At the University the living spaces are owned by students and hence they are called residences. These spaces bring together students from diverse backgrounds, providing an excellent opportunity to learn to accommodate people from across cultures. Residential life offers a range of structured activities and informal opportunities to help students develop into socially sensitive and responsible citizens. Residences provide a safe and inclusive environment through clear policies against discrimination, harassment, and ragging. Our residences are comfortable and conducive for academic endeavours.

Hostels at Bengaluru

In Bengaluru the students reside in the forty-storied skyscraper called Nalanda. The architecture of the Bengaluru campus is designed to create an engaging experience that sparks curiosity in its young residents. Its layout gives a sense of vastness and clearly divides different spaces, helping to integrate elements like landscapes, interiors, structure, utilities, and services. 

Hostels at Bhopal

In Bhopal the students reside in an on-campus hostel that draws inspiration from the local architecture of Madhya Pradesh and influences the campus design, borrowing design elements from Sanchi, Mandu and other historical sites of the state. Due to limited capacity of our on-campus hostel in Bhopal, the university also provides accommodation to students in an external hostel.

At the University, all students would agree that the Student Residence buildings have a spirit of its own. The tales of waiting for a lift or running into a friend near the biometrics are endless. Reading the newspaper on a lazy Sunday morning or a late-night film in the common rooms are some memories that students cherish. While some floors have common rooms with cushioned sofas and living-room chairs for late-night discussions, others are study rooms with night lighting; some others are designed as Yoga spaces, while others with floored seating.

As well-designed as the architecture is, the true vitality of the residences comes from the resident mentors, who keep up the spirit of these flourishing spaces. The resident mentors, who stay at the residences, host weekly discussion sessions, meditation meets and several other fun activities. 

One can always hear of events and activities in residences, whether it is a book donation or a musical Wednesday session. Discussion circles around menstruation, substance abuse and other matters of relevance to university students are always discussed openly in a sensitised and perceptive light. 

The residences become a perennial enclave for students to form memories with friends, classmates, seniors, residence mentors, with oneself and with the university, that would go on to become a springboard of blissful nostalgia.