A quick search found this: http://hubski.com/pub?id=28531 I assume it's still the case as the source doesn't turn up in the search.

I don't game very much, but I love a bit of tf2. I might see you in game...

If there's no wired solution, then mobile or satellite are probably your only options.

If you can get good 3G or LTE in the apartment then mobile broadband will probably be perfectly sufficient. I would take a look around for a cheap operator. Here in the UK we have one called GiffGaff who offer unlimited data for £12 a month. You probably won't be able to use it for huge amounts of video streaming, but apart from that it should be perfectly sufficient.

Satellite broadband is also surprisingly good. I have a friend who has 18mbps down over satellite, although the data cap is quite low and it's expensive.

I guess you could speak to the university or real estate people and see if you can get them to set up some sort of wireless link to the apartments; it's perfectly possible over 1km using standard wifi if you have line of site. That would rely on the connection at the other end having bandwidth to spare, however.