About Us
About Us
The overall management of the college is vested with the State Government. How ever, at the institutional level, the Principal is responsible for day-to-day administration and is assisted by a Vice-Principal. Besides, the three major aspects of the organization, namely the Academic, the Accounts and the Administrative affairs are supervised by three Senior Faculty members acting as Bursars.
B.J.B Autonomous College is one of the premier educational institutions of the State. It came into existence in 1957 through the initiative of the Government of Orissa. Named after Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar Bhramarabara Ray Mahapatra, the rebel extraordinary of pre-independent India, it is located over an area of 28.2 acres of land near Kalpana Square on the National Highway connecting Cuttack and Puri. It is situated at a distance of 3 k.ms from Biju Patnaik International Airport and 2 k.ms from Bhubaneswar railway station. It was an affiliated college of Utkal University till 1998. It has been functioning as an autonomous institution since 1999 following the conferment of autonomy by the UGC. Autonomy was renewed by UGC on 2016. The college was placed in Grade ‘A’ in 2004 after an assessment by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous body of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. The 2nd Cycle of NAAC accreditation was conferred on the college on 2016 with the college securing Grade ‘A’ with 3.19 CGPA which was from 02/12/2016 to 1/12/2021. Recently the college has initiated steps to achieve the 3rd cycle of NAAC accreditation. Institutional Information for Quality Assessment (IIQA) has been submitted successfully by the college on 11th January, 2022. The Self Study Report (SSR) has been prequalified for assessment on 19th August, 2022.
The Institution is an equal opportunity organization of higher learning and noted for dissemination of knowledge and skills in Science, Humanities and Commerce. The college is guided by the noble mission “Learning for Leadership”. It is engaged in preparing the talented youth as responsible and useful citizens by providing quality education through academic, cultural and physical activities.
Over the years the Institution has in terms of infrastructure, Student enrolment and subject options. Needless to say, in keeping with its fast expansion as a premier multi-faculty co-educational institution, it has earned the reputation of attracting the largest no. of emeritus students to its various programme of study from all over the state and outside.
Apart from regular courses for the degree of Bachelor in Arts, Science and Commerce, some selected Self-Financing Courses have been introduced with the approval of the Government such as Master in Social Work, B.Sc with Honours in Biotechnology and Computer Science.The new programmes instituted in the recent past are:
- Honours in Indian Music.
- 5- Years Integrated M. Sc in Bioinformatics
- 5-Years Integrated M.B.A
- 5-Years Integrated M.Sc in Electronics and Telecommunication
- 2- Years M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 2- Years Master in Financial Control
- 3 -Years Bachelor in Information Technology and Management
In the Year 2022-23, the following self-financing programmes have already been approved by the Department of Higher Education to function in the institution.
- 2-Years Master in Agri Business Management
- 2-Years MSc in Computer Science
- 5-Years Integrated M.C.A
- 5-Years Integrated Law
B.J.B Autonomous College is one of the first institutions in the state to introduce the Semester system in 2006-2007 following the guidelines of UGC. There is continuous evaluation through Mid Semester/Internal Assessment (20%) and Semester examination (80%) as well as Seminar Presentation, Project Work, Field Work, etc.
In the Year 2015, the CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) was introduced and the Model Syllabus applicable for all Odisha Degree Colleges of Odisha introduced in 2019-20. Apart from that One Time Graduation (OTG) was also introduced in the college in 2019-20. The college has also initiated National Academic Depository (NAD) on 2020-21 where marksheets and certificates of all Degree and Self-Financing students from 2012 admission batch will be available in the website.