News of the site spread fast. After attracting national and international media attention, it has 800 registered members, with a higher proportion being male, reports said.
eduHookups.com -- formerly UChicago Hookups.com -- now welcomes members from Northwestern University and Columbia College Chicago. The site will also be open to Brown University students from April 4.
Users must have an .edu email to register on the site, but can post listings requesting anything from romance right through to "no strings" sex and even affairs.
A message on the site explains that it was initially intended as a project and learning experience by a small team of University of Chicago undergraduates to change the old belief that UChicago is a place were "fun comes to die’ and ‘the squirrels are cuter than the girls and more aggressive than the guys."
“eduHookups was, is, and always will be targeted towards students who believe working hard and having fun are not mutually exclusive,” the statement continued.
Officials at the university have not yet commented on the establishment of the website.
