Hyderabad : With a large number of students joining in the university, the university is planning to add two more hostels to the campus. One for men and the other one for women. The hostels will be constructed in multi-storey structures, the beds will have around 300 in each. 

These hostels are in addition to the existing hostels house around 12,000 students in which 18 hostels including 7 for women and 11 for men on the campus. The OU hostels also reside students studying in the campus colleges of the university, students from other constituent colleges like Nizam College, University College for Women, Koti, University PG College, Secunderabad, University College of Science, Saifabad.

OU plans to convert one building in the University College of Science, Saifabad, into a hostel and provide required hostel facilities in all its constituent colleges. 

Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority constructed Nizam College Women’s Hostel with an estimated cost of Rs 8 crore was inaugurated recently by the Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) KT Rama Rao. Now this hostel can house 284 students. Recently the university has opened a new 500-bed centenary hostel meant for girls on the campus. 

The hostel which was built at a cost of Rs 37.5 crore from the University and RUSA funds has reading rooms, a spacious dining hall, and a state-of-the-art kitchen. Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Prof. D Ravinder said “Given the high enrollments in the university campus colleges, there is a need for new hostel facilities. We are planning to construct two new hostels – one each for men and women – on the campus. This will be proposed in the upcoming budget of the university”.