Fall Open House

Download the UNH Mobile App to custom build your own schedule on the app. A detailed schedule for the day will only be available via the UNH App. A printed campus map and overall schedule will be provided to registered students during check-in.

• For public health and safety, we strongly recommend visitors be fully vaccinated or have a negative COVID test within 72 hours before visiting. Vaccination cards and test results will not be checked. We trust visitors will do due diligence to ensure they can safely visit.
• Masks covering mouth and nose are encouraged while indoors, including in the dining hall (except when eating or drinking)
• Highly encourage those unvaccinated especially, to wear a mask in outdoor settings where sustained close contact with others is inevitable.

Please review our COVID visit protocols, which include the COVID health screening questions, prior to attending the Open House.

It will be a busy day on campus, so we recommend building an additional 20 minutes into your estimated GPS travel time to allow for navigating campus and parking once you arrive at UNH. Arriving 30 minutes prior to the start time will give you plenty of time to make your way across campus, pick up materials and plan your day.

Since each session is scheduled for a specific time, we recommend previewing the agenda and planning your day, so you don’t miss out on what you most want to see.

The Open House program will take place at a variety of locations across campus as we share the best of UNH with you. The location of each session is listed in the agenda. Wear comfortable shoes to make the most of campus on foot. Should you require accessibility accommodations, please contact our office at least two weeks before the event. Learn more here. 

We recommend bringing a water bottle to use at any of our hydration stations across campus and your favorite note-taking materials. There will be a lot of great photo opportunities throughout your day at UNH, so you might also want to bring your smart phone or camera to document every memorable moment.

We suggest planning your day around your priority academic sessions. Open House is the only event in the fall that gives you access to representatives from all undergraduate majors. Interested in more than one academic program? This is your Open House, so feel free to attend as many academic sessions as you can fit into your schedule. To learn more about student life, we recommend attending the welcome panel, registering for a general guided campus tour, or asking questions at the resource fair. You may not have time to do everything, so choose what is most important to you. We are happy to welcome you back to UNH for a campus tour or admissions information session, which are offered throughout the year.

Within each cohort (8:15 A.M. or 10 A.M. start) we anticipate approximately 2400 people attending. To reduce crowd density throughout campus, we encourage visitors to follow the timing of the sessions offered for their cohort. After the “Welcome and University Overview” kick-off, the flexibility of this year’s Open House means there will be a variety of small-group (20 attendees or less) and large-group (60 attendees or more) sessions around specific academic and student life interests. Some of our Open House events, like the Resource Fair and Residence Hall Open Doors, are designed so that you can stop by as fits your schedule. 

Open House is a great opportunity to learn about our 100+ academic programs, since it’s the only fall event where there are representatives for every undergraduate major.

A residence hall room will be shown as part of the General Guided Campus Tour. In addition, there will be a sample of residence halls open as part of the overall open house agenda. The halls available as part of the “open residence hall” section of the day will be a different hall than what is shown as part of the General Guided Campus Tour. The open residence halls will be medium and large halls. The hall show on the General Guided Campus Tour is a small hall. 

Residential Life and Housing staff will be available at the resource fair as well as in the Residence Halls open as part of Open House. Learn more about residence halls here.

Lunch in the dining hall is available for purchase at a discounted price of $10 per person. Tickets are available for purchase online. Lunch tickets will also be sold at the Hamel Recreation Center during check-in as well as before and during lunchtime at the Dunkin Donuts in the Memorial Union Building (MUB) and Philbrook Café in Philbrook Dining Hall. Tickets purchased for dining hall lunch are redeemable during the open house date only.

There are additional fast casual dining options across campus and numerous restaurants and coffee shops in downtown Durham, just a five-minute walk from campus. 

We encourage you to walk through the resource fair to meet with representatives from some of our student organizations. Since we have more than 200 clubs at UNH, not all of them will be able to attend Open House. Interested in a student organization that’s not at Open House? Be sure to stop by the resource fair table for the Memorial Union Building – UNH’s student union, also called the ‘MUB’ – where student life representatives will be able to answer any questions you may have about getting involved. Athletic coaches will not be at Open House, but we invite you to learn more about UNH’s D1 athletic teams and proud Wildcat traditions on our website.

UNH staff will be wearing orange lanyards at Open House so they’re easy to spot. They are here for you, so please do not hesitate to ask any questions you have throughout the event. You will also see blue information tents across campus, where you can find UNH admissions counselors and event resources.​​​​​​ The Smith Hall and Memorial Union Building tents will be open 9am-4pm. The other two information tents in the academic core area, will be open 9am- 12:30pm.

Please go to the Smith Hall information tent to claim any lost items. Smith Hall is located at the corner of Main Street and Garrison Avenue.