Orissa Engineering College, Jatni: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Orissa Engineering College (OEC) was started in 1986 which is an engineering college situated at Jatni, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Located over a vast area of 58 acres, OEC provides an innovative learning facility to the prospective engineers. It is associated with BU Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha and is accredited from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). AICTE of India endorses OEC par excellence in technical education standard. Being an institute, it has minimum strength of one thousand one hundred and twenty four students and has faculty strength of ninety nine which is beneficial for giving personal attention to every student.

Opulent Educational Centre being a part of Jalandhar Educational Group is also determined to provide its student’s quality education along with the so many facilities to acquire and exhibit different aspects of their personality. An information and knowledge resource centre of the college is a central library equipped with over 41,075 books, journals and periodicals and is built covering an area of 3120 sq ft. Students also get access to DELNET, which is a numerous library centre, having more then 200 affiliated libraries in different Indian and other foreign states. Both the boys’ and girls’ hostels are well fitted with adequate facilities such as Jagannath Boys Hostel which provide hostel space for 350 students. Health and wellness are a total focus through the Rajlaxmi Memorial Health Centre operatives along with air conditioning power & hydraulic gymnasiums with sophisticated equipment’s & apparatus. In this college, students have an opportunity to enjoy various extra-curricular activities such as; the college has a 3,000 seater round auditorium, different sports facilities etc.

Orissa Engineering College provides an appropriate selection of engineering degree courses of the final years of undergraduate levels to facilitate the key areas of technological development. The institute currently provides five B.Tech programmes: Computer Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. All these programmes each have a take-off capacity of 120 students hence 480 total capacities for all the courses offered. This list of programmes provides OEC with the flexibility used to uphold demanding standards of education in these niche fields to meet the dynamic nature of practice in the engineering profession.

This paper focuses on the admission process in Orissa Engineering College with a view to admitting capable and motivated students into the engineering field. OEC mainly takes admission through the joint entrance examination (JEE Main) – a national level engineering entrance test. This helps students who seek to join college to have a strong basic background in the basic subjects needed when studying engineering. Furthermore, the college also accepts the XE Engineering Mathematics examination as an entry requirement option for those who want to pursue engineering.