摘要：Recently, there is a rapid growth in the number of students being admitted to various higher institutions across West African countries yearly. This has posed numerous accommodation problems to the stakeholders like school management and students. Some of the problems include the inability to manage student information accurately. This is as a result of the poor information management system that uses manual registers, cumbersome manual allocation system and so on which has resulted in the inability to give accurate information about the occupancy of rooms. This research study addresses problems encountered in the allocation of hostels (space) to students manually in universities. This work proposes and designs a system that is capable of managing a database which will automatically allocate space (Hall and Room) to students. The proposed system will automatically allocate Halls, rooms, and roommates by taking certain criteria into consideration and also keeps proper records of all the vacant lodges and its inhabitants. This automatic allocation method was developed using tools such as HTML, JScript, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. The system has been implemented and evaluated using a Nigeria private institution as a case study.
