Finding a Roommate
Most students at the BUMC will be looking for a roommate to share an apartment and help drive down housing costs. The OHR has two main services devoted to assisting students in finding a roommate:
1. The official OHR roommate-matching database, open only to students here at the BUMC, and password protected.
2. The ePrio roommate-matching service, a confidential and peer-to-peer system designed to match students with only roommates who meet certain criteria.
Please feel free to make use of either or both systems. For the OHR roommate-matching database, you will need either a BU kerberos password, and a temporary password that the OHR can provide you. For the ePrio system, students will need an official invitation to join the system that the OHR can generate for them.
There are also a number of online tools students can use to find roommates in the Boston area that are not under the control of the OHR. Bostonroommates.com is one of the better sites available. It allows you to search from a number of different schools in the Boston area, and it’s free.
