Dining on Campus

HOUSING AND RESIDENCE LIFE

Moving In

No matter where you go on campus, you can find something good to eat! We have
14 dining locations (2 all-you-can-eat and 12 a-la-carte), offer a variety of meal plans, and have vegetarian and kosher cuisine. All students who live on campus must purchase a meal plan (except those who live in the Towson Run Apartments). Additional meals and snacks can be purchased through a Dining Points debit account. Dining Points can be used at any Dining Services location. Dining Points carry over from semester to semester and year to year, as long as you are registered at TU. Meal plans and Dining Points are accessed through your OneCard ID. For more information, visit:

http://dining.towson.edu and click on the “Dining Services Official Web Site” link.

How to Choose
a Meal Plan

Choosing a meal plan that works for your schedule and eating habits is easy. Just take a few minutes to educate yourself to select the meal plan that is right for you.

Things to Consider

85% of all resident students choose an Unrestricted Meal Plan. Half of resident students on an Unrestricted Meal Plan choose the 14 meals/week plan.
How many times a day do you eat?
Will you be on campus most weekends?

Unrestricted or Traditional?

Advantages of the Unrestricted Meal Plan:

Unrestricted Meal Plans are flexible. Unrestricted Meal Plans allow you to eat more than one meal per meal period. For example, eating lunch at 11:05 a.m., and a second meal at 3:30 p.m., would place both meals in the lunch meal period.
With an Unrestricted Meal Plan, you can swap unused meals for cash allowances toward a la-carte purchases at numerous locations around campus including PAWS, the Den and Susquehanna Food Court.
Students with an Unrestricted Meal Plan have fewer missed meals than those who have a Traditional Meal Plan.

Advantages of the Traditional Meal Plan:

A Traditional Meal Plan costs less than a corresponding Unrestricted Meal Plan. Please note: Traditional Meal Plans limit participants to one (1) meal per meal period.

What Unrestricted and Traditional Meal Plans Have in Common:

Both meal plans are for a specific number of all-you-can-eat meals per week. All meals must be used before the end of the meal plan week or you will lose them. Unrestricted and Traditional Meal Plans are priced per semester. You will have the opportunity to change your meal plan each semester, until the date the Bursar’s Office finalizes the charges for the semester. This date is posted in the dining halls and published in the university’s student newspaper, The Towerlight.

Meal Plan Options	Unrestricted Meal Plan (most popular)	Traditional Meal Plan
19 meals/week with $50 Dining Points	$2,023	$1,721
14 meals/week with $50 Dining Points	$1,892 (most popular)	$1,626
10 meals/week with $50 Dining Points	$1,665	$1,467
5 meals/week with $200 Dining Points	$916	$864
* These costs represent 2008-2009 prices for each semester. A price increase should anticipated for the 2009-2010 academic year. Towson Run students can purchase any meal plan, including Block Plans, and can review the Block Meal Plan option at http://dining.towson.edu


	University Housing is Non-Smoking
	All university housing (including Towson Run Apartments) is non-smoking. Residents who smoke must do so outside of the residence halls, away from the entrance and the building.