Student Parking Permits

Boston College student applications for parking permits will be accepted beginning Saturday, August 1, 2009 through Agora.

Students are expected to read and comply with Boston College Parking and Traffic Regulations.

• Students are NOT considered visitors and may NOT use visitor parking at any time.
• Parking on campus is not available on days of home football games, major campus events and during inclement storm situations.
• Residential student permits are distributed on a semester basis and all other student permits are annual to include fall, spring and summer semesters.
• Student parking permits are not intended for transfer between individuals and must be affixed to the student vehicle windshield for access to Boston College campuses.
• Permits will not be granted if outstanding unpaid campus citations are on the permit applicant's record.

Student Parking Access Maps by Campus

   Chestnut Hill Campus parking map
   Newton Campus parking map
   Brighton Campus parking map

2009-2010 Student Parking Permit Categories & Restrictions
- effective June 1, 2008

Permit Qualifications

• S-GS: Graduate student permits are available to full or part time students currently enrolled in any of Boston College's graduate programs or the Boston College Law School.
• S-E: Evening student permits are available to students currently enrolled in the Woods College of Advancing Studies or in any of Boston College's graduate programs.
• S-C: Commuter undergraduate student permits are available to matriculated Boston College undergraduate students who, during the academic year, live off campus, at a radius greater than one mile from public transportation lines. Students living in the following cities or towns do not meet this commuter distance requirement and will not qualify for a commuter parking permit: Allston, Brighton, Boston, Chestnut Hill and Brookline. Students are expected to use their personal academic year address, not the address of a family or friend, when applying for a parking permit. Those failing to honestly provide an accurate academic year address for parking permit application risk disciplinary action including loss of parking privileges at Boston College and loss of parking permit fee refund. At time of application, an undergraduate commuter student must submit:
  1. A parking application (Click here to download a PDF version of the application.)
  2. A copy of a Certificate of Insurance listing the student as an insured driver of the registered vehicle
  3. A valid vehicle registration in the undergraduate student's name or that of an immediate family member
  4. Proof of qualifying residency in the undergraduate's name, such as a lease, bank statement or utility bill
• S-RF/S-RS: Resident undergraduate student permits are available to matriculated Boston College undergraduate students who are:
  1. A junior or senior year student
  2. Enrolled in a Boston College sponsored field practicum or three credit internships and
  3. The intership/practicum site is NOT ACCESSIBLE by public transportation
  The allotment for these residential parking permits is very limited. Academic and administrative departments must notify, in writing, the Transportation & Parking Office of the quantity and names of undergraduate students who they are approving for inclusion in the residential parking permit allotment.
• POOL: Carpool permits are available to graduate and law school students who minimally have a driver plus one passenger sharing commutation to campus at least 3 days per week, throughout the year. 

Replacement Permits

All lost permits must be reported to the BC Police Department before a new permit is obtained through the Office of Student Services. Filing a false report will result in the permit holder's forfeiture of future parking permit privileges from Boston College.

A replacement fee of $150 or the equivalent to the original permit price (whichever is more) will be assessed for lost, stolen or misplaced permits. Damaged permits will be replaced at no charge upon exchange of the original damaged permit.

Event and Other Parking Restrictions

All vehicles, including undergraduate resident permit vehicles, must be off campus by 11pm the evening prior to scheduled home football games. Vehicles remaining on the Chestnut Hill campus after midnight will be towed. Students with resident permitted vehicles (RF, RS or TBR) may park on the Newton Campus for home football games.

No student parking is allowed from Saturday 3 p.m. through Sunday 6 p.m. at the Lower Campus parking lots adjacent to St. Ignatius Church, Vanderslice Hall, 110 St. Thomas More and More Hall. Cars parked in this area will be ticketed & towed.

To acomodate Mass parking, no student parking is allowed in any visitor parking areas of campus.