Utkal University is the oldest university in Orissa and the 17th oldest university in India located at the heart of the capital city Bhubaneswar. It is an educating cum-affiliating college that has created a percentage of the best brains in Orissa. There are at present 26 post-graduate offices at the college grounds for studies and research in different sections of Science, Humanities, Business Administration, Social Science, Law, and Commerce. There are almost 3,000 understudies in the post-graduate divisions at Vani Vihar. This is the biggest affiliating college in the nation with 267 associated general universities, 15 law schools, 6 therapeutic and pharmacy colleges. Amid the prevalence of Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati, who assumed a spearheading part in the foundation of the college, the proposal of this advisory group was made accessible.

In 1966 that Act was canceled and another Utkal University Act went live from January 1, 1967. At first Utkal University was working for the Ravenshaw College, before it went to its own grounds in Bhubaneswar, called Vani Vihar. The University has numerous divisions from Anthropology to Zoology, for post-graduate educating. It has the biggest scholastic grounds in Bhubaneswar. It has one of the most elevated number of instructive divisions in India and is the state's biggest in this admiration.