Banasthali University is a residential institution. A student admitted to the University will compulsorily have to join a hostel unless the student is ward of a worker of the University and stays with him/her in the campus or the student belongs to a neighbouring village community within a radius of 2.5 Km. There are 23 student hostels in campus of the University. There is different number of rooms in each hostel ranging from 80 to 120. All rooms are well furnished with basic amenities provided. Each hostel has a separate Mess, Newspaper and Telephone facility
The addition of the two hostels Shri Shanta Aziram and Shri Shanta Niveshnam is a history as Banasthali University became the only University in Rajasthan and only the second in India to provide Personal Computers (PC) in every room of the hostel with Internet connectivity to the PG students, residents of the hostels. Three more hostels are under construction (Shri Shanta Puri, Shri Shanta Nigam and Shri Shanta Pitham),The complete list of hostels is as under:
|
S.No.
|
Hostel Name
|
Capacity |
| 1 |
Shri Shanta Bai Shiksha Kutir
|
135
|
| 2 |
|
190 |
| 3 |
Shri Shanta Vishwa needam |
225 |
| 4 |
|
185 |
| 5 |
|
160 |
| 6 |
|
100 |
| 7 |
|
75 |
| 8 |
|
140 |
| 9 |
|
75 |
| 10 |
|
55 |
| 11 |
|
105 |
| 12 |
|
310 |
| 13 |
|
140 |
| 14 |
|
150 |
| 15 |
|
155 |
| 16 |
|
240 |
| 17 |
|
240 |
| 18 |
|
300 |
| 19 |
|
240 |
| 20 |
|
240 |
| 21 |
|
240 |
| 22 |
Shri Shantalok
|
300 |
|
23 |
|
400 |
One can see that all the hostels are named after 'Shanta bai' and students of the University are treated as the daughters of the University.