Fakir Mohan University is a university situated in Balasore

Balasore

Balasore is a strategically located city in the state of Orissa, about north of the state capital Bhubaneswar, in eastern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Balasore district. It is best known for Chandipur beach. It is also the site of the Indian Ballistic Missile Defense...

, Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It was carved out of the Utkal University

Utkal University

Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is the oldest university in Orissa and the 17th oldest university in India. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating university that has produced some of the best brains in Orissa. There are at 26 post-graduate departments at the university campus for studies and research in...

in 1999 and acts as an affiliating university. Presently the university has more than 60 colleges and 150,000 students at the graduate and postgraduate levels.

Facilities

The University has well organized Computer Lab., Biotechnology Lab. , Environmental Science Lab.and Applied Physics & Ballistics Lab. Besides its Lab in the Dept.,there are centralised computer centre, Central Library with adequate connectivity facilities. Welfare facilities like Bank, Canteen , Gym , Boys Hostel , Girls Hostel , Staff Quarters etc. are also there in the present campus.

Departments

• P.G.Department of Applied Physics & Ballistics
• P.G.Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology
• P.G.Department of Environment Sciences
• P.G.Department of Population Studies
• P.G.Department of Business Management
• P.G.Department of Information & Communication Technology
• P.G.Department of Social Sciences
• Centre of Distance & Continuing Education (CDCE )