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  • Resident Meal Plans

    2020-2021 Meal Plans

    Residential Meal Plans  

    Ultimate Plus 
    The Ultimate Plus plan encourages a more natural, flexible style of eating. Eat whenever you are hungry, and eat as much or as little as you care to eat. This plan offers an unlimited number of swipes in the Capital Court Dining Room.

    • Unlimited Swipes for our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room
    • $200 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • 5 Guest Meals per semester to use at Capital Court
    • 1 Meal Exchange per day at One Main Café
    • Required for all first-year residents, and optional for sophomores, juniors and seniors who live on campus

    240 Block
    This plan allows 240 meal swipes per semester to use any time in our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room or One Main Café. This plan is great for sophomores, juniors and seniors who live on campus without a kitchen, or any commuters. 

    • 240 swipes for the semester
    • $400 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • Sophomore, juniors, and seniors who live on campus without a kitchen are required to choose between The Ultimate Plus, 240 Block, 200 Block or 125 Block meal plans

    200 Block
    This plan allows 200 meal swipes per semester to use any time in our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room or One Main Café.

    • 200 swipes for the semester
    • $300 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • Sophomore, juniors, and seniors who live on campus without a kitchen are required to choose between The Ultimate Plus, 240 Block, 200 Block or 125 Block meal plans

    125 Block
    This plan allows 125 meal swipes per semester to use any time in our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room or One Main Café. This plan is great for sophomores, juniors and seniors who live on campus without a kitchen.

    • 125 swipes for the semester
    • $300 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • Sophomore, juniors, and seniors who live on campus without a kitchen are required to choose between The Ultimate Plus, 240 Block, 200 Block or 125 Block meal plans

    Commuter Meal Plans  

    Freedom 100
    This plan allows 100 meal swipes per semester at our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room. This is the ideal flexible option for commuters on the go!   

    • 100 swipes for the semester
    • $150 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • 5 Guest Meals per semester to use at Capital Court

    Freedom 50
    This plan allows 50 meal swipes per semester at our all-you-care-to-eat Capital Court Dining Room.

    • 50 swipes for the semester
    • $150 Capital Bucks to spend at on-campus dining venues and at participating off-campus restaurants
    • 5 Guest Meals per semester to use at Capital Court

    Meal Plan Info

    All students in their first year on campus are required to participate in the Ultimate Plus meal plan for the entire academic year, regardless of earned credits. (This includes first-year students, and transfers living in traditional residence halls.) Upper-class students may choose from 240 Block, 200 Block or 125 Block. 

    Meal swipes do not carry over from semester to semester. Capital Bucks carry over from fall to spring semester, if a student maintains a full meal plan. Capital Bucks do not carry over from spring to fall semester. At the end of each semester, all leftover meals are removed from the students account. Upperclassmen, can submit meal plan changes for fall on or before the second Friday of classes. All students may request a meal plan change for the spring semester on or before the second Friday of Spring classes.

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    Make a Meal Plan Change

  • Capital Dining Disclosure

    All funds and plans purchased for use in the Capital Dining program are for the personal use of the account owner and are non-transferrable. Unused meal plans expire at the end of each semester. Capital Bucks associated with meal plans and those purchased above and beyond those associated with meal plans, will carry over from the Fall to the Spring Semester, expiring at the last day of the spring semester.

    All meal plan and student Capital Bucks purchases are non-refundable. All purchases are considered final. 

    For students who withdraw from the University, meal plans will be refunded on a pro-rated basis as determined by the Office of Residential and Commuter Life and in accordance with the University’s policies.