Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), which was officially established on 16 February 1984, is the sixth Malaysian public university. It is the only university that was set up to specialise solely in management education from the very beginning of its establishment. The planning of the construction of this sixth university began in August 1983 when the Ministry of Education Malaysia began to give form, in earnest, to the idea of setting up this university. On 19th October 1983, the Cabinet gave its official approval for this project in Kedah. At that time, the project was called “The Sixth University Project”. Several months later, the temporary office of the sixth university, officially named Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), was officially opened on 15th February 1984 in Jitra.

Four months after its official opening, the UUM office was relocated to its provisional campus – the Darul Aman Campus – in Jitra, in June 1984, when the first phase of the project had been completed. The relocation was carried out so as to be able to usher in the very first batch of students for the academic year which commenced in early June 1984. The Darul Aman Campus was on a 62-acre tract of land in Bandar Darulaman. It was 18 kms north of Alor Setar and 4.8 kms from Jitra. 

The permanent UUM campus, referred to as the Sintok Campus, commenced operations on 15 September 1990. The MYR580 million Sintok Campus was officially opened on 17 February 2004 by the Royal Chancellor, His Royal Highness Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah. The main buildings of the campus are the Sultanah Bahiyah Library, the Chancellery, the Sultan Badlishah Mosque, the Mu’adzam Shah Hall, the Tan Sri Othman Hall, the Sports Complex, the Varsity Mall, the Budi Siswa building, the Convention Complex, and the buildings that house the various departments of the Academic Colleges.

As a campus situated far from the madding crowd, UUM has ensured that its students do not want for adequate accommodation. At present, UUM has 15 Student Residential Halls (SRH), which, all together, house 20,000 students. The SRHs are named after Malaysian companies, institutions, and organisations of repute, namely MAS, TENAGA NASIONAL, TRADEWINDS, PETRONAS, EON, MISC, SIME DARBY, BSN, TM, PROTON, MAYBANK, YAYASAN ALBUKHARY, BANK MUAMALAT, BANK RAKYAT, and SME BANK.

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  YAB [YAYASAN AL-BUKHARY]

Student Residential Hall Albukhary Foundation (YAB DPP) is initially known as Aseania cluster to be able to accommodate 6,000 students at any one time and consists of Block AP1, AP2, AP3, and AP4.
Completion of the first building of AP4 and AP3 known as College Aseania 1 was completed on 16 October 2000. Initial placement of students began in November session 2000/2001 with a total of 1,500 students. Session began in May 2001, the college administration has been divided into two Asenia I (AP1 and AP2 blocks) and College Aseania II (AP3 and AP4 blocks). College Aseania I first intake comprises of 1,214 male students who have transferred from block to block AP1 AP4 followed by taking the girls on June 2001 AP2 placed on the block, bringing the total occupant of 2682 in the college at the time.
On 21 November 2002, the College Aseania I consisting of AP1 and AP2 Block has changed the name to Albukhary Foundation Residential College. Launching college name, Albukhary Residential College Foundation was made on 15 August 2003. It has been graced by Honorable Dato 'Seri Dr. Abdul Shukor bin Abdullah Albukhary Foundation Education Advisory. Moto YAB DPP "Established Excellence Through Effort and Commitment" made by each of our charms YAB DPP. Its main aim is to ensure excellence is achieved through the YAB DPP comprehensive effort YAB DPP citizens.

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 TNB [TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD]

 Construction of the permanent campus in Sintok was started on January 8, 1989. Sintok campus began operations on 15 September 1990, and full migration to Campus Sintok was achieved on 1 January 1991. Campus valuable Sintok RM580 million was completed on 1993.Commencing January 2008, UUM made history make massive changes in terms of restructuring. A total of 13 faculties merged into three academic colleges. Academic dinghy consists of College of Business (College of Business-COB), College of Arts and Sciences (College of Arts and Sciences-CAS) and the College of Law, Government and International Studies (College of Law, Government and International Studies-COLGIS).
DPP is named according to the companies, institutions and organizations, well-known in Malaysia that also contributed to the development of this university. TNB DPP College was originally named after the nomination of the National Energy corporate entities Tenaga Nasional Berhad of Malaysia has rebranded this college by injecting investment for the benefit of students of this college.Since the establishment in 1991, TNB College was placed under the administration of the Department of Student Affairs unit under the Housing Division and Placement (U3P). U3P Unit is responsible for managing residential hostels and hostel facilities.Beginning in 2008, all residential colleges UUM was placed under academic colleges COB, CAS and COLGIS. TNB Collage is under COB and renamed the Student Residential Hall TNB. In 2010, the restructuring of residential hostels have witnessed TNB DPP returned to the Student Affairs Department and placed under Student Accommodation Centre (SAC) that manages the DPP administration.DPP TNB has 500 student rooms with a capacity of 1000 thousand students and has 5 blocks students.

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 TM [TELEKOM MALAYSIA]

Dewan Penginapan Pelajar TM sebagaimana DPP lain ditubuhkan bagi menyediakan penginapan dan prasarana yang kondusif kepada pelajar yang menuntut di Universiti Utara Malaysia. DPP ini adalah DPP yang ketujuh di bawah Pusat Penginapan Pelajar, Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Mengorak langkah ke arah membina sebuah DPP yang mampu melahirkan mahasiswa-mahasiswa yang berjaya di dalam akademik serta pembangunan sahsiah diri yang terpuji sebagai suatu realiti. Pada awal penubuhannya, DPP TM dikenali sebagai Kolej TELEKOM yang merupakan kolej yang ke-7 dibina mengikut kronologi pembinaan kolej-kolej di Universiti Utara Malaysia dan mula dikenali sebagai kolej ke-7. Namun, tidak lama kemudian kolej ini turut dinamakan menggunakan nama korporat TELEKOM dan dikenali sebagai Kolej Telekom. Kolej ini terdiri daripada 3 Blok A, B dan C. Ia mempunyai 84 bilik untuk setiap blok dengan 252 buah bilik kesemuanya.

Kolej TELEKOM pada awalnya tidak menggunakan nama korporat TELEKOM sebagai pengenalannya. Ia dikenali sebagai B4 dan B5. Pada awalnya juga, ia dihuni oleh pelajar ijazah pertama dari tahun 1990 hingga 1992. Kemudian apabila Kolej EON telah siap pembinaannya, pelajar-pelajar program ijazah pertama ini dipindahkan ke sana dan Kolej TELEKOM digantikan dengan pelajar Matrikulasi Universiti Utara Malaysia hingga sekarang.

Bagaimanapun, bermula sesi 2000/2001, Kolej Telekom telah dihuni oleh pelajar ijazah pertama semula. Manakala pelajar Matrikulasi ditempatkan di Pusat Matrikulasi Arau, Perlis. Justeru itu, Kolej Telekom akan diletakkan di bawah pentadbiran Universiti Utara Malaysia sepenuhnya semula.

Bermula pada sesi 2000/2001, Kolej TELEKOM memulakan sesi penginapan di bawah Universiti Utara Malaysia dengan menyediakan 3 blok penginapan pelajar perempuan. Manakala, pada tahun 2004, Kolej MISC telah menyerahkan 3 blok penginapan pelajar lelaki kepada Kolej TELEKOM. Ini menjadikan Kolej TELEKOM memiliki 3 blok penginapan pelajar Lelaki dan 3 blok penginapan pelajar Perempuan.

Nama DPP TM diambil sempena nama sebuah badan korporat iaitu TELEKOM MALAYSIA BERHAD. DPP TM mempunyai 6 blok yang mampu menampung 1008 penghuni dan ditadbir oleh barisan pentadbiran yang dipertanggungjawabkan dalam menjaga kebajikan serta keselesaan penghuni. Pihak pentadbiran DPP turut dibantu oleh barisan Jawatankuasa Perwakilan Pelajar yang ditukar struktur organisasinya setiap tahun kalendar akademik.

DPP TM mempunyai enam blok kediaman pelajar dimana 3 blog didiami pelajar perempuan dan tiga blok didiami pelajar lelaki. Setiap blok boleh menampung seramai 84 orang pelajar. Secara keseluruhannya, DPP TM mampu menempatkan seramai 504 orang pelajar pada satu-satu masa. Selain daripada menjadi pusat penginapan pelajar sepenuh masa, DPP TM juga sering menerima penginapan daripada pihak luar seperti pelajar sekolah yang menjalani latihan sukan di Pusat Sukan dan juga orang awam yang menjalani pengajian jarak jauh di UUM. Blok kediaman pelajar terdiri daripada:

• Blok A

• Blok B

• Blok C

• Blok D

• Blok E

• Blok F

Antara kemudahan yang terdapat di DPP TM ialah makmal computer, bilik rehat, bilik gerakan/aktiviti, dewan serbaguna, kemudahan sukan dan Riadah, surau, bilik solat, bilik TV, cafeteria, kedai fotostat dan kedai barangan runcit.

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   TRADEWINDS

Tradewinds Student Residential Hall or better known as DPP Tradewinds is the third from fifteen other DPP in this university and takes the name from Tradewinds Bhd. a business entity that involved in various business such as palm oil plantation, sugar and paddy processing. The student hall can accommodate up to 1,000 students at a time within its four accommodation blocks where one block is for the male students and the others is for the female students. At one particular time, the residential hall was once known as Kolej Pernas and later changed its name to Dewan Penginapan Pelajar (DPP) Tradewinds on 11 September 2007.

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   SME BANK

DPP SME Bank has a design hostel with natural and created an open courtyard. It includes 8 blocks hostel, one dining hall and one restaurant concept and hostel office. This hostel blocks consisting of 6 blocks of 4 floors with a total for each block of rooms is 126 rooms and 2 blocks of 5 floors with 176 rooms. Each hostel block is placed in home fellowship and this college also has one semi-D unit area for principal home.
Official handover of the building was completed on May 4, 2003 and it became operational on 15 May 2003. The first intake of students is on June 1, 2003. SME Bank DPP administration was led by a Principal who is assisted by the 8 Assistant Principal and 9 administrative staff consisting of a Senior Assistant Hostel Manager, the Assistant Manager of Hostels, two Administrative Assistants (Clerical / Operation), two supervisors and three the Public Employees.
The SME BANK DPP from time to time have tried to create a conducive infrastructure to residents by providing facilities such as photocopy shop, convenience store, gift shop and a computer shop in the center of student activity.
Other facilities in the confines of the DPP is Kachi Mall facilities that include a mini-market and food stalls, a mosque, a large hall and recreation facilities such as soccer fields, volleyball courts, netball, sepak takraw, badmiton and others.
SME Bank DPP position some distance from the campus does not prevent students to enjoy sports. A sports store was built near the mosque to accommodate sports equipment where students can make borrowing a variety of equipment such as bicycles and sports equipment.

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  SIME DARBY

DPP Sime Darby is the sixth student accommodation hall at Universiti Utara Malaysia. First used in 1992. DPP Sime Darby was formerly known as Guthrie College. Commencing August 30, 2008 it has officially changed to Sime Darby Student Residential Hall and officiated by His Royal Highness Dato 'Tunku Putra Badlishah son of Dato' Seri Tunku Annuar, Executive Vice President of Sime Darby Berhad. Since the establishment of DPP Sime Darby, it was placed under the administration of the Student Affairs Department, under Housing and Student Placement Division which is a special unit to deal specifically DPP administration student accommodation. 
However, beginning in 2008 until mid 2010 the administration of DPP Sime Darby was placed under the administration College of Business (COB). Starting mid 2010 DPP Sime Darby again placed under the administration of the Student Affairs Department where a special unit of Student Accommodation Centre (SAC) is a special unit to manage the administration of the DPP.
There are eight blocks of student accommodation hostel. Two blocks for men and remaining six for women. Each block can accommodate 132 students. On the whole amount can be set up to 1056 people. Other than for university students, student hostels are also used for external accommodation during semester breaks such as sports Sukma Games, Statutory Bodies and others. 

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