The office of the Dean of Students Makerere University has released accommodation guidelines for all first-year students of the 2018/2019 academic year. In the document, that is dated June 2018, all undergraduate students shall be attached to a hall of residence as part of their identity. This, however, doesn’t entitle each of them to bed space in halls.
The guidelines list a total of 18 courses that have automatic hall residence for government-sponsored students unless the eligible student gives reason to stay out. They include among others, all Engineering courses, all Medical School courses, Agricultural School courses, Veterinary Medicine and Law. The rest of the courses don’t have automatic residence and are subject to available bed space.
The document also advises non-resident government-sponsored students to register with the warden’s office at their respective halls of attachment upon arrival at campus, indicating banks and account numbers to which their accommodation allowances shall always be posted.
In the accommodation guidelines, all privately-sponsored students are admitted as non-residents and only those who apply for accommodation space where available and pay for it will become residents. Private students that are interested in the on-campus accommodation are advised to apply for bed space to the Dean of Students in Room 214, Senate Building at the university.
The students that were admitted to external programmes are not eligible for full-time accommodation in the halls of residence and therefore need not apply.
Change of Halls of attachment is also strictly prohibited except in cases where gender was accidentally mixed up.
