Future Residents

The Housing Application Process

(NOTE: This link takes you to the UA portal, mybama. At the top of the screen you will see a Student Tab. The link to the Online residence housing application is under the Students Tab in the Student Services section.) The housing application may not be available on Sunday mornings from 8 am to 12 pm due to system maintenance.

View The Housing Application Contract

Due to the tremendous demand, we are no longer accepting new applications for on-campus housing for Fall 2008. To assist you in your search for off-campus housing, please visit http://housing.ua.edu/offcampus or call the Off-Campus Hotline at 205-348-7107.

Online Housing Application:

(You must be admitted to the UA in order to apply for housing. You will need your bama username and password. If you do not know your username and password you can get the information here. The housing application is a 3-step process. You will complete your preferences information in the first part (including community, roommate and living-learning community requests), electronially sign your contract in the second part, and complete the payment in the third part. The housing application will not be saved until all 3 parts have been completed. If you do not complete your entired application (all 3 parts) within 30 minutes, you will lose any information you have entered.

Online Living-Learning Community Application:

If you are applying for the Blount Living-Learning Community, please apply to the Blount program application (in addition to requesting it on your housing application).

If you are applying for the Honors College Community, please apply to the Honors College (in addition to requesting it on your housing application).

If you would like to request to live in one of our living-learning community residence halls, you can do this from within the online housing application (using the Apply For Online Housing link at the top of this page). Under the community preference section, you would answer "Yes" to the question "Would you like to participate in a living-learning community?". An illustration is provided below:

Once you answer yes to this question, a drop-down menu box appears asking you to choose which living-learning community you would like to participate in, as illustrated below:

Housing Contract:

You must sign our Nine Month Residence Hall Contract in order for your application to be processed. You will sign the contract electronically when you complete the online application. To view a copy of the contract, please click here.

Mailed Applications:
If you mail in an application, the last page of your application should be our Ninth Month Residence Hall Contract. You may sign and mail this in with the application and prepayment.