SRM University, Chennai - Hostels and Facilities

Vadapalani being in the heart of Chennai has well-connected transportation facilities and hostel facilities in Ramapuram with bus services for both boys and girls. Also, PGs are available nearby itself for those who dont feel comfortable with the hostel. All the classrooms are air-conditioned, and the labs are well-equipped. The library consists of a wide- range of books that are informative for all the courses. Canteen is well-maintained with proper food. It also has lift facilities, auditorium and 2-wheeler parking facilities.

The Kattankulathur campus of SRM University has a wide array of hostels on offer throughout the campus with facilities ranging from AC to non-AC, attached washrooms to non-attached washrooms, two-sharing to three-sharing. A separate block in the campus is devoted to boys hotels and a different unattached section is devoted to the girls'. There are 14 blocks assigned to men's hostels with capacities varying from 200 to 1000 students in each block. The total capacity in the boys' block is approximately 7500. The men's hostels include Adhiayaman, Paari, Kaari, Oori, Nelson Mandela, Pierre Fauchard (PF), Manoranjitham, Thamarai, Agasthiyar, Sanyasi (A, B and C block) and a few others. With the exception of Nelson Mandela, Adhiyaman and Sanyasi C Block, the rest of the hostels are non-AC. The men's block houses 4 messes which serve breakfast, lunch, evening snacks and dinner at pre-established timings. One of these messes are singularly devoted to freshers to avoid any incident of ragging. The facilities available to the men's hostels are TV rooms, table-tennis boards and badminton tracks in the alley outside.

• The hostel fees in different hostels vary according to the facilities available and range from 99,500 to 1,19,000 excluding mess fees. The laundry fees have to be paid separately to avail the laundry services available in the hostel premises. The mess fees are INR 55,000 for vegetarian and nonvegetarian food. As such, the quality of food in the mess is decent and hygienic although the lack of variety often hinges on the alarming. 
• The classrooms in the campus are mostly AC-enabled in a few buildings while those established for mechanical, electrical or such departments lack any air conditioning except in departmental libraries. The classrooms usually house 60-70 students and boast smart technology, projectors, a podium and a bias for the lecturer and comfortable cushioned chairs for the students. There is a public announcement (PA) system in each classroom for emergencies or for announcements of a dire nature. The laboratories in the campus are well-developed and maintained and boast of modern technology and the latest equipment. Each laboratory has a special lab attendant allowed to it, who is in charge of the technical functioning and operability of the devices in the laboratories. The Wi-Fi signal is accessible throughout campus and is unlimited for all registered students in the campus. 
• The central library in the campus is four-storeyed and boasts of a wide array of books on several topics such as technology, art, literature, sociology, medical, humanities, fiction and non-fiction among a wide array of others. The central library is air-conditioned and can be accessed using the identity card of each student which includes a magnetic chip which serves as a memory device. The reading halls are vast and immense in the library and there are separate sections allocated to each division.

The hostels provide 2 and 3 sharing rooms for students, with the option of AC and non AC rooms. Hostel fee for non AC rooms usually comes up to about 1.1 to 1.3 lakhs per year and, for AC rooms, 2 to 2.1 lakhs per year, inclusive of mess fee. The rooms are decent and are cleaned semi-regularly. The wifi speeds are unpredictable but usually decent early in the morning. The food served in the mess is not the best. The conditions are unhygienic and the food is usually not healthy either.

Due to the high cost of the AC rooms and the less than appealing mess food, most students opt to shift to rented apartments in the nearby area. Transport is affordable via the share auto service in Chennai.