Closer to the city than to the campus, so this suits UNIL and city-centre life more than EPFL. Malley has been rebuilt around the station and there is more new stock here than anywhere else on this list.
Landlords in Prilly and Malley ask for the same file as anywhere in the canton: a debt-collection extract, proof of income, and a guarantor who lives in Switzerland. Two of those are impossible before you arrive, which is why flatshares and private landlords are the realistic route from abroad.
Your deposit is capped at three months of net rent — up to CHF 3'450 at the top of the range here — and it is blocked in your own name, not the landlord's. How the deposit works
We co-sign leases so the file gets accepted, and we search the market when our own rooms are full.