History
The oldest postgraduate department on the campus. Research foci: regional history of the Eastern Ghats; the Jeypore Estate under the Bhanj-Deo dynasty; tribal historiography of the KBK region.
Programmes: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Fifteen postgraduate departments on the main campus
Departments
English
Indian writing in English; postcolonial literatures; teacher-of-English pedagogy aligned to NEP 2020 multilingual paragraphs (4.11 to 4.13).
Programmes: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Odia
The University's mother-tongue research department. Active in translation studies, oral history of the four districts, and the documentation of Desiya as a contact-language between Odia and Telugu.
Programmes: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Economics
Development economics with field focus on the KBK region. Quantitative methods training for state-government policy roles.
Programmes: M.A., Ph.D.
Political Science
Indian government and politics; Fifth-Schedule governance; local self-government in scheduled areas under PESA, 1996.
Programmes: M.A., Ph.D.
Sociology
Tribal sociology of southern Odisha; sociology of education; gender in Eastern Ghats society.
Programmes: M.A., Ph.D.
Commerce
Accounting, taxation, and finance with industry placements in the public-sector mineral and aluminium enterprises of the Koraput belt.
Programmes: M.Com., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Business Administration
BBA and MBA programmes with internship pathways into NALCO, Odisha Mining Corporation, and Mahanadi Coalfields.
Programmes: BBA, MBA.
Chemistry
Inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Mineral and bauxite chemistry of the Koraput plateaus; ethnomedicinal compound studies in collaboration with the Department of Botany.
Programmes: M.Sc., Ph.D.
Physics
Condensed-matter physics and computational physics; modest but active research with low-cost laboratory infrastructure.
Programmes: M.Sc., Ph.D.
Mathematics
Applied mathematics with placements in school-mathematics teaching across the four districts.
Programmes: M.Sc., Ph.D.
Botany
Eastern Ghats floristics; ethnobotany of Koraput tribal medicine; biodiversity research aligned to the Niyamgiri and Kolab catchments.
Programmes: M.Sc., Ph.D.
Zoology
Wildlife ecology of the Eastern Ghats; aquatic biology in the Sabari and Kolab river systems.
Programmes: M.Sc., Ph.D.
Computer Science
Language technology for low-resource Indian languages, accessibility computing, applied machine learning. The department is the academic anchor of the University's digital-transformation programme.
Programmes: M.Sc., MCA, Ph.D.
Education
B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes for the four-district school system; close pedagogical alignment with the NCERT learning-outcomes framework that the Vice-Chancellor brings from his prior tenure as Director, NCERT.
Programmes: B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D. (Education).
Faculty rolls for each department, with photographs, publications, and ORCID identifiers, will be published from this page during the academic restructuring under the new University Act.
Last updated: 26 April 2026 · Reviewed by: Office of the Dean, Academic Affairs