5 colleges with the best hostels in India

 

Indian colleges these days are known to offer you with the most luxurious accommodations which can give even the best hotels a run for their money. Be it the spacious rooms or the picturesque views from the hostel, you can find it all at your educational institution and such things are sure to make learning even more fun.

Shiksha lists some Indian colleges which are known to have the best hostels in the country primarily because of the kind of accommodation, capacity and facilities which they offer students.

 

NIT Warangal

This educational institution is known to have the best and largest single building not only in India but in the whole of Asia, as well. The biggest hostel at NIT Warangal is called the ‘Ultra Mega Hostel’ which houses PG and BTech students. The hostel has 10 floors with 120 rooms in each floor. The rooms are both single and double seated and have a total capacity to lodge 1,800 students. Apart from this, the college has a ‘Mega Hostel’ as well which has a capacity to comfortably accommodate 1,000 students.

Other hostels at NIT Warangal are as follows:

Boys Hostels
Block Name	No. of rooms	Single/Double	Total Capacity
Azad Hall(S)	100	Single-100	98
Bose Hall(S)	100	Single-100	98
Ambedkar Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Babha Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Gandhi Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Gokhale Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Radhakrishnan Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Raman Hall(T)	48	Double-48	94
Nehru Hall(S)	100	Single-100	98
Patel Hall(S)	100	Single-100	98
Tagore Hall(D)	48	Double-48	94
Viswesvraya Hall(D)	48	Double-48	94
Rajendra Prasad Hall(S)	202	Single-202	198
Vikram Sarabhai Hall(S)	200	Single-200	198
1K Hall of Residence	1050	Single-1050	1050
Ultra Mega Hostel	1194	Single-640 Double-554	640+ 1108 =1748
International Students Hall	200	Single-200	200

 

Girls Hostels
Block Name	No. of rooms	Single/Double	Total Capacity
Priyadarshini Hall	75	Triple-75	225
Sarojini Hall	65	Double-65	130
New Ladies Hostel-A	120	Single-120	120
New Ladies Hostel-B	110	Single-110	110
New Ladies Hostel-C	90	Single-90	90

Click here to read about how life actually is at NIT Warangal.

 

BIT Mesra

A fully residential campus, BIT Mesra has eleven hostels for boys and three separate ones for girls. The college houses approximately 3,200 undergraduate and postgraduate students along with 2,000 members of the faculty and staff. The hostel area is full of greenery.

The official website reveals that, “Each male-student is provided with well-furnished single-accommodation while girls share their accommodation in spacious and adequately furnished rooms. Individual rooms are constructed in a row with a wide veranda for common use running along the length of passage. Common facilities at the hostel include dining halls and common rooms with provision for several indoor games. The reading room in each hostel subscribes to a large number of magazines, periodicals and newspapers. The entertainment hall in each hostel has a colour television set. Each hostel has an independent mess, completely run and managed by the students themselves”.

BIT Mesra also holds inter-hostel tournaments which include quizzes as well as indoor and outdoor games.

The 'Hostel Night' organised by resident students is a memorable yearly event where students interact with the faculty members and many cultural programmes also take place.

IIM Ahmedabad

This b-school has two sets of hostels one is the old dorm area and the other is called the new dorm area. The old dorm area is part of the heritage campus and was designed by Louis Kahn, renowned American architect in the 1960s. The old dorm area has a lot of cross-ventilation and so is comfortable to stay in. The new campus is just a road away and is connected by an underground tunnel.

The official website of IIM-A says, “There are 25 student dormitories with a total capacity to hold about 740 occupants. Apart from the dormitories there are separate housing facilities available for married candidates. The dorms have ten single rooms on each floor arranged around a stairway and a tearoom”.

MICA

All student housing buildings at Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA) are red bricked, double storey with a total capacity to accommodate 400+ students. These hostels are named after Indian trees and flowers such as Champa, Chandni, Chinar, Kachnar, Parijat, Amaltas, Gulmohar and Palaash. In addition, MICA has an international student’s hostel called Silver Oak.

Students are mostly offered double sharing rooms in their first year and single occupancy ones are given to them from 2nd year onwards.

IIT Guwahati

The picturesque campus of IIT Guwahati has nine full-fledged hostels, including one girls’ hostel and one new boys’ hostel. The names of the boys’ hostels are Brahmaputra, Kapili, Dihing, Dibang, Manas, Kameng, Umiam, Siang and Barak whereas the girls’ hostel is called Subansiri. The hostel provides single seater accommodation.

“Each hostel has a multipurpose common room, a TV room where the environment gets really hot during Indo-Pak matches and the English Premier League, a TT room, carom and a gym, a volley ball court or a badminton court, depending on the hostel you find yourself in, along with a multi-purpose playground. In addition, there is also the reading room where you will find the latest magazines and a plethora of newspapers. Each room in every hostel is connected to the institute LAN (Local Area Network). Internet facility is provided in individual rooms”, states the official website.