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

QCard Information

The Quinnipiac University QCard 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 QCard to access their meal plan, check material out of the library, gain access to their residence halls and swipe in and out of work.

Manage Your QCard

In addition to identification for on-campus activities and sporting events, students can use the QCard for QCash, 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. About 40 off-campus merchants accept QCash as a form of payment. These merchants are located near the university and many deliver to campus.

Add QCash

If you do not have an account: Choose “Make a guest deposit” option.

View QCard Terms and Conditions

QCard 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.

All pre-printed QCards that not picked up are held at the Mount Carmel Technology Center in the Arnold Bernhard Library. See hours and location

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

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.

QCash is cash/debit. QCash 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 QCash accounts.

Contact Us

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.

QCard 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

QCard 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.