Next Steps

Immediate Tasks

• Pay your seat deposit.
• Set up your MyNIU account.
• Review your financial aid to ensure that any aid you wish to use for the next academic year is disbursed when classes begin.
• Secure housing to facilitate a smooth transition. Learn about on-campus graduate housing and off-campus housing.
• Join the 1L Facebook group.
• Update your contact information (if needed).

Over the Summer

• Complete the financial agreement. We'll email you when it's available. You won't be able to enroll in courses until you've completed this agreement.
• Review student health insurance. You're automatically enrolled in our plan when you register for nine or more on-campus credit hours. If you want to enroll in or waive this coverage, you must do so by early September.
• Submit immunization documentation before August 1.
• Request that your final official transcript, indicating the conferral of your bachelor's degree is sent directly to LSAC's Credential Assembly Service (CAS).
• Purchase textbooks before classes begin, once book lists become available.
• Purchase a virtual parking pass if you plan to drive to campus.

Beginning of Fall Semester

• Attend mandatory new student orientation.
• Pick up your OneCard, your official NIU identification.
• Reserve your locker. Locker assignments will begin after the first week of classes.