KU Partners with College Pads to Deliver New Off-Campus Housing Marketplace

April 12, 2024

The University of Kansas (KU) has partnered with College Pads to provide a new off-campus housing marketplace for KU students, and community members. College Pads’ service will go-live the week of April 15, 2024.

College Pads, via its software on the University’s website, will provide KU students with an educational tool to help them become more educated renters, compare off-campus housing options, find potential roommates, and sublet their existing units, when applicable.

This new platform at offcampushousing.ku.edu aims to provide a vastly improved interface for students seeking off-campus housing. One of the goals of the new platform is to increase engagement from students in selecting their living community. College Pads will be investing heavily in actively advertising the platform to students to ensure that the majority of students use the new platform to search for their off-campus housing. This increased student engagement will provide a powerful resource for students, parents, faculty, and staff, as well as increase the flow of traffic to local property owners and managers.

“We are excited about this partnership with College Pads to help students who are ready to live off-campus find housing in the Lawrence community,” said Sarah Waters, Executive Director of Housing & Residence Life at KU. “With nearly 6000 students living on-campus, we are at capacity. We also know that living off-campus during their time at KU is part of the overall student experience. College Pads will make finding student-oriented and focused leases in our community easier through this dedicated marketplace.”

The new site includes renter education modules to help students successfully navigate the transition to off-campus life and become better educated on the local rental processes. Custom-tailored to the needs of student renters, the College Pads platform also offers students a customized roommate and sublease portal.

College Pads is excited to be serving the KU market in this capacity and is looking forward to enhancing student success as well as establishing great relationships with property owners and managers in the community. In addition, while the University of Kansas will continue to be separate from the off-campus market and not be responsible for the management of such units, College Pads understands the values that the University of Kansas places on student service and looks forward to providing students with the information needed to make good decisions about off-campus living.

Listings on the site can be purchased by property owners and managers, whose listings are created by College Pads’ staff, improving overall listing quality. The University of Kansas and College Pads will be working together to host on-campus and virtual events for partners of the KU marketplace.

College Pads is the fastest-growing company in off-campus housing and is used at many other institutions across the country, including the University of Michigan, Arizona State, Baylor, the University of Utah, Texas Christian University, the University of Minnesota, and many more.

To learn more about listing properties on the new site, please contact:

Chelsey Hawkins, Regional Marketing Director

Rent College Pads, Inc.

chelsey@collegepads.com