Purchase or Renew Online
- Log in to your myMU account and search for “Commuter Meal Plans & MU Parking.”
- Scroll down and select the “Future, current, and former students” link.
- From the CashTrack Student Finance Portal page, select the “Permits” link and then choose “Renew” or “New Permit.”
- Complete the form and add your payment information.
Student parking application 2025-2026
Employee parking application 2025-2026
Once submitted and confirmed, you can pick up your renewal validation decal or new permit at the Parking Office, located at 1801 5th Avenue, Huntington – directly across 5th Avenue from Twin Towers West.
Temporary Parking Permits: Summer Class Sessions
Summer A (5/12 – 6/6/2025) $25.00
Summer B (5/19 – 8/8/2025) $50.00
Summer C (6/9 – 7/3/2025) $25.00
Summer D (7/7 – 8/1/2025) $25.00
Contact parking@marshall.edu or visit myMU
Parking permits are for 6 months for $85.00 and $170.00 for the full year. A student parking permit will allow you to park in any designated MU Student or General permit parking area on campus. Spaces in these areas are available to students on a first-come-first-serve basis only. The availability of space is not guaranteed. Students are not permitted to park in faculty/staff area if their assigned area is full.
Student parking permits for the Third Avenue Parking Garage are available. Garage permits are $135.00 for 6 months (valid until 12/31/25) and $270.00 for the full year (valid until 06/30/26).
Garage parking permits are valid only in the Third Avenue Parking Garage. Garage spaces are available on a first-come-first-serve basis only. The availability of spaces is not guaranteed.
Employee Parking Permits
Employee parking permits are for either 6 months for $85.00 or $170.00 for the full year. An employee surface parking permit will allow you to park in any designated MU Employee or General parking area on campus. The availability of spaces in assigned areas is not guaranteed. If an assigned area is full, an employee must park in the next employee assigned lot or any General university parking area. Employees are not permitted to park in another assigned staff or student area if their assigned area is full.
*Employees have the option to sign up for payroll deduction. See Parking Office for more details.
Vehicles parked in any designated handicapped space on campus must display a valid MU parking permit in addition to a state issued handicapped parking placard or license plate. Permit holders must obtain a MU handicapped-parking decal to affix to their MU parking placard.
To apply for the handicapped decal, you must attach a copy of your state issued handicapped registration card. The name on the registration card must correspond with the name on the application before the MU handicapped decal will be issued. Permits are valid in any designated handicapped parking space on campus.
There is a $100.00 fine for parking in violation of this state law.
Contact parking@marshall.edu for more information.
Permit parking is enforced on campus from 7 AM to 7 PM, Monday through Thursday and 7 AM to 4 PM on Friday. All other violations are enforced 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.
After 4 p.m. student parking permits are valid in all M.U. permit parking areas regardless of designation. Please familiarize yourself with the regulations, parking locations and violations and fines before the first day of class.
- You must notify the Parking Enforcement Office of any changes in the registration of your vehicle.
- Parking permits are not transferable. DO NOT SHARE YOUR PARKING PERMIT WITH ANYONE.
- The person registering a vehicle is responsible for all citations issued to that vehicle and/or any other vehicle displaying their parking permit.
- Three or more unpaid parking citations will result in a financial hold being placed on a student’s record.
- After 10 or more unpaid citations or $300 has accumulated, the vehicle may be towed at the owner’s expense.
- Vehicles displaying an altered or forged MU parking permit are impounded immediately and criminal charges may be pursued.
- Financial holds will not be removed until all outstanding fines are paid.
Game-day Parking
On home football game days, MU parking permits are not valid in the Stadium lot and other surface lots with numbered spaces. Permit holders must remove their vehicles from these lots by 7 AM. The Athletic Department will tow any vehicles remaining in these areas at the owner’s expense. Student vehicles may be relocated to the student parking lots between 18th Street and 19th Street on 6th Avenue.
All other surface parking lots without numbered spaces and parking garages can charge a fee for parking on home football game days. Permit holders parked in the parking garages or surface lots without numbered spaces, may stay parked there. However, if you exit the garage or any surface lot on game day and try to re-enter, you must pay the entry fee.
WEEKDAY GAME PARKING
It is the policy of the Marshall University Office of Public Safety that during week game days, the Athletic Department does not charge any valid MU permit holder to park on the open surface lots or in the Third Avenue Parking Garage because of the evening class sessions. There is no parking allowed on stadium lots during weekday or week-end games.
If you are unable to register for a Summer/Spring/Fall Semester due to a parking hold, please contact the Bursar’s Office at 304-696-6620 or the Parking Office at 304-696-6406.
Parking permits cannot be renewed until financial holds are satisfied.
A lost/stolen form must be fill-out and filed before a replacement permit can be obtained at the Parking Enforcement Office for a fee of $20.00.
Any vehicle displaying the lost/stolen permit will be towed at the owner’s expense. If you find your lost or stolen permit and you have received your replacement permit, please return the original permit to the Parking Enforcement Office.
CLASSES OF AVAILABLE PARKING PERMITS:
- “A” parking area is exclusively for Employees
- “B” parking area is exclusively for Employees
- “C” parking area is exclusively for Handicapped parking spaces
- “D” parking area exclusively for Handicapped parking spaces and a few employee parking spaces
- “E” parking area exclusively for employee parking
- “S” parking areas are specified for student parking
- “G” parking area is specified for third avenue parking garage facility only
- “General parking” areas are specified for all who have been issued Marshall University surface parking permits
- “Visitor” parking areas are metered parking.
- Visitors can contact the Parking offing to purchase a temporary parking permit
If you are an existing permit holder, do not throw away your current parking permit. The validation decal is renewed each year and should be applied to your existing placard. There is a $20.00 parking permit replacement fee. Parking permits cannot be renewed until any financial holds are satisfied.
If you have a parking permit and are leaving the university the parking permit must be returned to the Parking Enforcement Office. The Office of Public Safety, Parking Enforcement Office refunds permits for individuals leaving the university on a pro-rated basis that is set by the Office of the Bursar. All permits must be returned at the time refunds are issued.
If you need to make changes to your vehicle application, such as, addition of new vehicle or removal of an old vehicle, come to the Bliss Charles Public Safety Building or send an email to parking@marshall.edu with the following information:
- Name
- MU ID Number
- License plate
- Make
- Style (4-door, van, truck)
- Color
- Model