Six faculty clusters
The University's academic structure is organised around six clusters that group related disciplines and provide a single point of academic governance for each. Under the Odisha University (Amendment) Act 2024, these clusters are being formalised as Schools of Study with their own Boards.
Anchored by the Department of History, the oldest postgraduate department on the campus (since 1979), and the Department of Odia, which carries the University's mother-tongue research and translation work. The School also houses English, offering coursework in Indian writing in English and language pedagogy for secondary education.
Field research focus on the governance of scheduled areas under the Fifth Schedule and the long-running KBK development question. Strong methodological grounding in quantitative and qualitative research suitable for placements in the development sector and for onward research.
Commerce has been a postgraduate offering since 1983; Business Administration programmes (BBA, MBA) bring students into industry exposure with NALCO, OMC, and MCL: the public-sector enterprises operating in the Koraput mineral belt.
Postgraduate Chemistry has been offered since 1993-94. The five constituent departments together pursue research in Eastern Ghats biodiversity, ethnobotany of Koraput tribal medicine, mineral chemistry of the bauxite-rich plateaus around Damanjodi, and applied mathematics for low-resource computing.
The Department of Computer Science is the principal anchor of the School. Active research lines include language technology for low-resource Indian languages (Odia, Desiya, Kui, Sora) and accessibility computing for students with disabilities.
B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes for the four-district school system. Curriculum aligned to the NCERT learning-outcome frameworks at elementary and secondary stages, and to NEP 2020 paragraphs 5.13 and 15 on the integrated B.Ed. and the four-year ITEP transition. Field placements in government schools across Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, and Rayagada.
The formal Schools-of-Study structure under the new University Act is at the stage of approval by the Academic Council. The cluster organisation set out on this page is the working model that the Office of the Vice-Chancellor has placed before the Council. The page will be updated when the resolution is recorded.
Last updated: 26 April 2026 · Reviewed by: Office of the Dean, Academic Affairs
