Jahangirnagar University has 22 dormitories. Sixteen of them are old and six others have been constructed recently under the university's "further development project"
“The room is detrimental. We have to sleep on the floor, with 8 people in one room. In the first year, we had some 35-40 students in one room, one bigger than this one. There’s not even enough space to keep our luggage. The cement keeps peeling off the ceiling, you can see the rod popping out of the ceiling,” said Salman Habib , a resident of Surja Sen Hall, Dhaka University.