To be considered for University Housing for an academic year, all students must submit an online application by using the CSULB Housing Web Portal. Housing spaces are filled on a date priority basis. Applicants can check their application status on the CSULB Housing Web Portal. Keep checking your status as applicants will be confirmed throughout the summer months. Please note: a signed housing license does not mean you have been offered a space.
Campus Identification (Campus ID) is unique nine-digit number assigned to each student who submitted an application to CSU, Long Beach. Campus ID can be obtained through Student Enrollment Services Department at 562-985-5471.
The initial housing payment is $1,500. Be sure that you submit a completed license agreement, signed with payment before the deadline date. Unfortunately, license agreements that are received without an initial payment will be considered ‘incomplete’ and will not be processed. The initial payment is credited toward your total cost and is not a deposit. You have the option of paying the remaining housing amount in two payments, seven payments (September through April), or you may choose to pay in full.
You can pay online through our secure payment system or send in a personal or cashiers check. Money Orders are not accepted. Make checks payable to CSULB. Be sure to include your name and campus I.D. number on all correspondence and on each check and send it to:
Housing and Residential Life Office
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
You can check your application status online by logging on to the CSULB Housing Web Portal. You will not be contacted by the Housing Office regarding your status. If you have been confirmed for housing, information will be sent to you using your preferred email address. This information will include the dates to log on to the Web Portal for roommate and room selection. If you are on the paid wait list, we are not able to predict how quickly or slowly the paid waiting list may change; it all depends on the number of cancellations we receive throughout the summer and fall. Check the CSULB Housing Web Portal often for updates to your status. You must cancel your housing application using the CSULB Housing Web Portal should you decide you no longer need on-campus housing.
Once you are confirmed a space and decide to cancel for any reason, a $100 cancellation fee is charged. Additionally, if you cancel less than 30 days before that starting date on your license (fall of 2009 is August 30, 2009), there will be pro-rated penalty of approximately $28 per day added to the $100 cancellation fee. For example, if you cancel on August 5, which is 6 days after July 30, 2009 (or, 24 days before the contract begins), you will be charged approximately $168, in addition to the $100 fee.
You MUST cancel online on the CSULB Housing Web Portal. Go to the CSULB Housing Web Portal and follow the instructions to cancel. After the cancellation is completed online, print the refund form, complete it and sign it. Return the refund form as soon as possible to the CSULB Housing and Residential Life Office. Please note that refunds can take up to 60 days to process after we receive the completed refund form.
You must cancel with the Housing Office regardless of the reason (including denied admission), even if you have already cancelled with the Admission / Enrollment Office.
Your initial payment will be mailed back to you in full. Payments will only be processed if a space is offered to you. Be sure to cancel with the Housing Office for any reason (including denied admission), even if you have already cancelled with the Admission or Enrollment Services Office.
The Housing Office hosts a few Off-Campus Workshop/Fair during the months of July and beginning of August to assist students in finding a roommate or a local rental facility. Read more information in the Off-Campus Housing section.
