Load blocks, rooms and quotas
Model each block and room type with its real capacity, plus any reserved or category quotas that must be honoured.
Hostels & housing
Hostel room allocation on preference and merit
Hostel allotment has all the same properties as course allotment: limited rooms, ranked preferences, eligibility categories, and a result that students will contest. Most hostel software manages the building. Allotix decides who gets in, fairly.
Most hostel software runs the building. None of it runs the allotment.
Room management systems handle attendance, fees and maintenance well — and then allot the rooms themselves on a first-come-first-served queue, which is the one part students actually complain about.
- Rooms handed out first-come-first-served, or by proximity to the warden
- Ranked block and room-type preferences collected, then ignored
- Reserved and category quotas tracked in a side spreadsheet
- Year-of-study and distance-based priority applied inconsistently
- No record to answer a parent asking why their child was refused
How it works
How Allotix runs hostel room allocation
Collect ranked housing preferences
Students rank blocks and room types they would accept, against a visible view of what capacity actually exists.
Allot on a stated priority order
Run the allotment on whatever priority your institution has agreed — year of study, distance from home, merit — and publish the result with the rule attached.
What you get
Built for this allocation, not adapted to it
- Block, room-type and per-room capacity
- Reserved and category quota handling
- Ranked housing preferences
- Configurable priority basis (year, distance, merit)
- Published allotment with the deciding rule on record
FAQ
Hostel room allocation — frequently asked questions
How is this different from hostel management software?
Hostel management systems are operational: attendance, fees, mess, maintenance, complaints. They are good at running a building that is already full. Allotix solves the step before that — deciding, fairly and defensibly, which students get which rooms in the first place. The two are complementary, and Allotix exports its allotment for whatever system you already run.
Related allocations
Section & lab batch allocation
Split a cohort into sections, lab groups or tutorial batches under real capacity limits.
Specialisation & branch allotment
Allot students to specialisations, streams or a branch change on merit and preference.
Open elective allocation
The classic: rank the electives, respect the seat matrix, publish a defensible result.