Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College,Bhubaneswar,Orissa
The college is located over an area of 28.13 acres (113,800 m2) of land, near Kalpana Square, Bhubaneswar, on the Highway connecting Cuttack and Puri in the southern part of the city. It is situated within a distance of 3 km from the Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar and 2 km from the railway station.It has three spacious buildings with adequate number of classrooms, laboratories, library, a general hostel to accommodate 125 students and a hostel named Dr Ambedakar Hostel having accommodation for 165 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students. it also has a newly built hostel named junior hostel for students studying in junior college.
The twenty two departments of the undergraduate college offers Three Year Bachelor's Degree courses in Humanities, Science and Commerce streams. The college offers 15 subjects in B.A. Honours that includes subjects such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Mathematics and Statistics, English, Oriya, Hindi, and Sanskrit. There are 08 subjects in B.Sc Honours including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Botany, Zoology, Statistics and Anthropology. In B.Com Honours, 02 subjects options are available, namely, Accountancy and Marketing Management. The college also conducts four professional courses including P.G. Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA), P.G. Diploma in Customer Contact Service Management (PGDCCSM), Certificate Course in Computer Concept (CCCC) and Certificate Course in Computer Based Business Accounting (CCCBBA). Recently some courses at the post-graduation level, such as Masters in Social Work (MSW) have been intitiated.
The college has 86 teaching staff, 108 non-teaching staff. The total student strength of the college in the various undergraduate courses stands at 2308. A total of 79 students are enrolled in the various PG Diploma courses of the college. The Teacher-Student ratio is 1:27.
The college has hostel facilities, a library with a holding of more than 60,000 volumes, and subscribes to around 600 periodicals (as of 2005). The college also has a small, but well stocked botanical garden, and a small sports complex. It attracts students from almost all the districts of the state as well as from the neighbouring states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and West Bengal. The Junior College has consistently produced students who have secured ranks in the top-20 list in the annual Higher Secondary Examinations of the state every year.
