High-End Higher Learning: These 10 Colleges Have the Sexiest Off-Campus Buildings

These are not your parents' dorm rooms. The decadent digs at these 10 schools are enough to make you want to bear calculus all over again.

1. University of Arizona—Tuscon

Complex name: The Hub

Developer: Core Spaces

Price per bed: $1.5k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: Tucson, AZ

Wake up, enjoy tunes using the shower head's Bluetooth, then grab your swimsuit from the walk-in closet and head to the rooftop pool. Or you could always chill on the hammocks, grill and watch the giant flat-screen in the courtyards. These Wildcats know how to live.

2. University of Georgia

Complex name: The Standard

Developer: American Campus Communities

Price per bed: $1.1k/mo (studio)

Location: Athens, GA

These off-campus dorms let UGA students enjoy racquetball, game rooms, saunas, pool and a golf simulator, when they aren't coronating bulldogs, that is.

3. University of Berkeley

Complex name: Avalon Berkeley

Developer: AvalonBay Communities

Price per bed: $2.6k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: Berkeley

Private terraces and views of the Golden Gate, Bay and Richmond-San Rafael bridges to take students' mind off their studies, plus a self-serve pet salon—for emergency dog-grooming.

4. New York University

Complex name: Avalon Bowery Apartments

Developer: AvalonBay Communities

Price per bed: $4.5k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: New York City

Avalon clearly knows its way around student housing. A couple of blocks from NYU's Greenwich Hall, this complex has a rooftop terrace kept toasty with grills, outdoor heaters and a fire pit. It even includes a parking garage (priceless in NYC), although for this building Avalon didn't think students needed a pet salon.

5. Louisiana State University

Complex name: Sterling Burbank

Developer: The Dinerstein Cos

Price per bed: $1.3k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: Baton Rouge

The palm trees, lazy river and private beach at this off-campus (resort?) complex make college feel like a tropical vacation—as if having New Orleans an hour away wasn't enough distraction for LSU students.

6. Yale University

Complex Name: Winchester Lofts

Developer: Forest City Enterprises

Price per bed: $1.5k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: New Haven

This site of the historic Winchester Arms Factory is now filled with a 24-hour fitness center, study lounges and a game room. Yale students know what type of life to expect from a Yale degree—students in the cozy Winchester lofts are getting those perks early.

7. University of Florida

Complex Name: Ivy House

Developer: Trimark Properties

Price per bed: $735/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: Gainesville

Ivy House has a sun deck, jacuzzis, a gourmet kitchen and a fireplace—but, sorry guys, it's ladies only. It may be off-campus, but it's closer to some UF buildings than many dorms, and is less expensive, despite being luxury housing.

8. University of Miami

Complex Name: Gables Ponce Apartments

Developer: Gables Residential

Price per bed: $2k/month (one-bedroom unit)

Location: Coral Gables, FL

Students at "the U" can lounge in private cabanas and under palm trees around the heated pool (for those 75 degree winters) at Gables Ponce Apartments. If the poolside environment isn't Zen enough they can pop in the sauna...or the complex's actual Zen garden.

9. University of Wisconsin

Complex Name: The Hub

Developer: Core Spaces

Price per bed: $1.2k/month (studio)

Location: Madison, WI

"The Hub" is back, migrating north to give students private balconies, hot-tub terraces and tanning beds to last the Wisconsin winter. And, as in Tucson, the shower heads have speakers.

10. University of Missouri

Complex Name: Aspen Heights

Developer: Aspen Heights Partners

Price per bed: $600/month (two-bedroom town home)

Location: Columbia, MO

Mizzou can claim America's first homecoming game along with some sweet off-campus pads. Streaming movies on Netflix just doesn't cut it in Aspen Heights, which holds a movie theater along with the usual luxury perks like a swimming pool, basketball court and tanning beds.

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