2025-2026 First-Year Student Room Selection

Looking for a Roommate?  Click here for Room Sync tutorial. 
First Year applicants will receive an invitation to sign up for RoomSync directly to their NJIT Email upon submitting their housing application. The link is also made available via the confirmation message that appears on the screen immediately upon submitting the application. 

Check your Priority Number (The date/time you will be able to select your room online.)

• Login to Self Service (click here)
• On your Home page you will see Room Selection. You will see your Start time and your priority number. This is the date/time you will be selecting your own room online.
• Below your Priority Number you will see Selection Times. This is the time period that the entire process will occur. Your start time will fall somewhere in between one of the selection times listed. 

• Login to Self Service (click here) 
• On your Home page, select Room Selection, Select Roommates (this includes suitemates)
• Select Fall 2025 term
• Select Search for Roommate
• Enter the last and/or first name of the student(s) you would like to live with.
• Select and add the student. Each student in your room/suitemate group will need to select and match with everyone in your group. The student with the best priority time will select the space for everyone in your group.
• Access step-by-step instructions HERE.

• Placement in Martinson Hall is based on the date you submitted your housing application. Residence Life staff will place you into your room assignment. You DO NOT participate in Open Room Selection.
• Honors students not able to be placed into Martinson Hall due to limited space will be assigned to a room in Cypress Hall and added to the Martinson Hall waiting list.
• If you found a roommate online through RoomSync, you may update this information on your housing application online through the Self Service portal. You have until June 13, 2025 to add this information.

• Based on the date you submitted your application you will be given a priority number. Your priority number will tell you the date/time you will log in to select a room in either Cypress or Redwood Halls.
• You will add your room/suitemate preferences as indicated above prior to selecting a room online. Remember that each member in your group must match in order to be placed together by the student with the best priority number.