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Thanks to economic growth and rapid industrialization, technical education in Orissa is developing must faster than anywhere else in India. Especially during the last decade, the growth of educational facilities is exceptional. As per one statistics, the number of engineering graduates passing out from various engineering colleges in Orissa has doubled up in the last 10years. From around 30,000 engineering graduates in late 80s' to nearly 80,000 in last couple of years; engineering education here has grown like never before. Today, it's considered as a hub of engineering colleges.

Engineering colleges in Orissa offers courses in four levels. There are many polytechnic institutes who offer Industrial training courses. These training courses on various technical trades can be considered as the basic level of course offering. Diploma courses offered by many diploma colleges come at the next level. These diploma courses are of three years duration and of various domains of engineering. Four year degree programmes are the third level of technical education offering. At the completion of four years degree programs, students are conferred with B E / B.tech degrees. Post graduate programmes like M.E/M.Tech is the highest level of course offered by any distinctive engineering college in Orissa.

The eligibility criterion for studying in any engineering college in Orissa is 10+2 in the science stream with mathematics as one of the subject combinations. Aspiring candidates have to appear for joint entrance examination, which is conducted by OJEE (Orissa Joint entrance examination) committee every year. Based on their ranks in joint entrance examination, candidates are chosen to pursue the engineering course.

Although engineering colleges are mushrooming in Orissa, the standard of education is not compromised. Most reputed institutions are AICTE approved and now National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has started the point system in many institutions.

Infrastructural facilities in engineering college in Orissa
' State-of-art academic campus
' Well equipped modern computer labs
' Wi-Fi enabled class rooms
' ISDN backup
' Libraries well-stocked with books, research papers, journals
' Audio-visual enriched conference rooms
' Video conferencing facility
' Satellite linkage for virtual class room facility

The above mentioned infrastructure facility definitely gives any engineering college in Orissa an edge over its competitors. In addition, the course is designed as per other Indian Universities standards. To give students a better insight on latest cutting-edge technologies, the engineering course curriculum has been made more interactive. Not only this, the course is changing periodically as per industrial needs. With so many facilities, Orissa engineering colleges are fast catching the global education standards.