Abhishek Mohanty's Review on Utkal University, [UU] Bhubaneshwar

Utkal University has a dedicated Placement Cell in operation to facilitate recruitment and career development for the students studying in different post graduate departments and self-financing programmes. The Placement Cell continuously strives to help students in pursuing their career goals by acquiring employment-seeking skills and ultimately to attain desired employment.

The members of the Placement Cell comprises of the Chairman, P.G. Council, Placement Officer, Heads of Departments and course-coordinators of the sponsored courses. The Chairman, P.G. Council directly monitors and guides the functioning of the Placement Cell.

The Placement Cell, constituted in 2005 by the decision of the Syndicate, establishes and maintains linkage with industrial establishments, corporate houses, Banks, NGOs, PSUs etc for meaningful employment for post-graduate students from all disciplines.

The Placement Cell has the following major objectives

The broad activities of the Placement Cell include

Leading organizations of international and national repute have partnered with Utkal University for recruitment through campus placement. 

Apart from organizing campus recruitment drives for the post graduate students studying at Utkal University, the Placement Cell undertakes various career development activities including Career Orientation and Skill Development programs, Employability Assessment and Training, career counseling, etc.

The Placement Cell conducted employability assessment through national level skills assessment organizations such as NASSCOM, CoCubes, Aspiring Minds and Mettle and arranged career counseling sessions for the students studying at Utkal University during academic year 2010-11 to 2014-15.

The Placement Cell facilitated National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) STAR training at Utkal University from 14.03.2014 to 13.04.2014.

Leading organizations of international and national repute have partnered with Utkal University for fresher’s recruitment through campus placement. These include

The University, though not a completely residential one, provides residential facilities to the students in the hostels. All the hostels are supervised by the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent and coordinated by THE WARDEN. There is a Board of Residence to determine the matters relating to general policy and administration of the Hostels from time to time. The Board of Residence consists of the Warden, Chairperson, P.G. Council, all the Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents.

At present there are eleven hostels inside the campus., six for gents and four for ladies as detailed below. Every hostel has a common room where boarders are provided with news papers, periodicals and television etc. Common mess facility exists in all hostels. A list of all the hostels, their accommodation capacity and the names of the Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents of respective hostels are provided below : 

• Utkal university provides great learning experience to students since 1943. Since I study Integrated MBA in utkal university, i want to share my experience here. The daily routine consists of 4 classes of 1 hr each and a break of 30 mins. The classes generally start from 8 am to 12:30 pm. As the integrated MBA is a 5 yrs programme, so it consists of 10 semesters of 6 months duration each. the classes are conducted by experienced faculties and some guest faculties from reputed colleges of India like XIMB.
• The method of teaching is by projector focussing so that it becomes easier for students to understand the subject easily. There are various assignments and projects given to students from time to time to judge the understanding level of students. the placement cell of IMBA is quite good. Various reputed companies and banks like ICICI,TCS,WIPRO and CAPGEMINI visit the university to recruit the students.
• My experience in IMBA programme at Utkal university is quite good.

• Course fees of IMBA programme-

1st yr-Rs.30000/-per annum

2nd yr-Rs.30000/-per annum

3rd yr-Rs.30000/-per annum

4th yr-Rs.40000/-per annum

5th yr-Rs.40000/-per annum

TOTAL FEES-Rs.170000/-per annum

• The college doesnot have any scholarship options for IMBA programme.However,there are various govt. scholarships like Medhabruti and Prerana which the merituos students can avail easily.
• Approx,80-85% students get govt. scholarships every year.
• Students can also avail study loans from various banks. However the university doesnot help the students to get loans as the course fee is quite low as compared to other colleges.