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Dormi for Residence Life

For Residence Life and Housing

Better sleep on campus. Zero cost to your school.

Dormi delivers, installs, and removes premium rental beds for students who want one. Families pay. Your team lifts nothing. And 5% of every dollar goes back to Residence Life.

5 yrsOn campus at Holy Cross
1,000+Students served
4.9★Average rating
2Official campus partners
Dormi crew carrying a mattress into a residence hall during move-in

Official campus partner of

College of the Holy CrossSacred Heart University

Why Residence Life teams say yes

Three things change when Dormi is on campus.

0beds carried by your staff

Move-in day gets easier

Every Dormi bed is installed before move-in and removed after move-out, in windows you set. Nothing comes through the lobby on move-in day, and nothing ends up in your dumpsters in May.

59 minmore sleep, every night

Your students sleep better

Students on a Dormi bed sleep 59 minutes longer per night than they did on a standard mattress and topper. 95% say they sleep significantly better. Rested students show up differently in your halls.

5%back to Residence Life

A bonus for your department

The partnership is free to the university, and Dormi returns 5% of campus revenue to Residence Life each year. Put it toward RA training, hall programming, or wherever your budget needs it.

Sleep figures come from Dormi's own study comparing the same students on their standard mattress and topper versus a Dormi bed.

A student reading on a Dormi mattress in a residence hall room

The bed itself: a full hotel-grade mattress, not a topper. Every one is sealed in a fresh encasement before it enters your building.

How it works

Three steps. That is the whole program.

Families order, we install, we remove.

A student and parent ordering a Dormi bed together on a laptop at the kitchen table
1

Families order online

Students and parents reserve a bed on dormibeds.com over the summer. Nothing runs through your office.

Same dorm bed before and after a Dormi mattress is installed
2

We install before move-in

Our crew puts every bed in place, encased and made, before students arrive. The school mattress goes into storage we arrange.

Dormi crew wheeling an encased mattress from a residence hall to the truck after move-out
3

We remove after move-out

Students leave the bed behind. We collect it, put your mattress back on the frame, and the room is ready for next year.

You provide

  • One point of contact in Housing or Res Life
  • Building access for a day or two at each end of the year
  • A mention in housing communications (optional, we write it)

Dormi handles

  • Orders, payment, and parent questions
  • Delivery, installation, encasements, and bed-making
  • Room changes, pickup, cleaning, and storage

References

Talk to the people who run it.

Start with Greg Madrid at Sacred Heart.

Greg MadridSacred Heart University
Start hereGreg Madrid, Executive Director of Residential LifeSacred Heart University. Greg can speak to his onboarding and first-year experience with Dormi.madridg@sacredheart.edu
Email Greg
Ed CoolbaughCollege of the Holy Cross
Ed Coolbaugh, Director of Housing OperationsCollege of the Holy Cross. Partner since 2021.ecoolbau@holycross.edu
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"They work well with our office and facilities. They have been organized and I have enjoyed working with them."
Ed CoolbaughDirector of Housing Operations, College of the Holy Cross
"Families on move-in day were very, very complimentary about the customer service and the value."
Michele Murray, Ph.D.President, AJCU. Former SVP for Student Development, College of the Holy Cross
"We love Dormi. This is the only group that we allow to bring in beds to our campus."
Antonio Willis-BerryFormer Director of Residence Life & Housing, College of the Holy Cross
Three college students laughing together on a bed in a residence hall room

The case for the room

A third of a student's year happens on the mattress.

Students spend about a third of their time on campus in bed. A comfortable room is a reason to live on campus, and a reason to come back next year.

Dormi gives your halls a hotel-grade option at no cost to you. Students who sleep well in your buildings choose them again.

1/3of a student's time on campus is spent in bed.
  • OccupancyOne more reason to choose the dorm over an off-campus lease.
  • RetentionStudents who like their room come back.

The bonus, by the numbers

What Dormi looks like at your scale.

Enter your on-campus bed count. We estimate how many students opt in, how much floor space your stored school mattresses need, and what comes back to Residence Life.

Your total on-campus beds.

Assumes 10% to 15% of students opt in at $379 a year, with 5% back to Residence Life.
Students on a Dormi bed550 to 825per year
Storage for your school mattresses

963 to 1,444 sq ft

About the size of 6 to 9 parking spaces. No space? Dormi pays for off-site storage.

Bonus back to Residence Life each year$10,423 to $15,634at zero cost to the university

Estimates. We will run exact numbers for your campus on the call.

The questions we always get

Fair questions, straight answers.

These are the concerns directors raise most often. If yours is not here, ask us on the call.

What does this cost the university?

Nothing. There is no fee, no minimum, and no purchase order. Families who want a Dormi bed rent one directly from us. The money flows the other way: Dormi pays 5% of campus revenue back to Residence Life every year.

Our halls already have beds. Why would students need this?

Most students buy a foam topper for the school mattress, then throw it away in May. Dormi replaces that cycle with a full hotel-style mattress that is delivered, encased, and made before they arrive. It is an upgrade some families choose, not a replacement for what you provide. The school's own mattress stays the school's, and we coordinate with your team on where it lives during the year.

Where do our school mattresses go while a Dormi bed is in the room?

We store them and bring them back. If you have storage on campus, we use it. If you do not, Dormi pays for off-site storage and handles transport both ways. Your mattress goes back on the frame at move-out.

Stored upright, each mattress takes under two square feet of floor. The calculator above shows the footprint for your campus.

How much work is this for my staff, especially on move-in day?

Across a full year it is roughly one planning meeting and two building-access windows. Beds are installed before students arrive, in a window you approve, so on move-in day there is nothing to carry, nothing in the elevator, and nothing for RAs to manage. At move-out, students leave the bed in the room and we collect it afterward, so no foam ends up in your dumpsters.

Orders, billing, parent questions, and room changes all run through Dormi's support team and the My Dormi customer portal, not your office. Holy Cross has run this way for five years.

Will it fit our beds, including lofted and bunked rooms?

We match whatever your halls use: twin, twin XL, full, and other sizes. Our standard mattress is 14 inches tall.

Guardrail clearance matters on lofted and bunked beds, so during setup we review your bed configurations and guardrail heights with your facilities team and agree on which rooms are eligible before anything is ordered.

How do you keep the beds clean, safe, and free of bed bugs?

Every mattress is sealed before it enters your building. Each bed gets a brand-new, tamper-proof encasement that is bedbug-proof, waterproof, stain-proof, and hypoallergenic, plus a mattress protector on top. The encasement is replaced every year, so no student sleeps on a surface another student has touched.

At the end of each year every mattress is cleaned, inspected, and re-encased before it is redeployed. Every mattress meets federal mattress flammability standards and is made with UL GREENGUARD Gold certified materials. We are happy to walk your facilities or risk team through the specifications and our insurance documentation before you commit.

Is this fair to students who cannot afford it?

Dormi is an opt-in choice, priced close to what families already spend on toppers and bedding over four years, and it is never required or implied as required. The 5% returned to Residence Life is unrestricted; some partners put part of it toward programming that reaches every resident, and you are free to direct it toward access initiatives if that matters to your campus.

Can we talk to a school that already does this?

Yes. Start with Greg Madrid, Executive Director of Residential Life at Sacred Heart University, at madridg@sacredheart.edu. He can walk you through onboarding and his first year with Dormi.

Ed Coolbaugh, Director of Housing Operations at Holy Cross, at ecoolbau@holycross.edu, can speak to five years as a partner.

From your residents and their families

Happy families mean fewer calls to your office.

★★★★★

"The mattress was already in my daughter's room on move-in day, ready to go. No fooling around with mattress toppers or covers. Just put the sheets on and the room already felt homey. She raves about it so much that when she came home for the weekend she complained about the mattress at home."

Kim F.Parent, Sacred Heart University
★★★★★

"The sleep I got this semester with a Dormi bed was much better than any I had last semester. I woke up most days not feeling tired at all. The beds are extremely comfortable and do not even require a mattress topper."

Caleb D.Student athlete, on-campus rental
★★★★★

"My daughter loved her Dormi mattress. When she came home for break she told me she missed her bed at school. As a parent I loved that I didn't need to buy a mattress topper or lug it to her dorm and home. It was in her room when we arrived and picked up after we moved out."

Sarah F.Parent, on-campus rental

Next step

Fifteen minutes is enough to know if this fits your campus.

Book a quick call, or get the one-page summary to forward to your director, facilities, or the VP who signs off.

Prefer email? Write to Will Spangenberg, Co-Founder, at will@dormibeds.com.

Get the one-pager

We will email it within one business day. No newsletter, no follow-up sequence.