Room Changes

Interested in Changing Rooms?

When room assignments are made, residents are assigned to the room assignment that is as close to their preferences as possible based on their housing contract number. After students are assigned, they may request a reassignment.

The reassignment request website will open approximately one week after room assignments are released. Students that are assigned to permanent (not overflow) spaces may submit a reassignment request. If a vacancy occurs, University Housing staff will review reassignment requests on file in contract number order, from those with matching hall and room type preferences.

General Information

  • Reassignments cannot be guaranteed.
  • Reassignment requests will remain on file for the entire term and will be processed as openings occur.
  • Students that are reassigned will be responsible for any difference in rent between the old and new space. Click here for rental rates chart.
  • Students seeking reassignment in order to request an accommodation for a medical/physical condition must provide documentation. Click here to learn about accommodations and required documentation.
  • Residents may not move to a new room or hall without written permission from the University Housing office or their building's hall coordinator or assistant coordinator.
  • Reassignments will not be processed during the first three weeks after the halls open.

Mutual Swap

Prior to hall opening, students requesting to change rooms with another student within the same hall, if they are assigned to the same room type, can submit their request via email to housing@fsu.edu. Both students agreeing to change rooms will need to submit the request before any reassignment can be processed. Room change requests within the same hall and room type will be processed once the two students agreeing to change rooms have submitted their request as outlined below. Requests will remain on file until both students requesting to change rooms have submitted their request, or until approximately one week prior to the official hall opening date for the requested term.

Limitations: Requests to swap may be denied if any of the following are true:

  • One student is a Returning Resident and one is an Incoming student
  • One student is part of an LLC and the other is not part of that same LLC
  • If one student has an approved accommodation preventing the swap
  • If one student has opted into a specialty housing program that the other student is not also participating in

How to Submit a Mutual Swap Request
  1. Send an email from your FSU email account to housing@fsu.edu. This email should include the following information:
    1. Your full name
    2. Your current assignment: hall and room number
    3. The full name of the person you want to switch places with
    4. That student’s hall and room number
  2. The person you are requesting to swap with must also submit a matching request.

What's Next

  1. If two matching requests are submitted and approved, both students will be reassigned to each other's rooms.
  2. Students will be notified via email that they have been moved.

What a Mutual Request is Not

A mutual swap is not the way that two students that want to be roommates indicate their request to room together. If two students want to be roommates and neither of their roommates are interested in moving, the students must submit a regular reassignment request. In this case, University Housing will only be able to assist if 2 vacancies occur in a room together and both students that want to be roommates: 1) have the best/lowest contract numbers for that vacancy, and 2) both students requested the building and room type that match the vacancies.

Re–assignment Request

Please follow the instructions below to submit a reassignment request unless you are trying to swap rooms with another student in a specific room or, after halls open, if you would like to change to a different room (excluding single rooms) within the same building.

How to Submit a Request
  1. Click here to access the myHousing portal.
  2. Click on Reassignment Request link.
  3. Read the important information on the first page about how to submit the request and the reassignment process.
  4. On the 2nd page of the request, you will decide:
    1. To make your request Active (to indicate your desire to be reassigned) or Inactive (to remove yourself from reassignment consideration/cancel your reassignment request)
    2. Which of the 3 request types you'd like to submit.
    3. List 'yes' or 'no' to each of the available halls and room types to indicate to which of these you are interested in being reassigned.
    4. Save Changes at the bottom.
  5. If you are requesting to be moved with a specific roommate (very difficult to do), you will then go to the 3rd page of the request and list that specific student using their last name and date of birth
  6. Save changes at the bottom

What's Next?

Before Halls Open

  1. If a vacancy occurs, University Housing staff will review reassignment requests on file in contract number order. The student with the best/lowest contract number that has a matching hall and room type preference will be selected.
  2. Student will be reassigned to the new room.
  3. Student will be notified via FSU email that they have been moved.
  4. Within 1–2 weeks, student's rent will be adjusted.

If you no longer wish to be reassigned, you must cancel their request before a reassignment is made, as reassignments are completed before the halls open without students accepting the room change. You are NOT able to later cancel/decline your reassignment, as a new student will already have been assigned to the previous room. You can cancel your request by logging into your myHousing portal, and making your Reassignment Request "Inactive".

After Halls Open

  1. If a vacancy occurs, University Housing staff will review reassignment requests on file in contract number order. The student with the best/lowest contract number that has a matching hall and room type preference will be selected.
  2. Student will be offered vacancy via their FSU email. Student has 1 full business day to accept reassignment.
  3. If student accepts reassignment, student will be reassigned to the new room.
  4. Student will be notified via email that they have been moved. Student then has 48 hours to complete the move to the new space.
  5. Within 1–2 weeks, student's rent will be adjusted.