INTRODUCTION

The Department of Higher Education of the State Looks after education at University, Post-Graduate, Graduate and Higher Secondary level. It also provides Vocational Education in order to prepare the Youth for self-employment. The Department also promotes professional courses in Government and Private Sector. The Department further provides grant to a number of specialized and research institutes like Naba Krushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies and Institute of Physics.

 The Department is looking after effective functioning of six Universities namely:

 1)     Utkal University

2)     Berhampur University

3)     Sambalpur University

4)     Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya

5)     North Orissa University

6)     Fakir Mohan University

 General information regarding different Universities, Colleges is mentioned below.

Total No. of Universities – 7                    

Name of the University               Teaching                                Non-Teaching

i) Utkal University                         340                                           730

ii) Berhampur University                 186                                           350

iii) Sambalpur University                177                                           336

iv) Sri Jagannath Sanskrit

     Viswavidyalaya,Puri                 41                                               45

v) North Orissa University              30                                               13

vi) Fakir Mohan University              30                                                13

vii) O.U.A.T.                                119                                                -

                                      Total    923                                                  1487

 Total No. of Government Colleges – 92

i)                    Degree College – 44

ii)                           Jr. College – 48

Total No. of Autonomous College – 15

Total No. of Lead Colleges – 25

Institute of Management and

Information Technology, Cuttack - 01         Teaching - 21          Non-Teaching - 16 = 37

Total No. of Aided Colleges – 448

                   (+2) Colleges – 194

            Plan –           4062                                3653   = 7715

      Non-Plan –           2524                                2164   = 4688

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                                 6586                                5817   = 12403

          Block Grant -       715                                          275    =   990