2025-2026 Meal Plans

All full-time undergraduate students, whether living on or off campus, are required to purchase a meal plan. Default meal plan charges are automatically placed onto a student's account based on credit hours enrolled.

Fall 2025 Meal Plans will be assigned automatically in July 2025 to full-time undergraduate students based on previous semesters of on-campus residency. Students will see this charge on their bill for the semester.

Once billed, students may request an upgrade to any plan in a price level above their default level. Upperclassmen may also choose to downgrade one level from their default (see details in the chart below). To request a change, please visit our Forms page to complete the Meal Plan Change Request Form. Students may also request a meal plan exemption by selecting the Meal Plan Exemption Form.

Students who are not automatically assigned a meal plan (part-time students, graduate students, etc.) may use the Meal Plan Change Request Form to choose an optional meal plan. Meal Plan funds will be available in August 2025.

Students have until the end of the first two weeks of the Fall semester (September 5, 2025) to request any changes to their dining options. All change requests are processed manually.

 

Meal PlanExpensePlan DetailsNotes
Charger Blue VIP $2,485

All Access Plan with $400 Charger Bucks + 10 Meal Exchanges per week + 10 Guest Passes.

 
Charger Blue  $2,330

All Access Plan with $300 Charger Bucks + 1 Meal Exchange per week + 10 Guest Passes.

Default Plan for First & Second Year Residents

Block 230

 $2,110 230 meal swipes/semester with $300 Charger Bucks includes 5 Meal Exchanges per week.

 

Block 85

 $1,088 85 meal swipes/semester with $300 Charger Bucks includes 3 Meal Exchanges per week.

Default Plan for Upperclassmen Residents

Block 50

 $775 50 meal swipes/semester with $300 Charger Bucks does not include  Meal Exchanges.

Optional Downgrade for Upperclassmen Residents

Commuter

 $415

415 Dining Dollars to be used at ANY on campus dining location.

Default Plan for Commuters and Residents of Southeast or Greek Housing

Glossary

TermDefinition
All Access

The All-Access plan allows students to eat at the Charger Café without a weekly or semesterly limit. Only one swipe is allowed every twenty minutes. 
Block

Is a predetermined set of "meal swipes.” For example, Block 230 includes 230 meal swipes per semester. A meal swipe grants you one all-you-care-to-eat meal at the Charger Café or a meal at Burrito Bowl/The Den by using a meal exchange (see below). 
Charger Bucks vs Dining Dollars

Charger Bucks and Dining Dollars can be spent dollar for dollar at any of our dining locations on campus. Charger Bucks expire at the end of each semester, but Dining Dollars remain until the end of the academic year.
Commuter Undergraduate students who do not reside on campus. Note: undergraduate students residing in SCH or Greek housing are assigned the Commuter meal plan.
First Year Residents Undergraduate students who have resided on campus for two semesters or fewer (not including summer) .
Guest Passes

One all-you-care-to-eat meal at the Charger Café that can be shared with friends, family, etc. There is no limit to how many can be used at once. 
Meal Exchange

One of your allotted meal swipes that can be used for a meal at Burrito Bowl or The Den instead of the Charger Café. (Charger Blue VIP and Block plans are limited to three exchanges per day) 
Second Year Residents Undergraduate students who have resided on campus for three to four semesters (not including summer).
Upperclassmen Residents Undergraduate students who have resided on campus for more than four semesters (not including summer).