New Freshmen Housing Contract

If you have questions about UCSB's response to the pandemic and how it might affect your housing in the fall, please visit our COVID-19 information page for more information.

UC Santa Barbara takes great pride in providing an enriching student housing experience for our students. Under normal circumstances, we offer housing guarantees to a large percentage of our student population. However, it is not possible for us to know whether the current public health crisis will allow us to maintain normal operations in undergraduate student housing when the fall quarter begins.  Consequently, like many universities across the country, we cannot offer a housing guarantee at this time.

Planning efforts are underway to bring students, faculty, and staff back to campus this fall, but those decisions will be guided by public health guidelines and as well as considerations for the health and well-being of our community. We are planning a high-quality curriculum that will meet the needs of our students and fulfill our academic mission. Although we do not yet know the exact mix of in-person and remote classes that we will deliver in the fall as we begin instruction for the 2020-21 academic year, we are committed to housing students on campus to the maximum extent possible. It will be some time before we know more precisely how many students we can safely accommodate in our housing units.  We will send out an undergraduate student notification as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience and understanding

 Here are the deadlines for incoming freshman in 2020-21: 
important info

March 17, 2020 - May 15, 2020
  • Submit UCSB Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) by the deadline to be eligible to complete a residence hall application (below).
    • Students should register for a UCSBNet ID, but while they are waiting for this to activate they can access the Freshmen Housing process using the Pre-UCSBNet ID link below the UCSBNet ID login on the login page for housing.  
  • Deadline to complete the residence hall application with priority consideration is May 15, 2020 at 4:00pm*.  
  • There is no application fee.
  • We anticipate that we will have an update about the status of applications by June 19, 2020.
  • If you have applied to live in University Housing,  you should receive an email at the conclusion of the process.
  • Please check your email account directly and frequently so that you don’t miss any important messages from UCSB. It may not be reliable to forward your U-Mail to an alternate e-mail (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.). If you don’t receive a confirmation email from us within a few minutes of submitting your application, check your spam and trash folders. 
  • If you're participating in the Freshman Summer Start Program (FSSP), please visit the FSSP page for more information. 

*Freshmen who are admitted after May 15 are able to qualify for priority housing consideration within 5 days of their SIR date.  

June 19, 2020 - July 23, 2020
  • Updated information about the freshmen roommate process will be sent out by June 19, 2020.
Questions?
Remember...
  • You must SIR before completing your housing application. 
  • Please set up your UCSBNet ID and password at the earliest opportunity as after this is set up that will become the default email address for communications from our office.  

If you have any questions about the housing application process, please contact our office:

(805) 893-4371 or housinginfo@housing.ucsb.edu 

Current assignments for Freshmen are in process. Freshmen interested in a 2020-21 Housing Application should contact the University & Community Housing Services at housinginfo@housing.ucsb.edu.

 
If you have signed a contract for the 2020-21 academic year you can use the button below to request to cancel your 2020-21 housing contract. After December 21 contract holders may be charged the $350 cancellation fee. 
 

 

The 2021 Winter-Spring Contract Process Application date has been delayed from October 7 to November 16 as we assess our ability to open and at what capacity. You may apply for housing on that date.  

Winter-Spring Housing Opens November 16, 2020

 

To inquire about gender inclusive housing options available for students that identify as trans* or non-binary, please contact Mario Muñoz, University & Community Housing Services, at mmunoz@housing.ucsb.edu.