IIT Kanpur’s hostel rooms are designed to provide a comfortable living to students. It has many hostels with different accommodation styles including single, double and triple-person rooms. First-year students are required to share rooms while senior students can get individual rooms.
IIT Kanpur has 13 hostel halls providing amenities like a TV room, reading room, canteen, mess and sports facilities. Students also have the facility of 22 hours of food on campus ranging from popular food chains to hostel canteens.
The rooms are equipped with essential furniture, internet connectivity and common services like laundry and security. The hostel seat rent at IIT Kanpur is INR 1250 with INR 14,110 and INR 25 charged for mess and water facilities respectively. This makes the total hostel charge at IIT Kanpur to be around INR 15, 385.