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Residing on-campus enhances your college experience. Make new friends, become part of a community, and improve personal success along the way.

New Incoming/Transfer Students: Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Housing Application Now Open.

FTIC application will remain open as long as there are spaces on campus available to select for your student.

Priority date for F25-S26 applications is January 31st, 2025 for best chance of preferences in hall selections.

This is still not a guarantee that you will be able to select the hall you prefer, since this is never guaranteed. But your chances are greatly increased by this date above.

Current Returning Students:

Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Housing Re-application – Now Closed;

Waitlist Application is now open for Continuing/Returning Students for Fall 2025 – Spring 2026.

Student Housing Portal
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Residency Requirements

Tarleton supports a live-on campus requirement of one year for new incoming students (first time in college and freshmen). Students about to graduate or have already graduated from high school or have earned GED and have not yet attended a post-secondary institution for one long semester (i.e., Fall or Spring), are considered first-time in college (FTIC) students.

Students who have earned college credits before graduating from high school (AP or Dual Credits) or took classes immediately after graduating from high school (during the summer), are also considered FTIC students regardless of earned credit hours. FTIC students are required to reside on-campus their first academic year unless requesting and receiving approval for an Off-Campus Exemption.

Exemptions to Campus Residency Requirement

Exemptions to the Campus Housing Residency Requirement – A student may request an exemption to the campus residency requirement for one of the following reasons:

  • The student graduated from high school at least one year prior to the start of the semester.
  • The student will be 21 years of age prior to the start of the semester.
  • The student is a married student or a single parent with at least one dependent child.
  • The student currently resides, and will continue to reside, in the established primary residence of a family member (parent, legal guardian, sibling, aunt/uncle, grandparents) within 45 miles of Tarleton State University’s Stephenville Campus.
  • The student will reside with a sibling who is a registered student at Tarleton State University and will reside at the address that is located within 45 miles of Tarleton State University’s Stephenville Campus.
  • A transfer student who has completed college credits in a long semester (Fall – Spring) after graduation from high school.
  • The student is taking 8 credit hours or fewer as a part-time student.
  • The student has a financial hardship.