USC Overnight Visitor Registration Website

USC strives to maintain a safe community where its students, faculty, staff, and guests feel safe, respected, and protected. To help keep our campus safe, access is restricted nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. to students, faculty, staff and registered guests. The USC Village also is restricted from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. each night. Only select entrances are open overnight, and security personnel are stationed at each one.  

USC community members entering campus overnight are simply asked to show their USC identification. Guests arriving on campus after 9 p.m. must be pre-registered by an USC student, faculty or staff member. Two new changes have been added to enhance the entry process:

  • The current system allows you to register guests for an extended number of days or the entire semester. Beginning July 12, 2023, guest registration must be completed daily for each guest planning to visit the University Park Campus or the Village during closure hours.
  • Pre-registered guests will receive an email with a link to a QR code. The guest must present the QR code and a valid photo ID at any of the open UPC or Village entry gates to enter campus. 

Visitor registration is available on this site. Once an USC student, staff or faculty registers a guest, the information is immediately available in the registration system.

PEDESTRIAN VISITORS:

Pedestrians wishing to enter campus between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. must be registered as a guest and have a government issued identification card and the QR code.

VEHICLES:

Cars with a USC parking permit may be admitted after 9 p.m. to campus parking structures. Registered guests are allowed entry to parking structures after presenting the QR code and their identification card to entrance attendants. A pass will be issued for registered guests.

Unregistered visitors driving vehicles will not be allowed entry unless they have a business purpose; examples include commercial food delivery, commercial transportation such as a shuttle van or taxi service, or service calls. Drivers will be asked for identification and for their destination.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

When a university department invites a large number of off-campus guests with expected arrival times between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., arrangements must be made in advance with the USC Department of Public Safety. Guest passes will be created in conjunction with the host department. Student-organized events must be pre-approved by USC Student Affairs; guest arrangements also need to be made through USC Student Affairs.

VENDORS:

USC Transportation will issue special passes to regular vendors. For more information, please visit USC Transportation or call (213) 740-3575.