I threw this together in case people here are from out of state or unfamiliar with Austin, UT or what we call West Campus. These drone flyovers are dated as recent (I have no affiliation with whoever took them, they were just in a google search). Sometimes it helps to see a place for scale and density because what one person pictures in their mind as off-campus housing is very different than someone else. Hope it helps!
Youtube flyover of UT (date says 4 months old) - the shots looks west then pans south down IH35 towards downtown and then pan west again. The high rises in the distance beyond the UT Tower are what we call “West Campus”, not offically part of UT (UT does own 1 of those off-campus high rise apartments over there though where the UT Global office and West Campus UTPD satellite offices are also situated on its 1st floor). This shot doesnt show the baseball/softball/graduate apartment complex behind the opening sequence on the other side of IH35 (east side) or the myriad of small houses and condos in what they call North Campus where older students and grad students tend to rent.
This is a drone flyover from the West Campus perspective - mostly looking east towards the UT campus or south towards downtown. Many of the high rises you see here are student housing (anyone can live in most of these but the majority of occupants are students). There are also several private dorms here which are students only and lots of greek houses and smaller old apartments/condos that will eventually become more “luxury” high rises with the rate of growth in Austin.