All students must apply for housing annually. In order to be granted access to the application you must be a currently enrolled UMBC student and in good financial standing. Students with outstanding student account balances greater than $250 will not be granted access to the application. You should contact Student Business Services to find out how to clear your account balance.
Undergraduate students with 39 or more completed credits are eligible to apply to Walker Avenue Apartments. The Walker Avenue Application & Contract will open on March 2, 2026 at Noon and will close on March 6, 2026 or when 500 applications have been completed. If you are interested in learning more about the Walker Avenue Apartments process, please consider attending the virtual Room Selection Overview Info Session on February 23, 2026 at 12 p.m.
All undergraduate students are eligible to apply to Residential Life housing. The Residential Life Application & Contract will open on April 1, 2026 at 9 a.m. and will close on May 1, 2026 or when 1500 applications have been completed. If you are interested in learning more about the Residential Life process, please consider attending the virtual Room Selection Overview Info Session on March 27, 206 at 12 p.m.
To learn more about UMBC's Public Humanities program and minor in public humanities, see:
To learn more about UMBC's Public Humanities program and minor in public humanities, see:
https://cahss.umbc.edu/publichumanities
https://amstcommunitystudies.org
Write@UMBC: A 14-Day Scholarly Writing Challenge
Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Graduate School
Supported by the Office of the Provost
In Collaboration with Dresher Center for Humanities, CS3, and CIRCA
What is Write@UMBC?
Write@UMBC
is a campus-wide writing initiative designed to help scholars and
scholar-practitioners build sustainable writing habits through protected
time, light accountability, and community support.
Who can participate?
Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, researchers, and administrators/staff across UMBC.
How it works
30 minutes of writing per day for two weeks
Any scholarly writing or part of the writing process counts
There will be no need to share your writing content
Optional community check-ins for light accountability and reflections
When is the challenge?
March 2–15, 2026
How do I participate?
Register for Write@UMBC using this registration form. You must have a NCFDD-account. To activate your free account using your UMBC email here: https://members.ncfdd.org/institutions/umbc
***Registration Deadline is February 22***