Assessment of Students' Housing in the University of Uyo, Nigeria

Abstract

Housing is a complex process that transverses a vast array of components, institution, socioeconomic and historic dimension. In the academic environment, housing has proven to be of immense need to accommodate many students. However, the condition of Students housing in most Nigerian Universities has generated a lot of challenges which sometimes are beyond the University management. For the purpose of collecting data, a population size of 2,700 students were  identified through the Student Affairs Division, University of Uyo as total number of students living in hostels. However, the study adopted cross sectional survey design using structured questionnaire administered to three hundred and eighty seven (387) students living in different hostels in Town and Annex campuses of the University using random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive and Relative Important Index to examine the level of students' satisfaction of hostel facilities on eight indicators of physical, social and management factors. The study concluded that there is Moderate level of students' satisfaction with housing in the University which shows significant level at 49%, 54% and 55% in physical, social and management factors respectively. The study recommends that the university management should partner with private organization or NGO's to build more hostels for both male and female students. They should also adopt appropriate option like "Build, Recover and Return" which will allow private investors to develop hostels, manage them for a number of years (say 30years) and then return it to the University