According to today's headline data, schools need to maintain and manage dormitories, such as cleaning and providing related facilities and services, such as heating, air conditioning and parking spaces. These all require a certain cost, so students need to be charged a certain accommodation fee to maintain their operations. Charging accommodation fees is also helpful to cultivate students' self-care ability and life consciousness, so that students can better adapt to society and real life and improve their comprehensive quality.

The postgraduate dormitory of Shanghai Normal University is not free, because the school needs to maintain and manage the cost of the dormitory, and the dormitory resources are limited, which needs fair distribution, and it is also helpful to cultivate students' self-care ability and life consciousness. Schools usually provide affordable accommodation, scholarships and grants for students with financial difficulties to alleviate economic pressure.