Get Your School-Specific College Packing List
Personalized for your university in under 2 minutes. Includes your dorm's exact appliance rules, what's banned, climate-adjusted clothing, and move-in day tips — all in one place.
How It Works
Pick your school
Choose from 100+ universities. We load that campus’s housing rules, banned items, and move-in details.
Add a few details
Tell us the housing type and climate. Your list adjusts for what each dorm allows and the weather they’ll face.
Pack, check off, print
Work through a personalized checklist, track what’s packed, and print or save it. Your progress saves automatically.
Why School-Specific Matters
A generic packing list can get your student fined or sent home with banned gear on move-in day. Dorm appliance rules vary wildly from one campus to the next:
- Electric kettles are banned at UConn, Yale, and several UC campuses, but allowed at BYU and Oregon.
- Microwaves are capped at 700W at Michigan and 1000W at Ohio State, while many schools provide a MicroFridge you shouldn't double up on.
- Coffee makers are prohibited at Harvard, Northwestern, and UCLA, even though they're fine almost everywhere else.
This generator flags exactly what your student's campus allows, so you only buy what they can actually keep in the room.
Schools With Verified Dorm Rules
The generator includes packing lists with verified housing and appliance policies for these universities. Not listed? The general college list covers the essentials for any campus.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does the College Packing List Generator work?
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Or read the full college dorm packing list guide on UniversityParent.