Which starting route and application-category distinction does USC Housing publish for new students and continuing non-residents?

Record date 2026-10-18 — Content editorial review date, not a new publisher retrieval.

This page includes 2026–2027 terms and a Spring 2027 term, but its timeline also labels a spring application as Spring 2026 and gives a different spring move-in day from the term list. Those date inconsistencies are unresolved. This guide does not adopt an application-opening date, deadline, move-in date or currently open window. The page’s opening scope is new students and continuing non-residents. It separately says returning residents and continuing non-residents may apply when the application opens for their category; this is not a returning-resident renewal guide. No admission record, ID, login, term selection, commitment deposit, portal or individual eligibility was accessed or verified.

The page directs applicants to the Housing Application link in its portal and asks them to select a term. It distinguishes New to USC from Continuing Non-resident Student; new first-year, graduate and transfer applicants first need admission and a 10-digit USC ID.

USC Housing’s page says its instructions are for new students and continuing non-residents. It says first-year freshmen, new graduate students and transferring students may apply after university admission and issuance of a 10-digit USC student identification number, and that a housing application may be submitted before the Enrollment Commitment Deposit form. With login information, applicants are directed to the Housing Application link in USC’s online portal and asked to begin by selecting a term. In Application Category, newly admitted students select New to USC; students already attending USC who are not living in university housing select Continuing Non-resident Student. These are published entry and category instructions, not confirmation that an individual can access an application, is currently eligible or has a housing offer.