Move-In Day Time Slots

Time Slots

NDSU move-in day is Saturday, August 23, from 8 am - 1 pm. To help ease traffic concerns and create a smooth move-in experience, students will select a 30-minute arrival time slot for move-in. Please note that you are expected to arrive anytime within that 30-minute timeframe; you are not expected to completely move in your belongings during that time frame.

If you are a member of a campus group that requires early move-in (Band, Athletics, International Students, campus employees, etc.), your arrival is being scheduled by your group sponsor/coach/supervisor. You should not use the housing portal to select a time slot.

Select Your Time Slot

Selection will become available at 9 am on Monday, July 14, and will close on Monday, August 18. Students should log in to their housing portal and select their preferred time slot. If you need to cancel or change your move-in time slot, log in to your housing portal and select a new time.

Housing Portal

FAQs

Any new incoming first-year student, or new transfer student, who is not part of a designated early arrival group will sign up for a move-in time slot for August 23.

Certain groups have a coordinated early move-in day, such as band members, athletes, and on-campus student workers. If you are part of one of these groups, reach out to your coach/supervisor to get details.

To increase efficiency on move-in day, students will spread out their arrival times over four hours. It is much simpler to have 25 students arrive in 30-minute increments than it is to have 200 students show up at the same time.

Starting Monday, July 14, students will be able to log into their housing portal and select their arrival time slots.

Students may choose to arrive in one of nine time slots:
8:00 am to 8:29 am, 8:30 am to 8:59 am, 9:00 am to 9:29 am and so on. The last selection time will be at 12:00 pm.

No. Students can arrive any time during the selected time slot. They have a full 30-minute window in which they may arrive on campus.

Not at all. The selected time slot is a window of arrival time. Students may take as long as needed to complete the move-in process.

Students may change their selected time (based on availability) up through Friday, August 22. Times are not changeable once move-in day arrives.

Once all openings in a particular time slot fill, it will no longer be visible in the dropdown menu. However, since students are free to make changes up through the day before arrival, a time slot that is currently full may have openings later due to students switching their arrival times. Students are welcome to check back in their housing portal any time to see if a space in a preferred time slot is available.

No worries. Life happens. If someone doesn’t get to campus during their selected time, it’s perfectly fine to arrive later. Students who arrive late will not be turned away.