Pattamundai College, affiliated to Utkal University, Odisha, is situated away from the din and bustle of the town with five meadows and rich corn fields around. It came into being in 1970 as an Arts College with the provision for teaching pre-University Humanities course. The institute at present is a family of 1475 students with boys and girls of 869 and 606 respectively taking education at under graduate level in Arts, Commerce and Science disciplines with 80 numbers of teaching and non teaching faculties.
With a long history of 50 years and a picturesque sprawling campus of 14.6 acres land of its own is indeed a testimony of truly materialized dream of education lovers of Pattamundai. Since fifty springs has been passed, this institution continuously ventilating knowledge and has been playing a pivotal role in the development of Pattamundai and its surrounding regions. With the modest strength of 128 students in the year of its inception-1970, besides all odds and constraints the college grew manifold in leaps and bounds. It is carefully nurtured by illustrious academicians, administrators, dedicated faculties and alumni, with institutionalised efforts over the years, and it has become a premiere institution in the academic map of Odisha.
In its onward march, the institution cradled with one faculty in Arts in 1970, and introduced Honours in Political Science, History, Economics in 1978 and English, Odia, Sociology, Philosophy & Education in 1989.Then Commerce faculty was opened in 1979 and Science faculty in 1989 with introduction of Chemistry and Mathematics Honours in 1994-94 and Botany, Physics and Zoology Honours in 1998 added to its glory.The University was pleased to open a vocational subject of Tourism and Travel Management in 1998 which illuminated as land mark in development and expansion of the academic area of the college. The college has a permanent affiliation and has been listed under 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC act which withstands the academic and administrative standards of the college. In response to the changing needs of the society and as per UGC norms innovative experiments are being carried out with help of computer net working for making the teaching learning process interactive and participative. With the need of the time, the institution expanded its area of innovation in different respects to meet the requirement of the students as well as different stake holders.
With the infrastructural growth such as addition of new buildings, hostels, renovation of library laboratories and playground, it also emphasized to enhance its academic quality to reach the institution to a new height. It contributed toppers in Sociology and Mathematics at University level in different years with many more best students along with achievements in sports and other fields.The institution also adopted the new curriculum as changed by Utkal University at different times and prepared the students accordingly with a new idea to compete with the other in national and international levels. The contribution of its NCC, NSS and YRC students has a remarkable effect in serving the society by awaring and donating blood, planting trees, campus cleaning, observing national days etc. The institution is one step ahead by planting about 4000 trees since 1990 to make the campus an eco-friendly environment with a permanent green and waste management policy of its own. The institution is diversified with a planed electricity management to save energy by switching off the unused buildings and converting whole institution with LED bulbs. This year, the institution has also planned to install solar power to provide the main building where main electric consumption is there.
The institution has a fully operational website providing day to day information and has also fully automated library with INFLIBNET connection and e-portals to provide easy access to its all the stake holders.
