FAQs and Policies

We choose your roommate based on the compatibility of responses in your housing questionnaire. As a freshman you’ll get your housing assignment in July. Upperclass students choose by the end of spring semester. It is possible to choose your roommate if you know someone you’d like to share with.

Talk with your RA to set up a mediation. If mediation fails, email your RD or AC and setup an appointment to figure out next steps.

All rooms are furnished with XL twin beds. You can create bunk beds if you and your roommate agree to do so.

Meal plans are included with room and board. 

• All-Access Meal Plan – all residential students (embedded in housing and board charges)
  • A meal swipe every meal period 
  • $285 in Bulldog Bucks
• Lifestyle 14 – Only available to graduating Seniors living in housing with a full kitchen
  • $400 in Bulldog Bucks
  • 14 Meal swipes per week 
• 75-Block Plan. Cost: $660 per semester – commuters only
  • 75 meals per semester at W.T. Harris Dining Hall 
  • $200 in Bulldog Bucks
• 50-Block Plan. Cost: $550 per semester – commuters only
  • 50 meals per semester at W.T. Harris Dining Hall 
  • $200 in Bulldog Bucks
• 25-Block Plan. Cost: $295 per semester – commuters only
  • 25 meals per semester at W.T. Harris Dining Hall 
  • $120 in Bulldog Bucks
• Bulldog Bucks Plan. Cost: $475 per semester – residential students and commuters
  • $500 in Bulldog Bucks per semester
• Bulldog Bucks Plan. Cost: $185 per semester – residential students and commuters
  • $185 in Bulldog Bucks per semester

Bulldog Bucks
Bulldog Bucks work like a debit card, with funds being deposited into your Wingate University account as part of your meal plan. They can be used only for dining. You can use them at Einstein Bros., Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and more dining locations around campus. All residential students are allotted $285 in Bulldogs Bucks, which expire at the end of each semester. For more information about dining, check out the WingateEats website.

Dining Options:

• W.T. Harris Dining Hall
• Einstein Bros. Bagels 
• Freshëns Fresh Food Studio 
• Chick-fil-A 
• Wild Blue
• Starbucks
• Pizza Hut
• Marketplace

More about dining

Yes, students can have a vehicle on campus, but they must have a parking decal and are restricted to parking in areas assigned to their specific decal. Parking decals can be picked up in the Office of Campus Safety. At the beginning of the fall semester, all students can get a parking decal during Welcome Week.

For video and photos of first-year housing, please click here.

Freshmen receive their housing assignment in July, and upperclassmen sign up for housing during the spring semester for the next academic year.

If you want to commute, you need to let the Office of Residence Life know before the start of the semester. You’ll need to submit a Commuting Student Application to the Office of Residence Life. The application goes through an approval process. Students who are at least 23 years old (on or before the first day of classes), ninth-semester seniors or living in the principle residence of their parents or guardians have the option of living off campus. Unless living in the principle residence of a parent or guardian, all scholarship student-athletes are required to live on campus.

For first-year students, the following options are available:

• Alumni Hall offers two-person rooms as well as four-person rooms.
• Cannon Hall offers two-person rooms as well as four-person rooms.
• CM Black Hall offers two-person rooms.
• Helms Hall offers suite-style living; each suite has four rooms with up to two people to a room.
• JM Smith Hall offers two-person rooms.

Please contact the Office of Residence Life regarding availability. If space is available, there may be a per day charge for early arrivals.

There is absolutely no alcohol allowed in the traditional first-year student residence halls (Alumni, Cannon and JM Smith). All other residences are allowed to have alcohol if all current residents are 21 years old, the legal drinking age in North Carolina. If you are 21, you may not take alcohol into another apartment or residence on campus if those residents are under age.

Students living on campus are allowed to have fish that can survive in a five-gallon tank. Cats, dogs, rabbits, snakes, turtles and other animals are not permitted as pets. Students who have pets that do not fall under the above guidelines may incur a community standards violation with financial assessments.

An assistance animal (the category under which an ESA would be categorized) is permitted only as an approved student accommodation. Students seeking academic or non-academic accommodations at Wingate University must self-declare a disability and provide supporting documentation as a first step in requesting reasonable accommodations. There are different rules for service dogs, which are welcome on campus too. For more information, email k.wharton@wingate.edu.