The St. Xavier’s College Hostel is housed within the St. Xavier’s College campus itself. It is an all-boys hostel with thirty two-seater rooms, fifteen on each of the two residential floors of the hostel. There are five guestrooms on the other floors. Three of these are self-contained.
On the sixth floor there is a spacious Common Room for recreation, TV, indoor games, newspaper reading and meetings and get-togethers that may be held from time to time.
The hostel is meant for degree students of the college who are admitted on the basis of class seniority. Preference is given to students of the Basic and Natural Sciences.
Those taken into the hostel are generally out-station students or others who may have accommodation that may be too crowded and not conducive to study.
Better academic performance and all-round personal growth are expected of hostelites and the rules and regulations are for the purpose of attaining these goals. For re-admission, hostelites have to get a minimum of 60% in the examinations of the previous year and an acceptable level of attendance at lectures.
A Hostel Managing Committee runs the hostel, the Chairperson of which is the Principal of the College. The day-to day running of the hostel is done by the Hostel Superintendent who resides on the hostel premises itself. He is assisted by a supervisor, and other staff consisting of receptionists, peons etc. A committee, made up of hostelites, is also selected to help in handling hostel matters.
Mess facilities are provided for hostelites in the premises of the college canteen.
During the summer vacations the hostel rooms are available for summer trainees of Management Institutes.