Commuter student housing: how to improve basic needs services for off-campus students

Abstract

This thesis primarily focuses on online off-campus housing resources offered across various universities. It analyzes three different resource systems: Rent College Pads, Off-Campus Partners, and internally run systems like the one from Ohio State University. The overarching result is that most of these systems offer the same resources. Rent College Pads offers more customizability and specific features, while Off-Campus Partners is more well-known and linked to other large housing platforms. The thesis concludes by providing recommendations from the Off-Campus Life office at Colorado State University on how they could better serve their off-campus student population.