Commuter & Off-Campus Student Parking at KU

Commuter/Off-Campus Student Parking at KU

Students living at home or off-campus who wish to park on campus are required to register for and display a valid student parking permit:

• Between 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday, all commuter student permits are valid only in their assigned lots in white-lined spaces that are not reserved.
• All commuter student permits are valid after 4:30 p.m. all day on Saturdays and Sundays in other lots, only in white-lined spaces that are not reserved.
• Permits are required during the fall and spring semesters, but not during the summer months.
• Commuter upperclassmen are undergraduate students with 30+ credits entering the fall semester of the current academic year who reside off-campus but not in privately owned housing communities served by the University's campus shuttle service. They will be issued a C (commuter) decal.  Vehicles with C decals must be parked in lots A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, D3, E1, E2, F6.

• Commuter Freshmen (underclassmen) are undergraduate students with fewer than 30 credits entering the fall semester of the current academic year who reside off-campus but not in privately owned housing communities served by the University's campus shuttle service. They will be issued an X (commuter underclassman) decal.  Vehicles with X decals must be parked in lots A3, A4, D3, E1, E2.
• Additional vehicles - commuter students that wish to register more than one vehicle to park on campus will be issued a parking permit of their original permit type.