Boston College plans to restrict off-campus housing options to prohibitively expensive residences once dormitories called for by the school’s 10-year, $800-million expansion are completed.

BC’s Institutional Master Plan calls for the addition of 610 beds over the next 10 years. The project aims to house 92 percent of the undergraduate population, BC officials said.

The administration will limit students’ off-campus options to apartment complexes close to campus, said BC off-campus life committee chairman Sean Scanlon.

Once construction of new dormitories is complete, BC plans to limit students’ off-campus accommodation to 2000 Commonwealth Ave., an apartment-style residence near campus where a two-bedroom unit now costs $1,875 each month, Scanlon said.

“[The residence] is extremely expensive and is one of very few places where students would be allowed to live,” Scanlon said.

The college hopes to have only 600 students living off-campus, and it claims to be looking out for the shared town-gown interests, BC spokesman Jack Dunn said.

“We feel [students] have been gouged by absentee landlords in one- and two-family houses where they can fit more students,” Dunn said. “We don’t want students to contribute to decreasing the availability of housing for other families in the Brighton area.”

BC Student Senate Vice President Andrew Doyle said the college’s move is an attempt to placate neighborhood residents opposed to expansion into Brighton.

“If Boston College wants to expand, it must give the residents something in return,” Doyle said. “Restricting students from living in homes is the step Boston College has to take to get this done.”

Doyle said BC has a history of communication problems with the Undergraduate Government of Boston College and feels the student government has been left out of the decision to limit housing options.

BC’s apartment restriction policy would affect the real estate market and businesses in the Brighton area, said Bostonpads.com owner Demetrius Salpoglou.

Salpoglou said moving students into dorms would decrease the high demand for properties in the area and lower rents. The BC policy would slow the housing market in the neighborhood, he said.

Boston University spokesman Colin Riley said BU houses 90 percent of undergraduate students and does not plan to consider restricting students’ choices for off-campus housing.

“There is no need for BU to consider such a policy because BU guarantees housing to undergraduates as long as they stay in the housing system,” Riley said.