College of Basic Science and Humanities, Bhubaneswar is a constituent college of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). Situated in capital city of Odisha, the college provides education in science stream to +2 science (Intermediate), graduate (B.Sc.), postgraduate (M.Sc.) as well as Ph.D. COLLEGE OLD GATE

Objective / Purpose of the public Authority

To offer +2 Science Courses at higher secondary level and supporting pre-requisite courses to the students of other constituent colleges of OUAT. Besides to offer three year full-time degree courses in Science courses. From the session 2014–15, Post Graduate and Ph.D. courses in different disciplines of Sciences were also introduced.

Departments and faculties

The college has the following Departments:

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

Botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

Microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

(BSc),

Biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

(IT),

Electronics Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other Electric charge, electrically charged particles. It is a subfield ...

, odia, and English. The college have many eminent faculties. Among the notable names, J. B. S. Haldane is at the top of the list. Eventually, many senior faculties trained from various national institutes have been taught in the college. For example, Prof. Netaji Upadhaya (PhD from BHU, Varanasi), Prof. Ashis Mohanty (MPhil from Delhi University) had given their best for the upliftment of the college. Currently, many senior faculties such as Prof. CSK Mishra (heading the college as Director) and Prof. Nandita Swain are immensely guiding the college. Many youngsters trained internationally, such as Dr. Biswaranjan Paital (Utkal, University, BHU, Varanasi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, UiTM, Selangor), Dr. Himansu Sahoo (PhD from IIT, post doc from USA), Dr Nigam Parida (PhD from Indian Institute of Science), Dr. Chhatrapti Parida (NIT, Rourkela) are actively maintaining the teaching learning environment via active teaching, research and extension. Dr. Biswaranjan Paital from Zoology Department has been continuously listed for the fourth time (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) among the top 2% scientists of the world as ranked and published by the Stanford University, USA and Elsevier, respectively, in 2024. Many other young faculties like Dr. Rojalin Patanaik, Dr Debashis Dash, Dr. Debiprasan Samantroy and Dr. Himansulal Nayak are the assets for the college. Altogether, the team contribution leads the college to be the 2nd most preferred college by the students in the state to peruse UG and PG.

Admission

*+2 science: admission over 384 seats through the E-admission by DHE *B Sc.: admission over 225 seats through the E-admission by Directorate of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha. *PG: By OUAT entrance examination. *Ph.D.: By OUAT entrance examination. The cut off for +2 science is 87%(approx) of 10th.And cut off for +3 science 80-70%(depends upon honours paper) of 12th/+2 science. PG admission depends upon the career marks (i.e. 10th,12th & +3 sc. percentage) and entrance marks. *Admission starts after the publication of respective results, i.e. 10th result of Bse/cbse/icse board & 12th result of chse/cbse/icse board result publication *+2 science: Examination is conducted by CHSE. *+3 science: conducted by OUAT *PG: conducted by OUAT. *Ph.D.: Conducted by OUAT following UGC pattern. *The 1st year exam of +2 is conducted in college level.for 2nd year +2 the final exam is conducted by CHSE.And two more exam of 2nd year i.e. test exam and pretest exam is conducted by college authority. The +2 exam is of total 600 marks practical paper are distributed in 70(theory)+30(practical).& language paper is of 100 mark. The combinations available in the college is PCMB, PCMIT, PCMS, PCME. *Similarly the +3 exam is conducted by university i.e. OUAT and internal exam is by college.

References

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