Welcome to UNH!
We look forward to meeting you on campus and are excited that you are joining the UNH community! Transfer students who are required to or interested in living on campus must complete a housing application for the term in which they are starting at UNH. Continue reviewing information on this page for important details and instructions.
Do you have a housing requirement?
New transfer students, who are under the age of 21, have an on-campus housing requirement at UNH. Transfer students may or may not have experience living on campus at another institution of higher education that can apply towards their UNH housing requirement. Please review the different scenarios below to determine which applies to you.
If you are 21 years of age or will be 21 years of age by the first day of the semester in which you start at UNH: You do not have a housing requirement. Students without a housing requirement are welcome to live on campus and can submit a housing application for assignment.
Has Housing Requirement
Transfer students in the following situations are required to live on campus at UNH until they turn 21 years of age or have reached four semesters of on-campus housing (including semesters at a previous institution).
- If you have not lived in on-campus housing at a previous institution of higher education
- If you lived in on-campus housing at a previous institution for one, two or three semesters
Students who meet either of the situations above are required to live on campus and need to either submit a housing application or request an exemption to the housing requirement.
Does Not Have Housing Requirement
Transfer students who have lived on campus at a previous institution of housing education for four semesters do not have a housing requirement with UNH. However, UNH does not receive record of previous housing and transfer students under the age of 21 will by default be identified in our system as having a housing requirement. Transfer students in this situation need to complete a housing requirement exemption request to notify us of their previous experience and request to have their housing requirement recorded as complete.
Students who do not have a housing requirement are welcome to live on campus if they are interested in doing so. Simply complete the housing application (instructions below) in the Housing Portal.
Submitting an Application
Submitting a housing application is easy and is completed online in the . While there is not a deadline for transfer students to apply for housing, we encourage submission of a housing application as soon as possible to ensure the application is in our queue to be processed.
- Log in to the with your USNH account (learn how to activate your account in the New Student Checklist)
- Choose "Housing Applications" from the menu
- Locate the housing application for the term in which you'd like to apply and choose "Apply"
- Complete the application in full (be sure to navigate all the way to the end of the application in order to submit the application)
Receiving a Housing Assignment or Offer
The final page of the application will provide some detail regarding when you should expect to hear from us regarding a housing assignment (if you have a housing requirement) or a housing offer (if you do not have a housing requirement). All transfer students are hand assigned and assignments generally happen on a rolling basis.
- If you have a housing requirement: You will receive a housing assignment.
- If you do not have a housing requirement: You will receive a housing offer, which you need to either accept or decline. Please review and respond in a timely manner, as the offer will have a deadline in which you need to respond by.
Please note that we try our best to assign housing based on the preferences you submit in your application. We cannot guarantee that your housing assignment or offer will match your preferences.
What You Need to Submit a Housing Application
- USNH login credentials (to log into the Housing Portal)
- If under 18 years of age at the time of completing the application, you must have contact information (email) for an individual who is over 18 who can sign the Room & Board Agreement on your behalf
- Contact information for yourself
- Contact information for an emergency contact
- General information about yourself for your roommate profile
- Whether you want to opt into
- Name/email of students you want to live with
- An idea of which type of housing you are interested in - you'll provide preferences!
