Utkal University of Culture

Utkal University of Culture is a state university in Bhubaneswar for the arts, culture and heritage of Odisha. It came into existence through an ordinance promulgated on 9 June 1999, later replaced by the Utkal University of Culture Act, 1999, and was set up as a teaching-cum-affiliating university. The UGC's list of State Universities (as on 16 November 2022) shows it with the establishment year 1999. The present campus at Sanskruti Vihar, Madanpur, covers 45.185 acres near Info-city Phase-II, about 17 km from Bhubaneswar railway station, and has a boys' and a girls' hostel. The university is separate from Utkal University, the older general university in the same city.

Teaching departments sit in the School of Culture Studies, the School of Architecture and Archaeology, the School of Language and Literature (Odia and Linguistics), the School of Visual Arts and the School of Performing Art. Its own postgraduate programmes are two-year M.A. degrees in culture studies, history and archaeology, Odia language and literature and linguistics, M.V.A. degrees in five visual-arts subjects, and M.P.A. degrees in nine performing-arts subjects, with seats of 16 to 32 per programme, alongside M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes. Undergraduate programmes (BPA, BVA, BHM and BTTM) run at affiliated colleges, and the official list of affiliated colleges has 83 entries. PG selection is by career marking.