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Quick Stats

Student Parking Lot? Yes
Main Lot (Lancaster Ave.), South Campus, Pike Lot (Lancaster Ave.), and West Campus Apartments.
Freshmen Allowed to Park? No
Approximate Parking Permit Cost $100 per year
Common Parking Tickets
  • Fire zone: $50
  • No permit: $20

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Parking on campus is only a hassle junior year, when it’s a battle to find a spot by the apartments. Since underclassmen can’t bring cars to campus, it helps alleviate problems that could occur if everyone was to bring a car. While it’s near impossible to find a spot on Main Campus, the main lot almost always has a few spots during the day. And at night, when the main lot clears out, anyone with a car should have no problem parking there.

Since you can’t have a car on campus until your junior year, you get comfortable walking around campus from place to place. While parking may sometimes be a pain, particularly for the juniors living in the apartments, it is still a great help to have a car on campus. Most events, venues, and places to go tend to be out of walking distance from campus, and public transportation can become expensive. So, even with the problems associated with parking, it never hurts to have a car around.

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Parking at Villanova University

villanova24

'15

Biology

3.8
B+

Parking

You can only park on campus if you are a junior or senior, but there is ample room in the lot. There are many options for transportation like a train, taxi, shuttle and otherwise.

Dec 05, 2011

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Parking at Villanova University

philicia32

'13

Marketing

1.9
C-

Inconvenient, at Best

Parking is not good. You can't have a car until junior year because parking is limited. As a junior you typically live on West Campus, but there's even less parking there, so you have to park far away on Main Campus half of the time, depending on whether or not your roommates have cars. Luckily a lot of things are in walking distance and there are two different trains that are right on campus, so you're not stranded if you don't have your car. It's just a convenience thing.

May 18, 2011

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Parking at Villanova University

easumner

'14

Chemical Engineering

1.5
D+

Difficult to Have Car

Cars aren't allowed on campus until the student has junior status (60 credits) and it therefore takes a while to have the priveledge. Without a car, there is very little way to leave campus and go somewhere else to find something to do.

Mar 06, 2011

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Getting a Parking Permit

Freshmen and sophomores aren’t allowed to have cars on campus, but Villanova grants exceptions pretty readily with a note from an employer or a doctor. However, parking is pretty crowded already at Villanova and having a car isn’t really a necessity although it’s certainly nice to have one. It’s still a pain if you live in St. Mary’s to have a car because there’s no student parking in front of the building and you have to park on main lot, which is a walk.

Did You Know?

Best Places to Find a Parking Spot
Main lot

Good Luck Getting a Parking Spot Here!
Dougherty Drive
West Campus

While there is no requirement to pay tickets on campus, if you go to the school, you could be withheld from graduation if you do not pay your parking fines.

If you park without a permit or in a non-parking zone, you run the risk of having a nice bright orange wheel lock added to the décor of your car.

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