How to apply for housing

Once admitted to NAU, you will be asked to accept your offer of admission and pay your $350 enrollment deposit (which includes your $100 non-refundable housing application fee). After paying your enrollment deposit, please allow one-two business days for access to the housing application.

Log into the housing portal using your NAU user ID and password. Then follow the step-by-step directions to complete your application.

Note: If you try to log in to apply and receive a Login Error message, your enrollment deposit is still being processed, and access to the application should be available by the next day.

Priority enrollment (PE) is how new incoming NAU students are enrolled in classes prior to attending Orientation. By submitting a PE profile, your academic advisor will know your major, interests, transfer credits, and scheduling restrictions in order to enroll your in your first term of classes. This information will also be used to determine your Residential College.

As a freshman, you’ll live in a Residential College aligned with your academic college at NAU. Living with others who share similar majors or career interests provides engaging opportunities to establish valuable connections and friendships. Residential Colleges feature programs, amenities and academic resources geared toward your college:

• Residential staff focused on supporting your social and academic transition to college
• Faculty connections, in-hall tutoring and college-based study groups
• Activities and events tailored to your major and career interests
• Access to 24/7 computer labs and study areas

You will have the opportunity to search for roommates and select your room in your Residential College.

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In your housing application, you will complete a roommate questionnaire consisting of 11 questions to assist with roommate matching. You also have the option to add a personal bio to help others get to know your personality, interests, hobbies and what you are hoping for in your roommate experience.

Roommate search

Beginning December 1, roommate search will become available in the housing application.

After completing priority enrollment, you will have the option to search, request and accept specific roommate requests (based on space availability), or to accept a non-specific roommate in your Residential College. Your roommate questionnaire is used to determine and display potential best-matched roommates. There are three ways to search for and request roommates:

• Search and Request a Specific Roommate – you can find a specific person by their NAU UserID (abc123) or Web Name (42587)
• Browse Overall Best-Matched Roommates – you can see others whose responses to the roommate questionnaire were similar to yours and are not currently part of a group
• Browse Best-Matched Roommates Based on Specific Questions – you can browse the profiles of others who answered a roommate questionnaire question a certain way and are not currently part of a group

View roommate profiles to see their academic college and personal bios to help  you find compatible roommates in your Residential College. Roommate requests must be accepted prior to room selection in order to pull them in with you. Using the roommate search tool is optional. If you do not request/accept a roommate prior to room selection, another student in your Residential College will select or be placed in the other space(s) in your room.

Roommate groups

The online housing application allows students to create groups of potential roommates. When you initiate a roommate request, a group is automatically created.

For more details on the roommate search and request processes, tips for a successful roommate experience and additional resources, visit our Roommate Success Guide.

You have the opportunity to select your room in the specific residence halls associated with your Residential College. Room selection is based on the dates you complete your housing application and priority enrollment.

Early Applicant Room Selection: December 10 -14

• If you apply for housing and complete Priority Enrollment by December 1, you will be eligible to participate in early applicant room selection for your Residential College.
• Specific room selection times will be based on date of housing application and priority enrollment.
• You will be notified of your designated room selection start time through NAU email by December 7.
• At (or after) your designated time, you can log back into the housing portal to select your room from any space available at that time in your Residential College.
• If you do not choose a room by December 14, you will be reassigned a new room selection time during the general room selection process in the spring.

General Room Selection: February 1 – July 1

• If you apply for housing and/or complete Priority Enrollment after December 1, you will participate in the general room selection for your Residential College.
• Room selection will occur on a monthly basis for each Residential College during designated weeks. Specific room selection times will be based on your date of housing application and priority enrollment.
• You will be notified of your designated room selection start time through NAU email at least a week prior to your start time.
• At (or after) your designated time, you can log back into the housing portal to select your room from any space available at that time in your Residential College.
• Note if you change your major after selecting a room: 
  • if your new major is in the same Residential College, your selected room will not change
  • if your new major is in a different Residential College that is also located in your selected residence hall, your room will not change
  • if your new major is in a different Residential College that is not located in your selected residence hall, your initial room will be cancelled and you will be provided a room selection time to choose a room in your new Residential College during the next designated room selection period for that college.
• Honors College:
  • once admitted to the Honors College, you will be provided a room selection time to choose your room in the Honors College during the next designated room selection period (you must also have completed a housing application and priority enrollment)
  • if you select a room in your Residential College prior to being accepted into the Honors College, your initial room will be will be cancelled and you will be provided a new room selection time to choose a room in the Honors College during the next designated room selection period

Room Assignments – after July 1

• Students applying for housing or completing priority enrollment after May 15 will be assigned a room in mid-July through early August where space is available.

• A $175 housing rent confirmation payment (HRCP) is required to hold your space on campus.  This payment applies toward your first semester rent.
• The HRCP due by May 15, 2019. If you do not make this payment by the due date, your housing application will be cancelled.
• If you apply after May 15, your HRCP will be due within seven (7) days of your application.
• For the 2019-20 housing application, the $175 charge will be posted to your student LOUIE account starting in early March.

If you are an incoming freshman 21 or over, or will turn 21 by the beginning of the academic year, you will be assigned to an upper-division hall. Your specific hall assignment will be based on space availability.