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Dining in the Carl Hansen Student Center on Quinnipiac University's Mount Carmel Campus in Hamden.CT.

Q-Card Information

The Quinnipiac University Q-Card is your passport to life at Quinnipiac. It serves as a form of identification for on-campus activities and sporting events. Students also use the Q-Card to access their meal plan, check material out of the library, gain access to their residence halls and swipe in and out of work.

How to Use a Q-Card

Q-Cards are used for:

  • Identification and security: Your Q-Card is used for student identification for on-campus activities and sporting events, as well as entry to authorized buildings and rooms.

  • Meal plan: Meal plan points are available on your Q-Card and can be used at registers at dining locations.
    Learn more about meal plans
    Learn more about meal plan budgets and staying on track

  • Q-Cash debit system: Students can use their Q-Card for Q-Cash, a debit account that is separate from your meal plan. This feature allows you to make purchases at off-campus merchants, the university bookstore and the on-campus post office.

View QCard Terms and Conditions

Track and Manage Your Meal Points and Q-Cash

Contact the Q-Card Office

Email

help@qu.edu

Mailing address

Quinnipiac University
AB-ASV
275 Mount Carmel Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518

Mount Carmel Campus

Location

Arnold Bernhard Library, Room 138
(Across from the reference desk)

Hours
Semester Hours

  • Monday to Thursday - 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

  • Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Saturday - 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

  • Sunday - Noon to 7 p.m.

Q-Card Printing Hours

  • Monday to Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Summer and Academic Breaks

  • Monday to Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Saturday and Sunday - Closed

Holidays

  • Closed on all university holidays

North Haven Campus

Location

Center for Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, MNH-338
(Near Edward and Barbara Netter Library)

Hours
Semester Hours

  • Monday to Thursday - 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

  • Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Saturday - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

  • Sunday - Closed

Q-Card Printing Hours

  • Monday to Friday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Summer and Academic Breaks

  • Monday to Friday - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

  • Saturday and Sunday - Closed

Holidays

  • Closed on all university holidays

Please see the Academic Calendar for more information about holidays and breaks.

Q-Card FAQs

As the start of the semester approaches, first-year and transfer undergraduate students receive QCard information and details from QStart. (Qstart is the checklist of activities for students to complete prior to the start of the term.) Information includes a deadline for uploading a picture and a pickup location usually during defined move in times. Graduate, Law, Medicine, International and Athletic students receive QCard information and details from their program staff which includes a deadline for uploading a picture and a pickup location, date, and time.

During the semester, students in need of a QCard can utilize the walk-in service at either Technology Center. See hours and locations

Students must present a valid form of picture identification at the time of pickup, such as a driver’s license or passport.

Students can access their Q-Cash and meal plan balances online on the Q-Card Balance page on MyQ, or via the eAccounts app.

Download the Apple eAccounts app

Download the Android eAccounts app

Meal plan budget guidelines week-by-week appear on posters at the registers and on the meal plan budgets and staying on track page indicating what the ideal dining balance should be each week of the semester.

Learn more about meal plan budgets and staying on track

A new Q-Card can be printed at either Technology Center. Please note there is a $30 fee to reprint a lost card. See hours and locations

Read the Q-Card Terms and Conditions

Meal plans use a declining points system. Meal plan points can only be used in the Quinnipiac dining halls: Au Bon Pain Café and Bakery, Bobcat Den, Café Q (Mount Carmel), North Haven Café, North Haven Outtakes, Starbucks, Sushi Do and York Hill Café. The dining halls regularly schedule food trucks to campus and meal points can be used for this purpose. Sometimes, student organizations schedule food trucks on campus as fundraisers and meal points cannot be used.

Q-Cash is cash/debit. Q-Cash are dollars students add to the card themselves and are used like a debit card at supported local vendors, food trucks, the bookstore and even as cash for purchases at the cafés. Parents, guardians, spouses and others can also make guest deposits into Q-Cash accounts.