Department of Higher Education, Odisha (Odia: ଉଚ୍ଚ ଶିକ୍ଷା ବିଭାଗ, ଓଡ଼ିଶା) is a unit of the

Government of Odisha The Government of Odisha and its Districts of Odisha, 30 districts consists of an executive branch, executive, led by the List of Governors of Odisha, Governor of Odisha, a judiciary, and a legislative branch. Like other states in India, the ...

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that looks after the higher education in the state of

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

. The department looks after the education curriculum at University, Post-Graduate and Graduate level in the state of Odisha. The department is responsible for hiring and employing teaching staffs in positions of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor as well as non-teaching staff in Higher Education Institutions running under

. Moreover, it looks after functioning of state run Universities namely Maa Manikeshwari University, Rajendra University,

Ravenshaw University Ravenshaw University, formerly known as Ravenshaw College, is a co-educational state university situated in Cuttack, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Ravenshaw College in 1868, the institution became a university in 2006. The u ...

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Sambalpur University Sambalpur University is a public research university located in Burla, India, Burla town, of district Sambalpur, India, in the States and territories of India, state of Odisha. Popularly known as Jyoti Vihar, it offers courses at the undergradu ...

, Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya,

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, NLUO, Dharanidhar University,

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and

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Facility

In the year 2010 Department of Higher Education, Odisha introduced ''Students Academic Management System'' also known as ''(SAMS)''. This facility is based on e-admission of students seeking admission to ITI/Diploma engineering and non-engineering courses, +2 and +3 courses in various private and government schools, colleges, polytechnics and university in the state of Odisha under Department of Higher Education and skill development in the streams of Arts, Law, Commerce, Science, Craftsmen, ITI training, Diploma and other self finance courses. DHE Odisha website also enables facility of RTI, e-space, e-dispatch and pool of information resources about staff position and Infrastructure support of various Schools, Colleges and University. E- Dispatch and E- Space are web based facility for receiving Letters, Office Orders, Amendments, and other resources of information of different departments of Government of Odisha.

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Government agencies established in 2010 Education in Odisha State agencies of Odisha Universities and colleges in Odisha Government of Odisha 2010 establishments in Orissa {{India-gov-stub

Facility

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