LEGON HALL
AKUAFO HALL
COMMONWEALTH HALL
MENSAH SARBAH HALL
VOLTA HALL
Beyond these, there are the hostels on or near the campus. They are patronized by those who can afford them. Landlords/ladies of houses near the school also earn a considerable amount of income renting rooms out to students. Many of them renovate large rooms and furnish them with bunks and rent them out at high prices.Now there is a very severe accommodation problem on Legon campus. It is a great headache for the administrators as well as the students of the school. This has been caused by at least these major factors:1. A great increase in applications and admissions to the school by students and administrators without a commensurate improvement of residential facilities. (There have been rapid developments of such facilities on and near the school in the past two years or so, but these have only eased the problem a little).2. The fact that the school is located in an urban area which is already crowded. It is not even at the outskirts of the city of Accra. This is unlike the University of Cape Coast, for example which is in a rural area, leading to a less severe accommodation problem there.The effects of this problem are obvious:There is overcrowding in the main halls of residence. People who are able to get accommodation also entertain "perchers".There is also poor sanitation where the students live. Rubbish bins placed quickly start overflowing after they are emptied. Toilets and bathrooms get unbearable within hours if water stops flowing.Students can hardly learn in their halls of residence. There is a lot of noise and rowdiness. They usually have to go to the various reading rooms and libraries in the halls of residence and departments. Vacancies at these places are even harder to get near or during end of semester examinations.The authorities have been grappling with this problem, introducing several accommodation policies, such as ‘in-out-out-in’, ‘in-out-out-out’, ‘out-out-out-in’, etc. Now here is an explanation.The academic calendar is made up of four years of study for a student. A student may be granted accommodation in one of the main halls of residence for a year or more. The year(s) of accommodation can be his/her first, second third or fourth year(s). This is expressed as in ‘in-out-out-in’, for example. Thus ‘in-out-out-in’ means that the student is granted accommodation in the first year. In the second and third years s/he will not be given accommodation. Then in the final year s/he can be given accommodation again.It is not certain whether a student will be granted accommodation in your ‘in’ year. Balloting (in which students who will be given accommodation are chosen at random) is sometimes practiced. The students who get picked are given ‘beds’ in the main halls of residence.
