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CO L LE GE CO RNER

What type
of student
accommodation
suits you?

While colleges and universities might offer accommodation facilities to students from far away, most of
the time they fall short. Often, many students are unable to consider studying at a college or university
as the accommodation options are limited or too expensive. Parents whose children want to study in
a particular college or university need to consider this. Students who fund their way into college or
university also need to add the cost of accommodation into their budget.
Every kind of student accommodation available in and around colleges and universities has its own
advantages and disadvantages. Here is the lowdown on each:

On-campus hostel
accommodation
Most universities offer accommodation
to first-year students, which is usually
a choice between student hostels oncampus or apartments off-campus. If
you choose to live in student hostels,
you will most likely have a roommate or
two, with a shared bathroom and dining
hall. Staying off campus in a student
apartment meanshaving housemates.
It may be difficult to decide whether to
live on-campus, so here is a list of the
advantages and disadvantages of living
on campus to help you decide:

Pros
• On-campus accommodation is usually
the most affordable, and you don’t
have to go room-hunting off-campus.
• With visitors requiring permission to
enter the university grounds and being
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prohibited from many parts of the
hostel grounds, living on-campus is
safer with the tighter security around.
• Living on-campus is convenient as you
do not have to travel far to attend
classes and extracurricular activities,
which can be held until late in the
evening and even at nig