SRI SRI UNIVERSITY

SSU Flashback 2018 :

The year has given us enough reasons to celebrate. There were several monumental achievements and new beginnings. It has been a year of accolades, awards, start-up success stories and many firsts for the university. The university has redefined the education system in more ways than one and when the efforts are recognised, it only motivates us to work harder. Let us relive those milestones:

Awards and Recognitions :

• Global Powerhouse of Peace Award~ A recognition that was bestowed by the NVP organization.
• Geneva to the University for focus on the country’s progress through scientific, eco-friendly and small scale farming.
• Best Boot Camp Start up Award was bestowed by the CM of Odisha as part of the ‘Start-up
• India Odisha Yatra’. We also became the Nodal Center for startups in Odisha.
• Indian Green Building Council-Green Champion~ The only Indian University to receive the award for building student capacity for green architecture.
• Best University for contribution in the field of culture, higher education and spiritual education was awarded to the university by the Odisha-Press-Media-Television Awards 2018.
• Best Vice Chancellor Award~ The award was bestowed by the Odisha-Press-Media-Television

 Awards 2018

• Sri Sri University ranked 13 out of the top 25 private and deemed universities in the country.
• The ranking was done by a popular magazine ‘Higher Education Review’, known for its perceptive coverage on higher education and special issues on rankings.

The University promotes young minds and innovation and thus hosted the biggest conglomeration of entrepreneurs. The National Startup Week at SSU saw the participation of over 100 startup teams, 2000 professionals and students, 50 CEOs and 20 active sponsors/partners. More than 700 ideas were pitched at the Start up India Odisha Yatra to make it the biggest and the best event of the series.Also, 7 startup ideas from the campus were selected in the top-75 list by the Government of Odisha.

The 5th convocation has brought forth yet another set of new records as 317 Graduates and Post Graduates took their graduation oath and 2 researchers were conferred with a PhD degree by our Lifetime President, Sri Sri Ravishankar ji. An exclusive Educators Meet was conducted in the presence of Gurudev on ‘Holistic Education – a new paradigm’ which witnessed participation from 50 educational institutions.

The very first TedX at our campus conducted on March 24th, witnessed experience sharing by personalities like Prachi Paandya and youth icon Sudhanshu Kaushik. Another first, Josh Talks Live Cuttack, Odisha was held at our University on 27th October to inspire the people of Cuttack with extraordinary yet unknown ideas. This year, we also conducted our first ever ‘SSU Excellence Awards’for recognizing the excellent work done by our Academic and Administrative departments.

The year was also a great year for Sports and other extracurricular activities. Our University students bagged 7 awards at NLUO, Cuttack in various Sports like Basketball, Chess, Football etc. while our Cricket team won ABCD Championship Cup held at Digha, West Bengal. 

The students of Architecture bagged the first position in dance & third position in jewellery making competition in Zonasa 2018, an event that was hosted by PMCA, Cuttack. Forty other architecture colleges were also part of the event.

Conferences and Events :

• The Azerbaijan multiculturalism course was a first of its kind. The university in partnership with the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre, Government of Azerbaijan initiated this collaboration.
• A three-day conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution saw the attendance of International Jurist, Vice Chancellor of NLUO and many other key dignitaries.
• The fourth National Agribusiness Conclave (Krishimukh 2018) was a unique platform for policymakers, researchers, producers, industrial leaders/ practitioners and agri-business management students to discuss economic policies and societal issues on agriculture.
• The University hosted the biggest financial event of the year~’ Investellar-A place where Bulls meet the Bears’.
• The year ended with an insightful and invigorating session ‘Tejaswini-The Light Within’ with Smt. Bhanu Narasimhan organised by Charchika-The Women’s Leadership Forum.

 The year has been fruitful and exciting for the university and it is only the beginning!