Design/Methodology/Approach: The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was used to estimate the value that the students attach to the accommodation facilities. Purpose: This study explores the students' Willingness to Pay (WTP) for improved accommodation facilities using the case of the College of Business Education (CBE) in Tanzania. The study emphasized building more hostels by the university stakeholders to accommodate the overcrowded students, limiting students allocated to and allowed to share hostel rooms to avoid overutilization of resources, ensuring there is adequate clean water supply to prevent the shortage of water, avoid the incidence of a disease outbreak by implementing biweekly hostel sanitation exercise, and improve the duration of electricity supply in the hostels to enhance good ventilation system. The result of the analysis revealed that the University of Calabar Female Hostel is overcrowded with a significant effect on the physical and health wellbeing of students. However, Chi-square correlation techniques were employed in testing the study hypotheses. Descriptively, tables, chart figures, percentages, average, and frequencies were used.
Data generated from the administration of the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. A 14 item structured questionnaire with a four-point Likert rating scale was adopted. A sample of 276 out of the 892 students living in the university was drawn for the study using the simple random sampling technique based on Taro Yamane's (1967) formula for the finite population.
This study was designed to investigate the effects of overcrowding on the female students living in the University of Calabar Hostel, Cross River State, Nigeria.
This comes with intense pressure on the bearing capacity of available school infrastructure. The demand for university education has led to an increase in the students' population especially in the Nigerian public universities.