Rourkela is the educational, technical and medical research hub of Western Odisha and even students from all parts of Odisha and some parts of neighboring states Jharkhand and West Bengal come here to pursue higher education.
It houses many English medium schools which provide CBSE and ICSE certificates to their students.

There are ICSE-ISC board schools like St. Paul's School, Mt. Carmel School, St. Joseph's Convent School, Ispat English Medium School, Indo English School, Chinmaya Vidyalaya(E.M.), MGM English Medium School, DeSouza's School, St. Thomas School, St. Mary's School, Loreto English School.
Most of them are missionary based organizations run by licensee trustees.
The CBSE board schools include Deepika English Medium School, Delhi Public School, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) School and St.
Arnold school.
The Central government has its own Kendriya Vidyalaya in Sector-6 and in Bondamunda.
It also has notable Odia medium schools like Chinmaya Vidyalaya;
The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT-R) ranks 2nd (NIRF Ranking 2018) in terms of education and placement quality in India.
The students of various schools in Rourkela represent their schools in various national and international level competitions including IMO, IChO, and NASA.

Rourkela has a Hi-Tech Medical College and Hospital Rourkela and is the only city in Odisha to have a private medical college outside Bhubaneshwar.
The local leaders have demanded a government medical college in Rourkela.
There are over 15 colleges for arts, science, and commerce streams under the Sambalpur University.
Some of the famous ones are Government Autonomous College, Rourkela Municipal College, Ispat College, SG Women's College.
There are also private engineering & management colleges like Rourkela Institute of Management Studies (RIMS), DAMITS, Rourkela Institute of Technology (RIT), Kanak Manjari Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences(KMIPS), Padmanava College of Engineering (PCE) and Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology these colleges come under the jurisdiction of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) and the head office is located in Chennd, Rourkela.
Rourkela is the educational, technical and medical research hub of Western Odisha and even students from all parts of Odisha and some parts of neighboring states Jharkhand and West Bengal come here to pursue higher education. It houses many English medium schools which provide CBSE and ICSE certificates to their students.
There are ICSE-ISC board schools like St. Paul's School, Mt. Carmel School, St. Joseph's Convent School, Ispat English Medium School, Indo English School, Chinmaya Vidyalaya(E.M.), MGM English Medium School, DeSouza's School, St. Thomas School, St. Mary's School, Loreto English School. Most of them are missionary based organizations run by licensee trustees. The CBSE board schools include Deepika English Medium School, Delhi Public School, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) School and St.Arnold school. The Central government has its own Kendriya Vidyalaya in Sector-6 and in Bondamunda. It also has notable Odia medium schools like Chinmaya Vidyalaya;
The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT-R) ranks 2nd (NIRF Ranking 2018) in terms of education and placement quality in India. The students of various schools in Rourkela represent their schools in various national and international level competitions including IMO, IChO, and NASA.
Rourkela has a Hi-Tech Medical College and Hospital Rourkela and is the only city in Odisha to have a private medical college outside Bhubaneshwar. The local leaders have demanded a government medical college in Rourkela. There are over 15 colleges for arts, science, and commerce streams under the Sambalpur University. Some of the famous ones are Government Autonomous College, Rourkela Municipal College, Ispat College, SG Women's College. There are also private engineering & management colleges like Rourkela Institute of Management Studies (RIMS), DAMITS, Rourkela Institute of Technology (RIT), Kanak Manjari Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences(KMIPS), Padmanava College of Engineering (PCE) and Purushottam Institute of Engineering and Technology these colleges come under the jurisdiction of Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) and the head office is located in Chennd, Rourkela.
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