Held in the institute’s verdant Sambalpur campus, the launch fulfills a bold promise made in May 2025 and perfectly complements the multidisciplinary, industry-aligned learning envisioned in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
These four-year degrees are intended to develop moral innovators and policy architects, and they take inspiration from prestigious international universities such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon University, which offer comparable B.S. programs. The first cohort, which consists of 178 students from more than 20 Indian states—including Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and even the isolated Lakshadweep islands—is renowned for its academic excellence and variety. In an encouraging gender balance, 88 students (69 men