We're ready to help you find housing, get moved in and figure out what else you need during your time here at Lipscomb.
For many of you, some of your greatest memories of Lipscomb will be those made while living on campus. Here, you're part of a tight-knit community where friendships made will last a lifetime. So explore what we have to offer you. We're here to answer your questions along the way.
Incoming Freshman Students
Welcome to the Herd! We are excited to see you start your journey here at Lipscomb. All incoming students are required to live on campus and sign up for a dining plan unless they're living with their parents or their spouse in the area.
Living on campus is a requirement for incoming freshman, sophomores and juniors to make your time at Lipscomb an engaging experience. Students are not required to live on campus if they are living with their parents or their spouse in the Nashville area.
Incoming students are assigned living space in Elam Hall and Fanning Hall (female) or High Rise (male).
Through the Bison Portal, new students can apply to live on campus. You must choose on-campus accommodation, pay the $200 non-refundable housing processing fee and complete the housing application.
You will receive your housing assignment by June 1. - If you did not include the L# of your preferred roommate, you have until May 1, 2024 to enter this information. After May 1, students who did not enter an L# for a preferred roommate will be assigned with another new Bison who does not have a roommate preference.
If you are a part of the Honors College Program and sign up to live on the honors hall in Elam Hall or High Rise, your preferred roommate must be a part of the Honors College Program as well.
Incoming students are required to attend New Student Orientation, a one-day onboarding event before the start of the semester.
Every semester, all residential students must choose a meal plan.
Students beginning their first full year of college (aside from transfers) will be offered the Bison Ultimate meal plan; however, you can switch to the Bison Herd upon request.
Explore additional information on healthy options, food sensitivities or get in touch with our campus nutritionist.
We are excited to see you back on campus! Returning students are required to live on campus and sign up for a dining plan unless you live with your parents or spouse in the area or have senior status.
Living on campus is a requirement for freshmen, sophomores and juniors unless they are living with their parents or their spouse in the Nashville area. Seniors have the choice to live off campus.
Returning Students are responsible for selecting their room/space on campus during Room Reservation Days. All returning students, who live on campus in the fall, will receive communication from Housing & Residence Life beginning in January concerning dates and times of housing selection. Please be intentional about checking your Lipscomb email.
Every student who selects housing for the fall semester is required to pay the non-refundable Lipscomb University Upperclassmen Housing Processing Fee before selecting a space/room.
Your username is the letters/number before the @ sign of your Lipscomb email address. Your password is what you use to sign into your myLipscomb.
Information on your assignment, roommate and move-in plans will be sent by email. You will receive instructions on choosing a roommate within your allotted accommodation when you have paid your enrollment fee and housing cost.
Every semester, meal plans are required for all residential students.
The Bison Herd meal plan will be automatically assigned to returning students. After the first week of classes, students cannot modify their meal plan.
We are thrilled to have you join the Herd! Incoming transfer students have the option to live on campus or off campus. All residential students are required to have a meal plan.
Incoming transfer students may live on campus; however, they also have the option to live off campus.
Transfer students are assigned living space in Bison Hall (female) or Sewell Hall (male).
Through the Bison Portal, new students can apply to live on campus; however, living on campus is not required for transfer students. If you would like to live on campus, you must choose on-campus accommodation, pay the $200 non-refundable housing processing fee and complete the housing application.
Incoming students are required to attend New Student Orientation, a one-day onboarding event before the start of the semester.
Visit your Bison Portal to sign up for an orientation session. Email orientation [at] lipscomb.edu (orientation[at]lipscomb[dot]edu) or speak with your Admissions Counselor if you have any questions.
Commuters have the option to add a meal plan to their account.
To add a meal plan to your account as a commuter student, fill out the meal plan request form.
Meal plans must be added each semester.
Lipscomb Bucks roll over to the following semester. Dining dollars only roll over from fall to spring semester if the student has an active meal plan in the spring.
All dining dollars expire at the end of the spring semester.
Explore additional information on healthy options, food sensitivities or get in touch with our campus nutritionist.
In either traditional dormitory-style or apartment-style housing, you will find a safe community in which to grow and learn. Both women's and men's dorms have free access to laundry facilities, computer labs, kitchens and standard furniture for each room.
No matter what genre of food you’re craving, you’ll find something satisfying within the variety of options available -- smoothies, burgers and fries, wraps, sandwiches, salads and more.
The Connection, our on-campus post office, is a full-service post office ready to fulfill all of your mailing and shipping needs. You must have on-campus housing assignments to get a post office box.
We recognize that disabilities come in all shapes and sizes, and can include physical, mental, social and learning disabilities. We offer accommodations to qualified individuals.
