Off-campus apartments near Ohio State
A 0.3-mile walk to campus from South Campus on High Street. Furnished studios, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments built around how Buckeyes actually live, study, and move through their day.
Live where OSU meets the Short North
Peer on 7th sits at 50 E 7th Avenue in Weinland Park, the South Campus pocket where The Ohio State University ends and the Short North Arts District begins. North High Street, the corridor that runs the spine of the OSU experience, passes directly in front of the building. The Oval, Ohio Stadium, the RPAC, and the academic core of campus are all reachable on foot from the front door, and the gallery hop, restaurants, and music venues of the Short North are equally close in the other direction.
Getting to class is straightforward at 0.3 miles to the south edge of campus. Most students choose to walk or bike, but the Campus Area Bus Service (CABS) and COTA's High Street routes serve stops within steps of the building. CABS rides are free with no BuckID required, and COTA rides are free for enrolled OSU students with a valid BuckID. The practical result is that owning a car is optional for daily campus access, which matters when you weigh parking permits, garage waitlists, and gameday gridlock on a typical fall Saturday.
Beyond campus, the surrounding blocks fold into the broader student rhythm of Columbus. Stauf's Coffee Roasters and Buckeye Donuts are within a short walk, North Market and the Short North galleries are a quick bike ride away, and Kroger on High Street handles week-to-week grocery runs in about five minutes on foot. Downtown Columbus is roughly two miles south. Furnished apartments, study lounges, a fitness center, and the rooftop terrace are designed to match the way OSU students actually use their space across a semester.
Every part of OSU, minutes away
Built for every kind of Buckeye routine
Ohio State enrolls more than 67,000 students across the Columbus campus and regional locations, spanning 200+ undergraduate majors and one of the country's largest graduate and professional populations. The buildings, labs, hospitals, and studios that house that work are spread across campus, and where you live shapes how easy it is to keep up with the schedule you actually have. Here is what each major college looks like from Peer on 7th.
College of Arts and Sciences
The largest college at Ohio State, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural and mathematical sciences, and the arts. Departments and classrooms are distributed across central campus, with major hubs at Thompson Library, University Hall, and the science quad.
Arts and Sciences students rotate between Thompson Library, departmental buildings around the Oval, and labs and studios scattered across central campus. Since most weeks involve more than one building, walkability into the heart of campus matters more than proximity to any single college. From Peer on 7th, the most common route is straight up High Street to the south entrance and across the Oval.
For undergraduates juggling general education courses with major requirements, and for graduate students teaching as TAs or working in research labs, the walk-and-bus combination keeps a full schedule manageable without a parking permit. The study lounges and co-working stations at Peer on 7th give you a quiet place to write, code, or read between classes without backtracking to a library seat.
Fisher College of Business
Home to Ohio State's undergraduate business programs, full-time MBA, working professional MBA, and specialized master's degrees. Mason, Schoenbaum, and Gerlach Halls form the Fisher complex on the north side of campus at 2100 Neil Avenue.
Fisher sits on the north side of campus, which makes biking or taking the CABS bus the practical choice from Peer on 7th. The route up Neil Avenue or through campus is a clean, mostly flat ride, and CABS connects directly from High Street stops in about 18 minutes. For working professional MBA students who commute between Fisher and downtown firms, Peer on 7th's position on High Street puts both directions within a manageable trip.
For undergraduates in the BSBA program, the combination of fitness center, study rooms, and rooftop coworking translates directly to how case prep, group projects, and recruiting season actually play out. The Short North also functions as the de facto extension of the Fisher network, with the firms, agencies, and startups that hire OSU business students concentrated within a short ride south.
College of Engineering
One of the largest engineering colleges in the country, with programs in computer science, mechanical, electrical, biomedical, civil, and aerospace engineering. The engineering quad clusters Dreese Labs, Caldwell, Hitchcock, Bolz, and Scott in the central campus core.
Engineering students keep some of the most variable hours on campus, with lab time, project work, and computing clusters that pull into the evenings around exam weeks and senior design deadlines. A seven-minute bike ride or a CABS connection from Peer on 7th gets you to the engineering quad without depending on a single class schedule. For graduate researchers running long experiments, the ride home in the dark is a straight High Street corridor with consistent lighting.
High-speed internet, in-unit washer and dryer, and the 24-hour-style coworking access at the property let you treat coding work, simulation runs, and documentation as part of the same space you live in. Bike racks at the building and the Short North bike lane network make cycling the default for most engineering students who live at Peer on 7th.
College of Medicine & Wexner Medical Center
One of the largest medical schools and academic health systems in the Midwest. Pre-clinical training centers on Hamilton Hall and Prior Health Sciences Library, with clinical rotations across the OSU Wexner Medical Center campus on the west side of OSU.
Medical school is unforgiving on commute time. Early clinical rotations, board-prep study blocks, and overnight call shifts all reward living close enough to walk or bike. Peer on 7th sits 18 minutes on foot or 4 minutes by bike from Hamilton Hall, with CABS routes that connect to the Medical Center for students rotating through the hospital. Skipping the medical campus parking search alone saves a meaningful amount of time across a four-year curriculum.
Pre-med undergraduates in biology, neuroscience, and biomedical sciences benefit from the same proximity. Labs, lectures, and the Prior Health Sciences Library are all within an easy walk, and the study lounges at Peer on 7th give you a quiet place to grind through MCAT prep or organic chemistry without competing for a library carrel.
Moritz College of Law
Ohio State's law school, housed in Drinko Hall at the southern edge of campus. The location puts the law library, moot court, and seminar rooms within a single short walk for students living in the South Campus corridor.
Drinko Hall is one of the closest professional schools to Peer on 7th. The walk runs 13 minutes north up High Street and into the south end of campus, with a 3-minute bike ride as the faster alternative. For JD students who log long library hours and then need to be back early the next morning, that proximity is the difference between a hassle and a non-event.
Most Moritz students do their externship and clinic work either on campus or in downtown Columbus, where the federal and state courts are concentrated. From Peer on 7th, the CABS and COTA connections south to downtown make the externship commute roughly the same drive as the campus walk in the other direction, without needing a car for either.
No car needed. Here's why.
Ohio State runs one of the country's most-used campus transit systems, and the property's location on High Street puts you on the spine of it. CABS, OSU's free Campus Area Bus Service, runs five routes across 46 stops with real-time tracking in the Ohio State app. COTA, the city bus system, is free to ride for enrolled OSU students with a valid BuckID. Between the two, most students at Peer on 7th get to class, the medical center, downtown, and the airport without driving.
High Street, the Short North, and everything in between
South Campus and the Short North share a single corridor, and Peer on 7th sits in the middle of it. Coffee on the way to class, dinner with friends after, a Saturday morning at North Market, and a late-night slice on the way home all fit into a few walkable blocks. The list below is built on real places students go, not generic categories.
- Stauf's Coffee Roasters7 min walk
- Buckeye Donuts10 min walk
- Starbucks on High St3 min walk
- Raising Cane's5 min walk
- Mikey's Late Night Slice8 min walk
- Short North Arts District5 min walk
- Wexner Center for the Arts15 min walk
- Newport Music Hall10 min walk
- Gallery Hop (first Saturdays)5 min walk
- Ace of Cups7 min walk
- Olentangy Trail5 min bike
- Goodale Park15 min walk
- Iuka Park10 min walk
- Weinland Park5 min walk
- The Oval at OSU15 min walk
- Kroger on High Street5 min walk
- Target Express8 min walk
- North Market7 min bike
- CVS Pharmacy6 min walk
- OSU Wexner Medical Center4 min bike
What OSU students actually ask
Is Peer on 7th walkable to The Ohio State University?
Yes. Peer on 7th is 0.3 miles from the south edge of OSU's Columbus campus, putting the property within a short walk of central campus, the Ohio Union, and the academic buildings along the High Street corridor. The route runs along North High Street, which is a major university-adjacent commercial strip with continuous sidewalks, traffic signals at every block, and consistent street lighting throughout the evening.
Walk times to key campus destinations from the front door are 15 minutes to the Ohio Union, 13 minutes to Moritz College of Law, 15 minutes to the Oval, and 18 minutes to the College of Medicine. Most undergraduate and graduate students at Peer on 7th walk or bike to class as their default mode, with CABS and COTA as backup for weather days or longer trips to the north end of campus.
How far is Peer on 7th from the OSU College of Medicine?
The College of Medicine and Hamilton Hall are about 18 minutes on foot, 4 minutes by bike, or 13 minutes by CABS bus from Peer on 7th. The OSU Wexner Medical Center sits just west of central campus, and the bike route from the property runs through OSU's south campus and across into the Medical Center complex.
For students doing clinical rotations or early-morning hospital shifts, the bike option is the most common choice because it removes the medical campus parking variable from the equation. The CABS Med Center Express also serves the hospital, and Peer on 7th's High Street location puts the closest stop within a few minutes of the building.
What bus goes to OSU from Weinland Park?
Two systems serve Peer on 7th. The Campus Area Bus Service (CABS) is OSU's internal transit, free to all riders with no BuckID required. CABS runs five routes including Campus Loop North, Campus Loop South, East Residential, and the Med Center Express, with stops within a short walk of the building. Real-time bus tracking is built into the Ohio State app.
COTA, the Central Ohio Transit Authority, runs Route 2 (North High / East Main) directly past the property with stops at N High Street & McMillen Avenue and N High Street & Euclid Avenue, both about a tenth of a mile from the front door. COTA is free to ride for enrolled OSU students with a valid BuckID swiped on boarding. For students traveling from Peer on 7th to north campus, the medical center, or downtown Columbus, the High Street COTA route is often the fastest option after walking.
Can I live at Peer on 7th without a car as an OSU student?
Most students at Peer on 7th do not own a car. The combination of a 0.3-mile walk to campus, secure on-site bike racks, free CABS service to every corner of OSU, free COTA access with a BuckID, and a Kroger grocery store five minutes away covers a typical week without driving. The Short North restaurants, North Market, and the Olentangy Trail are all within walking or biking distance.
The cost equation also favors not driving. OSU charges hundreds of dollars per semester for a student parking permit and maintains waitlists for prime garage locations. CABS On-Demand and the OSU-supported Lyft Ride Smart program cover overnight transportation between 7 PM and 7 AM at discounted rates, which removes the last typical reason students keep a car at school.
What is the walk from Peer on 7th to campus like at night?
The walk from 50 E 7th Avenue to the south edge of OSU follows North High Street, which is one of Columbus's most heavily used commercial corridors. The sidewalks are continuous along the route, intersections are signal-controlled with marked crosswalks, and street lighting along High Street stays on through the night. Foot and bike traffic along the corridor remains active well into the evening on most weeknights, particularly around restaurants and coffee shops that stay open late.
For students returning later than they want to walk, OSU operates CABS On-Demand overnight through the TripShot app and partners with Lyft Ride Smart to offer discounted rides between 7 PM and 7 AM inside a designated area that includes Peer on 7th. The OSU Public Safety walking escort program is also available to students on or adjacent to campus. The University Police non-emergency line is published on the OSU Department of Public Safety website.
What is off-campus housing near OSU like?
Off-campus housing near OSU falls into three rough buckets: older converted houses on University District side streets, mid-sized apartment buildings along the High Street corridor, and newer purpose-built student communities. Peer on 7th falls in the third category, with fully furnished units, in-unit washer and dryer, modern kitchens with stainless steel appliances, and individually leased bedrooms in shared layouts.
Community amenities that students at Peer on 7th typically use include the rooftop terrace, the resident lounge, the study lounges with co-working stations, the fitness center, the complimentary coffee bar, and the courtyard with firepits and a grilling station. The package room, bike racks, and EV charging cover the practical end of student life. Floor plans and pricing are available on the Peer on 7th floor plans page, and a complete amenity list is on the amenities page.
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