From Jeypore College, since 1947
A line that runs from the inaugural class of Jeypore College in July 1947 to the present batch, over seventy-eight cohorts and counting.
For Vikram Dev University records (2023 onwards) and the predecessor Vikram Deb (Autonomous) College records, the Office of the Registrar issues transcripts on application. The University additionally pushes degrees to the National Academic Depository (NAD) and DigiLocker for graduates of the post-2023 cohorts.
The Vikram Dev University Alumni Association is constituted under the University Statutes, with chapters proposed across the four districts and at major Indian metros. Registration is free.
The Founder's Scholarship endowment supports two in-district scheduled-area students per programme per year. The Library Acquisitions Fund supports collection-building. Donations to the University, an institution recognised under Section 12 of the UGC Act, qualify for tax benefits under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961, where applicable.
The first Convocation of Vikram Dev University is scheduled for March 2027. Alumni of the predecessor college and of the post-Charter cohorts will be invited.
In service of the four districts
Across seventy-eight years and seventy-eight graduating cohorts, Vikram Deb College (and now Vikram Dev University) has educated generations of administrators, teachers, journalists, doctors, and public-service workers who have served the four southern Odisha districts and beyond. The Office of the Registrar is constituting an Alumni Verification Committee to authenticate, with documentary evidence, every name placed on this page. The University will not publish a name without that verification.
This page is intentionally short. A directory of distinguished alumni for an institution this old is a serious archival exercise. The University chooses to leave it provisionally short rather than populate it with names that cannot be verified against admission rolls, mark-sheets, and convocation records. A complete, verified directory will replace this notice in the months ahead, in batches as each cohort's records are reconciled.
The institutional records, the Annual Reports of the autonomous-college era, and public press archives indicate alumni have entered the following fields of public life. Where a specific named alumnus's record can be authenticated, the entry will appear under the relevant heading with a citation:
Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, and Odisha Administrative Service officers serving in the State and at the Centre.
Faculty in higher-education institutions across Odisha and beyond, school-system leadership, and educational researchers.
Elected representatives, panchayat-level governance, the cooperative sector, and tribal-rights advocacy.
Reporters, editors, and contributors to Odia and English print and broadcast media; poets and authors in Odia and Desiya.
Government and private medical-service practitioners, public-health workers, and rural-health administrators in the KBK region.
Officers in the public-sector mineral and aluminium enterprises operating in Koraput (NALCO, OMC, MCL) and entrepreneurs across the four districts.
The Alumni Verification Committee invites every former student of the predecessor college and of the University to register. Verified entries will appear, with the alumna/alumnus's consent, under the appropriate field of service.
The University's relationship with its alumni is mediated by the Office of the Registrar pending formal constitution of the Alumni Association under the new Statutes. The names and contact details of alumni are processed under the DPDP-aligned privacy notice; alumni may withdraw consent at any time.
