Siksha 'O' Anusandhan

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA, Odia for "Education and Research") is a private deemed university in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, founded in 1996 as the Institute of Technical Education and Research and granted deemed status by the University Grants Commission in 2007.锡克沙·奥·阿努桑丹大学（Siksha 'O' Anusandhan，简称 SOA，奥里亚语意为“教育与研究”）是奥迪沙邦首府布巴内斯瓦尔的私立“被视为大学”，1996 年以技术教育与研究学院起家，2007 年获大学拨款委员会授予“被视为大学”地位。

Its ten constituent institutes and schools teach engineering, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, law, agriculture, veterinary science, business and hotel management on a 127-acre campus in the temple city, a portfolio that few Indian private universities can match.该校十个组成学院与学校在“寺庙之城”的 127 英亩校园里教授工程、医学、牙学、药学、护理、法学、农业、兽医、商学与酒店管理，这一学科组合在印度私立大学中少见。

QS placed it in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, Times Higher Education put it in 1001-1200, U.S. News ranked it 1,967th for 2026-27, and the 2026 ARWU main table does not include it.QS 把它列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，泰晤士高等教育列在 1001-1200，U.S. News 2026-2027 年度排第 1967 名，2026 年软科主榜则未收录。

History

• Bhubaneswar, the city that hosts the university, was the capital of ancient Kalinga and preserves the Khandagiri and Udayagiri caves, the Lingaraj temple of the eleventh century and the ruins of Sisupalgarh.大学所在的布巴内斯瓦尔曾是古羯陵伽国都城，保存着坎达吉里与乌达亚吉里石窟、十一世纪的林加拉杰神庙以及西苏帕尔加尔遗址。

• Modern Odisha was constituted as a separate province in 1936, and Bhubaneswar replaced Cuttack as its capital in 1948, when the new state built a planned government quarter around the old temple town.现代奥迪沙邦于 1936 年单独建省，1948 年布巴内斯瓦尔取代克塔克成为首府，新政府在古寺庙城周围规划了行政街区。

• In 1995 the educationist Manojranjan Nayak proposed a private technical institute for the city, and in 1996 the Institute of Technical Education and Research, ITER, admitted its first engineering students.1995 年，教育家马诺伊兰詹·纳亚克提议在布巴内斯瓦尔创办私立技术学院，1996 年技术教育与研究学院（ITER）迎来首批工程学生。

• ITER received approval from the All India Council for Technical Education for its B.Tech programmes and began life as an affiliate of Utkal University, the oldest university in Odisha.ITER 的工学学士项目获全印技术教育委员会批准，创办之初附属于奥迪沙历史最久的乌特卡尔大学。

• From 2002 to 2007 the institute was affiliated with Biju Patnaik University of Technology, the state technical university named after the former chief minister Biju Patnaik.2002 至 2007 年，学院转隶比朱·帕特奈克技术大学——这所以前首席部长比朱·帕特奈克命名的邦立技术大学。

• In 2007 the University Grants Commission declared Siksha 'O' Anusandhan a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act of 1956, and ITER became its first constituent institute.2007 年，大学拨款委员会依 1956 年《大学拨款委员会法》第 3 条宣布该校为“被视为大学”，ITER 成为其首个组成学院。

• The deemed status allowed SOA to award its own degrees, a change that freed it from affiliation fees and let it design curricula for medicine, law and management without a parent university.“被视为大学”地位使 SOA 得以自主授予学位，摆脱附属学院的束缚，并能在没有母体大学的情况下自行设计医学、法学与管理课程。

• Medical education followed the engineering school, and the Institute of Medical Sciences with SUM Hospital became the university's clinical arm, treating patients from across coastal and western Odisha.医学教育继工程之后发展起来，医学研究所与 SUM 医院成为大学的临床支柱，接收来自奥迪沙沿海与西部各地的病人。

• Dental sciences, pharmacy, nursing, agriculture, veterinary science, hotel management and law were added in the 2010s, each as a separate institute with its own admission quota and laboratory space.牙科学、药学、护理、农业、兽医、酒店管理与法学在 2010 年代陆续设立，各自为独立学院，拥有自己的招生名额与实验空间。

• SAAT, the Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Admission Test, has been held annually since 2009 and is now offered at 25 centres in Odisha and six outside the state.SOA 招生考试 SAAT 自 2009 年起每年举行，如今在奥迪沙设 25 个考点，邦外另设 6 个。

• In 2018 the UGC granted SOA Category-I graded autonomy, a status reserved for institutions judged capable of designing their own programmes and setting their own fees.2018 年，大学拨款委员会授予 SOA 第一类分级自主权，这一地位只给被认为有能力自主设计课程与自定学费的院校。

• By 2019 the university offered degrees in engineering, medicine, dentistry, management, hotel management, pharmacy, agriculture, nursing and law, the nine fields that still define its portfolio.到 2019 年，该校已开设工程、医学、牙学、管理、酒店管理、药学、农业、护理与法学学位，这九个领域至今仍界定其学科组合。

• NAAC, the national accreditation council, awarded SOA an A++ grade in its third accreditation cycle, the highest category in the Indian assessment system.印度国家评估与认证委员会在第三轮认证中授予 SOA“A++”等级，这是印度评估体系中的最高档。

• In the 2024 National Institutional Ranking Framework, SOA stood 24th overall, 14th among universities, 26th in engineering, 21st in medicine, 9th in dentistry and 9th in law.在 2024 年印度国家机构排名框架中，SOA 综合列第 24 位、大学类第 14 位、工程第 26 位、医学第 21 位、牙学第 9 位、法学第 9 位。

• The same NIRF exercise placed it 62nd in management and 50th in research, results that made it the highest-ranked private university in Odisha.同一年度 NIRF 还把它列为管理第 62 位、研究第 50 位，这使它成为奥迪沙排名最高的私立大学。

• In 2025 SOA was one of only four Indian universities listed in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, alongside the Indian Institute of Science and the IITs of Delhi and Madras.2025 年，SOA 成为仅有的四所进入泰晤士高等教育世界声誉排名的印度大学之一，另外三所是印度科学理工学院以及德里与马德拉斯两所理工学院。

• Also in 2025 the National Medical Commission approved an increase of 50 MBBS seats at IMS and SUM Hospital-2, expanding the university's medical intake.2025 年，印度国家医学委员会批准 IMS 与 SUM 医院二院增加 50 个临床医学学士名额，扩大了该校的医学招生规模。

• U.S. News placed SOA 1,967th globally for 2026-27, while Times Higher Education put it in the 1001-1200 band for 2027, two very different readings of a young institution.U.S. News 把 SOA 列为 2026-2027 年度全球第 1967 名，泰晤士高等教育 2027 年则把它放在 1001-1200 区间，两份榜单对一所年轻大学的读数差异明显。

• QS assigned the university to the 1201-1400 band for 2027, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities did not list it in the main table.QS 把该校列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录它。

Academics

• The university's ten constituent units are ITER for engineering, IMS and SUM Hospital for medicine, IDS for dental sciences, SPS for pharmacy, SNC for nursing, SNIL for law, IAS for agriculture, IVS and AH for veterinary science, IBCS for business and computer studies, and SHM for hotel management.该校十个组成单位分别是工程类的 ITER、医学类的 IMS 与 SUM 医院、牙科学的 IDS、药学的 SPS、护理的 SNC、法学的 SNIL、农业的 IAS、兽医学的 IVS 与 AH、商学与计算机的 IBCS 以及酒店管理的 SHM。

• ITER teaches civil, computer science, electrical, electronics and communication, mechanical and computer-application programmes, with supporting departments in mathematics, physics, chemistry and the humanities, and postgraduate and doctoral programmes that follow the same applied emphasis.ITER 开设土木、计算机科学、电气、电子与通信、机械及计算机应用等专业，并设数学、物理、化学与人文学科支撑系，研究生与博士项目延续同样的应用导向。

• The Institute of Medical Sciences runs the MBBS and specialist programmes with SUM Hospital, a NABH-accredited tertiary hospital and the largest private teaching hospital in Odisha.医学研究所与 SUM 医院共同开设临床医学学士与专科项目，后者是获 NABH 认证的三级医院，也是奥迪沙最大的私立教学医院。

• The Institute of Dental Sciences, ranked 9th in India by NIRF in 2024, teaches oral surgery, orthodontics, periodontics and community dentistry in its own dental hospital.牙科学研究所 2024 年被 NIRF 列为印度第 9，在附属口腔医院教授口腔外科、正畸、牙周与社区牙医学。

• The School of Pharmaceutical Sciences offers B.Pharm, M.Pharm and doctoral programmes and runs a research laboratory for medicinal chemistry and natural products.药学院开设药学学士、硕士与博士项目，并设药物化学与天然产物研究实验室。

• SUM Nursing Colleges train nurses at diploma, degree and postgraduate levels and supply staff to the university's hospitals and to public health facilities across Odisha.SUM 护理学院培养文凭、本科与研究生层次护士，为校属医院及奥迪沙各地公共卫生机构输送人员。

• The SOA National Institute of Law, ranked 9th in India by NIRF in 2024, combines the LLB and BA-LLB with moot courts, legal aid clinics and internship placements.SOA 国家法学院 2024 年被 NIRF 列为印度第 9，开设法学学士与文学法学双学士，并设模拟法庭、法律援助诊所与实习安排。

• The Institute of Agricultural Sciences teaches agronomy, horticulture, plant protection and agricultural economics, with field plots on the campus outskirts and ICAR-accredited programmes.农业科学研究所教授农学、园艺、植物保护与农业经济，在校区外围设试验田，相关项目获印度农业研究理事会认证。

• The Institute of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry trains veterinarians and runs an animal hospital that serves livestock owners in Khordha district.兽医与畜牧研究所培养兽医，并设动物医院服务库尔达县的养殖户。

• The Institute of Business and Computer Studies offers BBA, BCA, MBA and MCA degrees, the management and IT wing that links the university to Bhubaneswar's software firms.商学与计算机研究所开设工商管理学士、计算机应用学士、工商管理硕士与计算机应用硕士，是连接大学与布巴内斯瓦尔软件企业的管理与信息技术板块。

• The School of Hotel Management operates a training kitchen and a model front office, and places students in hotels in Puri, Kolkata and Bengaluru.酒店管理学院设实训厨房与模拟前台，并把学生安排到普里、加尔各答与班加罗尔的酒店实习。

• Admission to undergraduate programmes is through SAAT, a national-level test held each year, and the university also offers merit scholarships and fee waivers for disadvantaged students.本科录取通过每年举行的全国性 SAAT 考试，学校还为成绩优异与处境不利的学生提供奖学金与学费减免。

• Research is headed by a dean and organised through sixteen research centres, with more than 1,000 scholars pursuing PhDs and 599 doctorates awarded by 2023.科研由一位院长统领，依托 16 个研究中心组织，到 2023 年有 1000 余名学者攻读博士，已授予 599 个博士学位。

• Bibliometric databases record 20,466 works and 483,340 citations under the university's name, a volume built largely on medicine, engineering and materials science.文献计量数据库在该校名下记录作品 20466 篇、被引 483340 次，这一体量主要来自医学、工程与材料科学。

• SOA's programmes hold NBA accreditation for engineering and ICAR accreditation for agriculture, in addition to the institutional NAAC A++ grade.除机构层面的 NAAC A++ 等级外，该校工程专业获 NBA 认证，农业专业获 ICAR 认证。

• The Central Library stocks journals, books and dissertations across engineering, medicine, law and management, and participates in the UGC-INFLIBNET and MHRD-INDEST resource-sharing consortia while subscribing to the major Indian and international databases.中央图书馆收藏工程、医学、法学与管理领域的期刊、图书与学位论文，并加入 UGC-INFLIBNET 与 MHRD-INDEST 资源共享联盟，同时订阅印度与国际主要数据库。

• The university runs an English-language pathway for foreign students and has signed exchange and research agreements with institutions in Asia, Africa and Europe.该校为外国学生开设英语授课通道，并与亚洲、非洲及欧洲院校签署交流与研究协议。

• Its clinical and engineering faculties collaborate on medical devices, hospital information systems and public-health screening, research that the university presents as its applied-science signature.临床与工程院系在医疗器械、医院信息系统与公共卫生筛查上合作，校方把这类研究视为其应用科学特色。

Campus

• The university occupies 127 acres in Bhubaneswar, distributed between the ITER campus at Jagamara-Khandagiri and the health campus at Kalinga Nagar, with institutes and hostels in between and shuttle buses linking the two sites through the teaching day.该校在布巴内斯瓦尔占地 127 英亩，分布于贾加马拉—坎达吉里的 ITER 校区与卡林加纳加尔的医学园区之间，学院与宿舍穿插其间，教学日有班车往返两处。

• The Kalinga Nagar health campus contains IMS, SUM Hospital, the dental institute and the nursing colleges, forming a medical quarter on the city's northern edge.卡林加纳加尔医学园区集中了 IMS、SUM 医院、牙科学院与护理学院，在城市北缘形成一片医学街区。

• SUM Hospital holds NABH accreditation and its diagnostics laboratory holds NABL accreditation, credentials the university cites when recruiting medical students and foreign patients.SUM 医院获 NABH 认证，其诊断实验室获 NABL 认证，校方在招收医学生与吸引外国患者时都会援引这些资质。

• Hostel capacity is divided between 17 girls' blocks housing 5,000 students and 22 boys' blocks housing 7,100, all with Wi-Fi, access to campus medical facilities, a warden and a resident tutor.宿舍分为 17 栋女生楼与 22 栋男生楼，分别容纳 5000 人与 7100 人，均覆盖无线网络并可使用校内医疗设施，每栋楼配一名舍监与一名驻楼导师。

• The SOA Centre for Innovation and Incubation, a non-profit startup incubator, supports student and faculty ventures from the concept stage and admits virtual incubatees from outside Bhubaneswar.SOA 创新与孵化中心是非营利创业孵化器，从概念阶段支持师生创业，并接纳来自布巴内斯瓦尔以外的虚拟入驻团队。

• Bhubaneswar's temple landscape, including the Lingaraj temple, the Khandagiri and Udayagiri caves and the Dhauli peace pagoda, gives the campus a historical setting unusual for a 1990s private university.布巴内斯瓦尔的林加拉杰神庙、坎达吉里与乌达亚吉里石窟以及道利和平塔，为这座 1990 年代创办的私立大学提供了少见的历史环境。

• The campus is a short drive from Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar railway station and the state secretariat, a locational advantage the university markets to out-of-state students.校区距比朱·帕特奈克国际机场、布巴内斯瓦尔火车站与邦政府办公区均只有短程车程，这是校方对外邦学生强调的区位优势。

• SOA was ranked third nationally in the Swachh Campus programme for cleanliness and campus management, an Indian government assessment of hygiene and waste handling.在印度政府评估卫生与垃圾处理的“清洁校园”计划中，SOA 曾获全国第三。

• Sports grounds, a gymnasium and indoor courts serve the university's physical-education requirement, and the coastal climate allows outdoor training for most of the year.运动场、体育馆与室内球场满足体育课需求，沿海气候使户外训练一年中大部分时间可行。

Reputation

• QS placed SOA in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, its third consecutive appearance in the QS world table after entering around the 1200 mark in earlier editions.QS 把 SOA 列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，这是它连续第三年进入 QS 世界榜，早前版本曾接近第 1200 名。

• Times Higher Education ranked it 1001-1200 for 2027, a stronger position than its QS band and one that reflects its teaching and citation profile.泰晤士高等教育 2027 年把它列在 1001-1200，高于其 QS 区间，反映其教学与引用表现。

• U.S. News placed it 1,967th for 2026-27, while the 2026 ARWU main table omitted it, leaving QS and THE as its two strongest international markers.U.S. News 2026-2027 年度列其为第 1967 名，2026 年软科主榜未收录，QS 与泰晤士高等教育因此是它最强的两个国际标记。

• Its NIRF 2024 results, 24th overall and 14th among universities, make it the leading private university in Odisha and one of the strongest deemed universities in eastern India, on a ranking exercise that weighs teaching, research, graduation outcomes and inclusion.其 2024 年 NIRF 综合第 24、大学类第 14，使其成为奥迪沙领头的私立大学与印度东部最强的“被视为大学”之一，该排名综合衡量教学、科研、毕业表现与包容性。

• Dentistry and law are its sharpest subject positions, both ranked 9th in India in 2024, ahead of much older institutions in those fields.牙学与法学是它最锋利的学科位次，2024 年均列印度第 9，领先于这些领域历史更久的院校。

• Medicine at 21st and engineering at 26th place it inside the national top thirty in both professional fields, a rare double for a private university founded in 1996.医学第 21、工程第 26，使它在两个专业领域都进入全国前三十，这对一所 1996 年创办的私立大学而言相当罕见。

• The NAAC A++ grade and UGC Category-I autonomy are the two regulatory credentials that underpin its recruiting pitch and its ability to set fees.NAAC A++ 等级与 UGC 第一类自主权，是支撑其招生宣传与自主定价能力的两项监管资质。

• Its listing in the 2025 THE World Reputation Rankings, one of only four Indian universities, gave it visibility that its research volume alone would not have produced.2025 年进入泰晤士高等教育世界声誉排名、成为印度仅有的四校之一，为它带来了单靠科研体量无法获得的能见度。

• OpenAlex records 20,466 works and 483,340 citations, a citation-to-paper ratio of about 24, healthy for an institution of its age but below the Indian Institutes of Technology.OpenAlex 记录 20466 篇作品与 483340 次被引，篇均约 24 次，对一所年轻院校算健康，但仍低于印度理工学院各校。

• The university has no Nobel laureate or Fields medallist, and its reputation rests on professional education, clinical care and regional development rather than on fundamental research prizes, with output concentrated in medicine and engineering, where applied papers accumulate citations quickly.该校没有诺贝尔奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其声誉建立在专业教育、临床医疗与区域发展之上，而非基础研究奖项，其产出集中于医学与工程，应用论文的引用积累较快。

• Within Bhubaneswar it competes for students with KIIT University and Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, while its law school meets National Law University Odisha in regional moot courts.在布巴内斯瓦尔，它与 KIIT 大学、奥迪沙农业技术大学争夺生源，其法学院则在地区模拟法庭赛中与奥迪沙国立法律大学交手。

Student life

• The university's tagline is "Strive, Observe, Adapt", a three-word formula printed on its publications and repeated at convocations.该校的口号由 Strive、Observe、Adapt 三个英文词组成（奋斗、观察、适应），三词印在出版物上，也在毕业典礼上反复出现。

• Its name, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, is Odia for education and research, and the pairing is treated as a statement of purpose rather than a motto.校名“Siksha 'O' Anusandhan”在奥里亚语中意为“教育与研究”，这一并置被当作办学宗旨而非格言。

• SAAT preparation shapes the final school year of many Odia students, and the test's 25 state centres make it a familiar annual event in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.备考 SAAT 构成许多奥迪沙学生中学最后一年的重心，25 个邦内考点使这场考试成为布巴内斯瓦尔与克塔克每年的固定事件。

• Medical and dental students spend clinical hours in SUM Hospital from the third year, so their student life is organised around ward rotas rather than the academic calendar alone, with postings beginning at eight in the morning and following the hospital's shift system.医学与牙学学生从第三年起在 SUM 医院临床轮转，其学生生活围绕病房排班而非仅按校历展开，轮转从上午八点开始，按医院排班制度进行。

• Student chapters of professional bodies, including IEEE and the Indian Society for Technical Education, run technical festivals, workshops and paper contests on the ITER campus.IEEE 与印度技术教育学会等专业团体的学生分会在 ITER 校区举办技术节、工作坊与论文竞赛。

• Hostel life is segregated by gender, with mess halls, Wi-Fi and medical rooms inside the blocks, and the university runs buses across Bhubaneswar for day scholars.宿舍按性别分区，楼内设食堂、无线网络与医务室，学校还为走读生开行覆盖布巴内斯瓦尔的班车。

• Off campus, students use the cafés and cinemas of Chandrasekharpur and Patia, the Ekamra Haat craft market and the beaches at Puri, an hour away by train.校外生活中，学生常去昌德拉谢卡尔普尔与帕蒂亚的咖啡馆和影院、埃卡姆拉哈特手工艺市场，以及乘火车一小时可达的普里海滩。

• The annual Rath Yatra at Puri and the Lingaraj temple festivals draw students into Odisha's religious calendar, while the university's own foundation-day events fill the campus in the autumn.普里的年度战车节与林加拉杰神庙节庆把学生带入奥迪沙的宗教日历，学校自身的校庆活动则在秋季填满校园。

Notable people

• Manojranjan Nayak, an educationist, founded ITER in 1996 and has served as the university's president, the figure most closely identified with SOA's expansion and still its public face.马诺伊兰詹·纳亚克是教育家，1996 年创办 ITER，并长期担任该校校长，是与 SOA 扩张联系最紧密的人物，至今仍是学校对外的代表面孔。

• Ashok Kumar Mohapatra, a senior administrator, has served as vice-chancellor of the deemed university and represented it at national engineering conferences.阿肖克·库马尔·莫哈帕特拉是资深管理者，曾任该校副校长，并代表学校出席全国工程会议。

• Pradipta Kishore Dash, an electrical engineer, directs the Multidisciplinary Research Centre and has published on power systems and intelligent control.普拉迪普塔·基肖尔·达什是电气工程师，主持多学科研究中心，在电力系统与智能控制领域发表著述。

• Pradipta Kumar Nanda, a professor of computer science, served as dean of research and has supervised doctoral work in machine learning and data analytics.普拉迪普塔·库马尔·南达是计算机科学教授，曾任研究院长，指导机器学习与数据分析方向的博士研究。

• Santosh Kumar Swain, a professor of otorhinolaryngology at IMS and SUM Hospital, is among the university's most prolific clinical authors in ear, nose and throat medicine.桑托什·库马尔·斯温是 IMS 与 SUM 医院耳鼻咽喉科教授，是该校在耳鼻喉医学领域最高产的临床作者之一。

• Souvagya Panigrahi, a neurosurgeon at IMS and SUM Hospital, publishes on skull-base surgery and traumatic brain injury and trains residents in the department.苏瓦吉亚·帕尼格拉希是 IMS 与 SUM 医院神经外科医生，发表颅底外科与创伤性脑损伤研究，并在科内培训住院医师。

• Arun Agarwal, a professor of electronics and communication engineering at ITER, works on signal processing and biomedical instrumentation and supervises PhD students.阿伦·阿加瓦尔是 ITER 电子与通信工程教授，研究信号处理与生物医学仪器，并指导博士生。

• Shruti Mishra, a computer scientist who completed her PhD at SOA, has published on data mining and software engineering and is part of the university's young faculty cohort.什鲁蒂·米什拉是在 SOA 取得博士学位的计算机科学家，发表数据挖掘与软件工程研究，属于该校年轻教师群体。

• The university's alumni network is still young, and its most visible graduates are clinicians, engineers and civil servants in Odisha rather than national political or business figures.该校校友网络尚年轻，最显眼的毕业生是奥迪沙的临床医生、工程师与公务员，而非全国性政治或商业人物。