My Educational Life at North Orissa University (MSCB University)

The Integrated B.Ed-M.Ed (3 years) course, as the name itself suggests, is an integrated course of both B.Ed. and M.Ed., which could be separately completed in 4 years. Due to the Integrated nature of the course, you can get 2 degrees, one bachelors degree and one masters degree in 3 years. This course is great for those who want to purse teaching as a profession. After completing this course successfully, one can be eligible for applying for various teaching jobs at different levels in education field. This course also allows us to move in the direction of teacher education and research as well. This course helps us to save 1 year which can be a lot for some students in their carrier. This course has 3 years in total and hence has 6 semesters. The examinations are conducted semester wise including both internal and external examinations. We have to complete internships during our course study to complete it successfully. Overall, this course is a very good and benificial course.

In our course of Integrated B.Ed-M.Ed, we are not offered any stipend for the internships. As internships are a mandatory part of our curriculum, we are not provided with any financial assistance as we are not hiered by any company. Our internships include visit to different educational institutions, especially government institutions of different educational level, to provide teaching and gain experience. We complete our internships with whole hearted gratitude and happiness as we get the chance to interact with students and faculties of different educational institutions and different backgrounds as well, and in return we get a lot of experience from it, which eventually helps us to develop our skills, personality and career.

Integrated B.Ed-M.Ed is a Self-financing course. It has 3 educational years and each year, the course fees is aroud Rs.52000. During the admission, you have to pay an one time seminar fees of about Rs.3000, which is mandatory for everyone. For every semester, examination fees need to be submitted, which is nearly about Rs. 1000 to 1500. For students of economically and socially weaker backgrounds, like SC and ST, the course fees is around Rs.40000 to 45000. Educational - financial assistance is provided by the government in the form of scholarship to the students who come from socially and economically disadvantaged background / households. The scholarship amount varies from student to student based on their caste and economic condition, and the amount generally ranges from Rs.10000 to Rs.45000 approximately. Our course doesn't have any campus placements.

Our University is well equipped and have a good infrastructure, and still there is a constant effort for development from the management. All the departments have adequate facilities, resources, faculties and funding. Our university has its Central Library which can be accessed by every student and has vast amount of books and digital resources available. Our university also have different clubs for different cocurricular and extracurricular activities and many events and competitions are organised on a regular basis. Our university also conducts sports events and cultural events as well. Apart from annual sports competitions and cultural night and celebrations, our university also conducts Inter University Sports Competition on a National Level. We enjoy our student life to our fullest here in our university.

My experience of getting admission into MSCB University (formerly North Orissa University) was very good. The admission process was smooth. I had applied for taking admission in the Integrated B.Ed-M.Ed course of Education Department, and the application procedure was online. The application fees was Rs.500 only. For taking admission into the course you have to qualify the entrance exam and the minimum eligibility criteria for taking admission into the course is that you must have completed Post Graduation from a recognised college/university. The process of application and admission was very smooth and easy. The application process occurs only once a year and the course duration is 3 years.