who are coming to Kennesaw State University from another institution

The Housing Application for Upper Class students opens on January 8, 2025, at 10:00 AM EST. Please note that you must be fully accepted to the University before you can apply to live on campus.

Students are encouraged to apply for housing as soon as possible to increase the likelihood that they will receive housing as Upper Class Housing is limited. Students must be admitted to Kennesaw State University before they can apply for housing.

Please contact the Talon One Service Center at 470-578-8663 (T-ONE) or ksuhousing@kennesaw.edu for specific information.

Current Upper Class Residents Only (Renewals):

Current residents in Upper Class Housing are eligible to renew their room for the 2025-26 academic year. Renew your room starting January 6, 2025 until February 7, 2025 in the Housing Portal.

If you don’t want to renew but still want to live on campus during the 2025-26 academic year, please apply for Upper Class Housing via the Housing Portal on January 8, 2025 at 10 a.m. However, since we have limited Upper Class housing, we cannot guarantee another room assignment.

 


 

Time tickets for the final step of the Housing Application, Room Selection, will be available on Monday, February 17, 2025. Room Selection begins on Monday, February 24, 2025, for Upper Class students. During this step, students will select a room once their time ticket opens. To complete this step, you must sign the License Agreement and pay the non-refundable $75 Room Booking Fee.

Step-by-Step Room Selection Guide

Anti-Bullying Policy

Housing and Residence Life will not tolerate bullying or cyber bullying, harassment or threatening behaviors from students during the Room Selection process. If you experience any of these behaviors during or after Room Selection from students who are pressuring you to cancel your room assignment, please complete this form, so Housing and Residence Life can get involved. 

Harassing and/or bullying another student is a violation of the KSU Code of Conduct, which all accepted KSU students are responsible for upholding upon admission into the University. Students who are found responsible for inappropriate conduct during the Room Selection process may be moved to another room assignment, could possibly lose their opportunity to live on campus, and/or could face conduct charges with the Department of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity.  

Important Documents

 

Room Selection Frequently Asked Questions

 

    • You can find your Room Selection time ticket in the Housing Portal starting Monday, February 17, 2025. Once logged in, you will see a notification box that shows you your time ticket. You can also select the "2025-26 Application" tab in the gold menu, and you will see a green box with your time ticket.
    • Time tickets for Upper Class students begin on February 24, 2025. Time tickets open in 20-minute intervals during business hours Monday through Friday. Time tickets are determined based on when students signed their License Agreement during the first step of the Housing Application. Each student has been assigned a specific time when they may begin Room Selection. As a reminder, First-Year and Upper Class students are not able to live in the same communities and will only be able to see the available units for their classification whenever their time ticket begins.  

    • Before Room Selection, we recommend that you visit our website and carefully explore each community. Review the virtual tours, community and room amenities, and pricing of each option. Communicate with your preferred roommate (if applicable) and make a list of your top three community choices before Room Selection begins, so you know what to look for in the Housing Portal.

    • Our floor plans are useful guides to give you an idea about what your space will look like, but they are not exact. For example, in some units, the bedrooms may be flipped depending on the orientation of the rooms. You may view a virtual tour of each floor plan in our Housing Options section.
    • If you don’t select a bed and we run out of available rooms, you will need to place yourself waitlist. You will not be guaranteed a bed if you do not select one during Room Selection.
    • If we no longer have rooms available for your gender, classification or campus, we will open a waitlist. Students may add themselves to the waitlist; Housing and Residence Life does not place students on a waitlist automatically. There is no cost to add yourself to the waitlist. If a room becomes available, a Housing staff member will reach out to you via phone or email with an offer for the next available bed. You have 48 hours to accept the offer.
    • If you are an Upper Class student, you can see available Upper Class beds on either campus.
    • Upper Class students are not able to choose their roommate because of the limited availability of rooms and the unlikely chance of finding a room pair after current Upper Class students renew.
    • Students have 48 hours after selecting or being placed into a room to pay their $75 Room Booking Fee. If you do not pay this fee within 48 hours, your reservation will be dropped, and your room will go back into the available room pool. We encourage you to pay this fee as soon as possible.
    • To cancel your existing booking in an attempt to book a different room, please email your request to talonone@kennesaw.edu from your KSU student email account. You will be asked to complete a form indicating your acceptance of the terms for cancelling your existing booking. Please note that the room you hope to select may not be available once your booking is cancelled and you are able to log back in to select a new room.

Application Fees

Type of Student Non-Refundable Application Initiation Fee Room Booking Fee Total Due
First-Time, Full-Time Student (including Transfer students) $200 due at the completion of the Housing Application $75 due to confirm room selection once student has selected a room $275
Returning Upper Class Students $0 $75 due to confirm room selection once student has selected a room $75
Returning Student Renewing Their Room $0 $0 due at time off room booking $0

*All students will be assessed a $100 Residence Life Fee when their semester rent charges are applied in OwlExpress.