{"id":6836,"date":"2014-09-17T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/?page_id=6836"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:24:55","slug":"residential-meal-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/residential-meal-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Residential Meal Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">For the 2026-2027 academic year, all USC Housing&#8217;s undergraduate residents will have required (mandatory) meal plans that can be used in the residential dining halls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freshmen (First Years):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All freshmen (first year) undergraduates will be assigned the default full meal plan (Cardinal Plan.)\u00a0 This applies in <em>all<\/em> USC Housing facilities, including residence halls (dorms), suites and apartments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All Undergraduate Upperclassmen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All undergraduate upperclassmen (sophomores, juniors and seniors) assigned to apartment facilities will be assigned the default partial meal plan (Flex 120).<\/li>\n<li>All undergraduate upperclassmen (sophomores, juniors and seniors) assigned to residence halls (dorms) and suite facilities will be assigned the default full meal plan (Cardinal Plan).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graduate Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graduate students do <em>not<\/em> have a required meal plan.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.usc.edu\/residential-dining-meal-plans\/\"><strong>USC Hospitality website<\/strong> <\/a>for the most current information regarding meal plans.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tablepress-55-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-55\">2025-2026 Residential Meal Plans<\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-55\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-55\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-55-name\">\n<caption class=\"tablepress-table-caption tablepress-table-caption-id-55\">2025-2026 Residential Meal Plans<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Meal Plan<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Type<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Cost per Semester<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Cardinal<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Full (default plan)<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$4,025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Trojan<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Full (optional upgrade)<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$4,605<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Flex 120<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Partial (default plan)<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$1,975<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2026-2027 academic year, all USC Housing&#8217;s undergraduate residents will have required (mandatory) meal plans that can be used in the residential dining halls. Freshmen (First Years): All freshmen (first year) undergraduates will be assigned the default full meal plan (Cardinal Plan.)\u00a0 This applies in all USC Housing facilities, including residence halls (dorms), suites&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/residential-meal-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Residential Meal Plans\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-financialfacts.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6836","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80915,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6836\/revisions\/80915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}