The area code indicates a department or unit within a college or school. It is defined as the highest level of fiscal responsibility below or including the dean or equivalent (or anyone with fiscal authority above that level directly responsible for resource management, e.g. provosts, chancellors, vice presidents, etc. who will each have an area code to identify their offices). Area codes are three characters long.

Area codes answer the question, "Who is responsible for these resources?"

The area code is the second part of both an account number and an account string.

PLEASE NOTE: The most current version of the area list is online, in CUFS on the AREA table. The area manager address list contains addresses for all the area managers for numeric area codes.