This seems more like a problem with your uni's firewall than with any VPN solution. If they're locking things down so hard, why do they allow you to set up an a

This seems more like a problem with your uni's firewall than with any VPN solution. If they're locking things down so hard, why do they allow you to set up an arbitrary VPN just by using TCP and :443? If OTOH they want to allow you to use a VPN, they should allow at least some UDP traffic. The way God intended BTW because running VPN traffic over TCP usually means running error detection and flow control twice on top of each other. Sure, some of the value of a VPN is running through misconfigured and outright hostile networks, hence various encapsulation schemes (over SSL, in DNS requests, etc), but only some of the value.