Ravenshaw University: Admission 2025, Courses, Fees, Ranking & Cuttack Campus Life

Studying at Ravenshaw University has been an enriching and unforgettable experience. Located in the heart of Cuttack, this historic institution, with its majestic red-brick colonial architecture, exudes a sense of heritage and academic excellence. The lush green campus, well-equipped libraries, and modern classrooms create the perfect environment for learning and personal growth. The university offers a diverse range of courses, supported by experienced faculty who are always approachable and encouraging. Beyond academics, Ravenshaw has a vibrant campus life with numerous clubs, cultural events, and sports activities that foster overall development. The iconic Kanika Library and the serene campus gardens provide peaceful spaces for study and reflection. The university’s rich legacy and dynamic student community make it an inspiring place to be. Afterall pretty nice experience going on . Still a lot of things need to be improved.....

Best university in odishaI have completed my master degree here in political science

I don't know more about this university but when i came here i felt that the campus of this place was very beautiful... this university is the oldest university of odisha... the architecture is eye-catching, chill pepper & bold red colour themes gives a premium feel also bold design & green garden of this university seemed to me, in the evening this university campus looks even more beautiful..

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 university has nine schools, thirty three academic departments and a student enrolment of nearly 8,000. It is one of the oldest educational institutes in the country and its history is synonymous with the history of modern Odisha.Ravenshaw is the oldest institution of higher education in the state of Odisha and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in India. It was founded in 1868 with intermediate level (F. A.) classes at the Cuttack Zilla (district) School (now Ravenshaw Collegiate School). The high school, which was also known as the Cuttack High School, was elevated to a first grade college in 1876. It became widely  known as Cuttack College until it was rechristened Ravenshaw College as a tribute to T. E. Ravenshaw, who was the Commissioner of Cuttack Division and had played a key role in its creation. The office of Ravenshaw College and Ravenshaw Collegiate School was separated in 1904.The site in which Ravenshaw is presently located was selected as a site for the College by the Nathan Committe in 1913. Ravenshaw College Map first draft reproduced from Nivedita M.’s Ravenshaw College: Orissa’s Temple of Learning, 1868-2006; Building plan Back then, the site was populary called Chakra Padia which was a race course at the time. According to popular lore, it was a lonely and unsafe place. However, newspaper reports of the time provide accounts of how Chakra Padia was the preferred site of the English officers in Cuttack for festivities and sports. Besides horse racing and cricket matches which were the usual sporting events, it was the women’s cycle race which drew great attention.If a strategic shift in favour of the spread of ‘modern’ education and ‘development’ by building an institution of higher education like Ravenshaw in the wake of a catastrophic famine of 1866 characterized the focus of colonial policy interventionism in nineteenth century Odisha, the ‘expressivist’ signs of the institution were marked by a subversive spirit of anti-colonialism suffused with a radical libertarian ideological position in the first half of the twentieth century Student volunteers for Utkal Union Conference. Stretching beyond its institutional logic and framework of knowledge production, Ravenshaw remained a distinct critical site of negotiating modernity from multiple perspectives by an emerging yet assertive intelligentsia in the early decades of the twentieth century Orissa Education Fund; Oriya People’s Association; Sonepur State Peace Medals Fund; Domicile Orissa; Medallions Great War Commemoration; Second War loan; Song of British Victory. The class passionately engaged with larger and diverse issues of region, language, identity and community, nation, and the emerging global order.Amid its intimate engagements and negotiations with the colonial order University Company; Provincial Publicity Department, Ravenshaw College underwent several phases of expansion and transformation with regard to infrastructure and facilities and teaching and research Ravenshaw in 1917; Board of Studies-1919; Syndicate; Governing body.