The city was Cuttack was acting as the capital of Orissa state before Bhubaneswar. Nowadays, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack cities are jointly called as twin cities of the state of Orissa. The city has a number of high level colleges offering education in the faculties of humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, engineering, etc…

Some of the arts & science colleges in the city teach both intermediate and bachelor level courses. Even though, the number of government colleges is lesser in the city, a number of private colleges are functioning. The list of government colleges functioning in the city of Cuttack is given below:

Medical College:

• SCB Medical College

Physiotherapy College:

• National Institute of Rehabilitation, Training & Research

Engineering College:

• National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Arts & Science College:

• Jatiya Kabi Birakishore Government College

• Shailabala Women’s (Junior) College, Cuttack

• Ravenshaw (Junior) College, Cuttack

• Salepur (Junior) College, Salepur

• Banki (Junior) College, Banki

• Gopabandhu Science (Junior) College, Athagarh

• Narasinghpur (Junior) College, Narasinghpur

• Mohan Subudhi (Junior) College, Baramba

Medical College:

SCB Medical College is the only government run medical college in the city of Cuttack and the college is offering the following courses:

• MBBS

• BDS

• MD in different branches of medicine

• MS in different branches of medicine

• Doctor of Medicine

• M. Ch.

• Ph. D in different branches of medicine

This government medical college is affiliated to Utkal University and it admits students based on the norms issues by this university and the government of Orissa.

Physiotherapy College:

National Institute of Rehabilitation, Training & Research is run under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of Government of India. This institution offers under graduation degree course in prosthetics & orthotics, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and PG courses in physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The institution is also offering several short-term courses for rehabilitation professionals and for people with disabilities under the affiliation from Utkal University.

Engineering College:

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela is also called as Regional Engineering College and this institution is funded by the Government of India. This institution is offering Bachelor of technology, Master of Technology and Master of Science courses. The list of courses offered is given below:

• Bachelor of Technology in Biotech & Medical Engineering

• Master of Technology in

o Mining Engineering

o Metallurgical & Mineral Engineering

o Mechanical Engineering

o Electronics & Communication Engineering

o Electrical Engineering

o Computer Science & engineering

o Civil Engineering

o Chemical Engineering

o Ceramic Engineering

o Biotechnology & medical engineering

• Master of Science in

o Applied mathematics

o Chemistry

o Physics

Arts & Science College:

The number of government-run arts & science colleges in the city of Cuttack is higher in number as compared to colleges under any other faculties of education. These colleges offer courses in arts and science stream in subjects like geography, English, applied geology, education, economics, botany, anthropology, life sciences, mathematics, Oriya, physics, etc…

Therefore, Government colleges functioning in the city of Cuttack contributes towards the educational development of the state of Orissa in different branches of education.