Off-Campus Students

Dining's meal plans aren’t just for students living on campus. We also offer plans for commuters and off-campus students who want convenient, healthy, and tasty meals, or a wide variety of snacks and beverages. Block 25, 50, 75, and 100 plans can be used throughout the academic year, and if you run out, you can purchase another block at any time. (Purchasing discounted Supplemental Dining Plus, discussed below, is another option if you find yourself running out of meals.) The Any 5 Meal Plan is a one-semester plan that you may purchase each semester.

2013-14 Plans:

* Dining Plus provided with these plans expires at the end of the academic year; Supplemental Dining Plus, discussed below, does not expire until you leave the university.

In these plans, you choose what combination of meals you want to eat. Each breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal has an assigned dollar amount called a meal card equivalency, and at each meal you may buy items that together total less than or equal to these amounts. If you go over the amount allotted, you may use Dining Plus or another form of payment to pay the difference.  Any unused dollar value at a meal is lost; it does not roll over to the next meal period. You may only use one meal from your plan per meal time period.  Meal equivalencies for the 2013-14 academic year are as follows:

• breakfast, $4.45
• lunch, $7.85
• dinner, $7.85

If your total exceeds the equivalency, you can use cash, Visa/MasterCard, Cardinal Cash, or Dining Plus to cover the difference. You can purchase supplemental Dining Plus amounts to add to your plan at a significant discount.

Check out the hours meals are offered to decide which plan is right for you. The weekly meal plans begin with the breakfast meal period on Sunday and extend to the dinner meal period on the following Saturday. These plans are not valid during university vacation periods.

For purchase information, please call 765-285-1967 or email dining@bsu.edu.