Taylor University
- Parking

Walk

Students tend to leave their cars in the dorm lots or at their houses. No parking is available near most academic buildings. Campus is small enough to walk. Freshmen are not allowed to have cars on campus until after thanksgiving, when dorm parking becomes a nightmare.

Parking Is Easy

It is not hard to find parking spots on campus, but whether they are good spots or not is a different story. Buying a parking permit only costs ten dollars for the whole year. It is easy to get a ticket though, so it is important to make sure that you have parked in a legal spot in the correct way. I personally do not have a car on campus and just get rides from other people. However, since everything is so far away from campus, it would be nice to have a car.

Reasonable, but Fines May Be Excessive

Parking permits are only $5 and are required for all students who park on campus. But fines for incorrect parking procedures (even for parking on the line between two parking spaces) are generally around $20, and so check your car's alignment twice before walking inside. I have heard of other cases where a student parked in the wrong parking lot for a five-minute errand and got a $20 fine. Also, the parking lots become much more packed after Thanksgiving when all the freshmen receive parking privileges. At worst, though, you won't have to walk more than a quarter mile from the parking lot to your dorm.