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Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela has been established by an Act of the Assembly, Government of Orissa in June 2002. All Engineering, Pharmacy, Architecture, HMCT, and most of the colleges offering MCA and MBA degree programmes are either constituent or affiliated colleges of this University.

All the students to be admitted (except those to be admitted to Medical and BDS colleges, Pharmacy and MCA Courses in other Universities of the State) through JEE 2005 will be registered students of the University. The University will ensure the quality and standard of technical education in the State. It adopts a non - negotiable academic calender to ensure timely completion of the examinations and degree requirements.

VISION OF THE UNIVERSITY
Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela is dedicated to building and nurturing a technical education system that shall produce technically skilled and professionally competent knowledge workers and entrepreneurs capable of meeting the challenges of global competition and that shall focus on basic and applied research in frontier areas of science, technology and management with special emphasis on societal needs of the State.

MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY

• Bringing all the existing / new technical institutions / colleges in the State under one umbrella.
• Effective, efficient and transparent system of examination, evaluation and publication of results.
• Providing all the Institutions with a state - of - the art Curricula and Syllabi.
• Preparing Course Material Packages for all the Programmes.
• Providing quality input to students through combination lecture, print and electronic media.
• Promoting entrepreneurship amongst the students of the University and its constituent / affiliated colleges.
• Training of all Teachers.
• Career Development of Faculty through Post Graduate and Ph.D. Programmes.
• Developing at least two Centres of Excellence in Research in next 5 years.
• Lean and Transparent System for administration.
• Making the University self sufficient.
• Promoting Industry - Institute partnership.

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY

• Unifying the curriculum and the syllabi for all the courses and replacing the current ones (six in number) by state-of-the art curricula and syllabi for all Degree programmes.
• Organizing the examination, evaluation in a way that will ensure timely completion of the degree requirements.
• Improving the quality and content of instruction to give value for the money to the ultimate beneficiaries (i.e., students).
• Preparation and dissemination of instruction material through electronics media to improve the quality and standard of teaching.
• Starting a Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park.
• Monitoring the quality and standard of teaching and evaluation in constituent and affiliated colleges.
• Initiating the teachers training and quality improvement programmes.
• Starting of M.Tech. and Ph.D. Programmes with focus on teachers of constituent and affiliated Colleges.
• Creating Research Centres on few specific areas such as : Biotechnology, Disaster Mitigation Engineering and Management and Natural Resource Management.
• Promote Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy.
• Creation of a state – of – the art University Management System leveraging on technology for smooth and transparent administration.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE UNIVERSITY

• Non - negotiable Academic Calendar.
• Variable Pace academic programme to match with the individual student’s capability.
• Faculty training and development.
• Wholesome education.
• Continuous evaluation.