Since it was located on the south side of Daigaku-ryo (the government facility to educate students who would later become bureaucrats) (the old address was go-cho, ichi-bo, Sakyo (west area of capital Kyoto)), it was also called Daigaku Nanso (facilities of Daigaku-ryo in the south).
大学寮の南側（左京3条1坊5町）の地にあったため、大学南曹（だいがくなんそう）とも呼ばれていた。