These 10 Boston-area colleges have some of the most expensive off-campus housing in the country
If you want to live off campus and still within a mile to your college in the Boston-area, be prepared to pay a hefty sum.
RadPad, a mobile apartment search and rent payment startup, just ranked the 50 colleges where it’s most expensive to rent near campus and Boston-area schools took up a full fifth of the list. The startup based it’s ranking on two-bedroom median rent prices within a mile of campus.
Emerson College, situated near the Boston Common, Public Garden, and Chinatown, came in at No. 11 on the list, making it the most expensive Boston-area school, RadPad reported.
Rents within a mile of Emerson’s campus on average are about $3,790 per month for a two-bedroom.
Suffolk University, also located downtown, came in just below Emerson at No. 12, with two-bedroom rents averaging $3,747 per month for a two-bed. Boston University (No. 15), Northeastern University (No. 16), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 17), also ranked toward the top of the list for having two-bedroom rents that fall at about $3,100 per month.
Other Boston area schools that made the list include Simmons College (No. 24), Wellesley College (No. 27), Babson College (No. 39), Bentley University (No. 47), and Tufts University (No. 50).
But this is a problem Mayor Marty Walsh has been trying to address. As part of his “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030” plan, Walsh would like to create more on-campus housing, cutting in half the number of undergraduate students in the area who live off campus. This could open up more housing for non-students trying to move to the area.
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