School of Communication, XIM University, Bhubaneswar Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

With academic activities round-the-clock, students are required to live on the campus. There are separate Residences for gents and ladies. All the rooms have 24-hour Internet connectivity through the latest Wi-Fi technology.  With the installation of laser printers and photocopying machines, round-the-clock printing and copying facilities are available to the students. The Residences also house the Multi-purpose Hall, Cooperative Store, and a Book Club. All the Residences are equipped with washing machines, water coolers, geysers, telephones, televisions, and indoor games like carrom, pool table, and table tennis. We also have facilities for uninterrupted power supply to all the Residences during power failure.

With academic activities round-the-clock, students are required to live on the campus. There are separate Residences for gents and ladies. All the rooms have 24-hour Internet connectivity through the latest Wi-Fi technology.  With the installation of laser printers and photocopying machines, round-the-clock printing and copying facilities are available to the students. The Residences also house the Multi-purpose Hall, Cooperative Store, and a Book Club. All the Residences are equipped with washing machines, water coolers, geysers, telephones, televisions, and indoor games like carrom, pool table, and table tennis. We also have facilities for uninterrupted power supply to all the Residences during power failure.

XIM University Library goes far beyond the realm of just a compilation of books. It is a treasure house of information and knowledge that employs trained professionals to preserve, systematize and administer so that they can contribute successfully to the continuing education and self-improvement of students, research scholars and faculty members by providing meaningful assistance to identifying, extracting and disseminating proper information from the maze of material available in its resources. Besides the print materials, the old and new campus Libraries have various electronic resources in the form of Corporate and Economic databases (Indian/International) like EBSCO (Business Source Complete), ABI Inform Complete, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier (Science direct), JSTOR, Emerald Management Xtra, Sage Database, J-gate, ISI Emerging Market database, CMIE, INFORMS, India Business Insight, Statista, Euromonitor International and Indiastat. All these databases are accessible from outside campus through RemoteXS. The Bloomberg Lab in the Library is the first of its kind in the eastern region of India

LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS

    • 78453 General books

    • 28000+ e-books

    • 20040 Journals (electronic Journals)

    • 29 Databases

    • 300 Print copy journals

    • 4030 Bound Volumes of Periodicals

    • 40000 Online Company Annual Reports

    • 1725 CDs (Management films and Books)

    • 360 DVDs

    • 1816 Cases

    • 350 Working Papers

    • 22 Newspapers

    • Digital Newspapers

The College lab has registered Adobe Creative Cloud (academic version) for imaging and graphic design besides Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer for real-time film and video editing. Workstations give students ample chances to practice what they learn in classrooms. Professional editing and animation are done on all the systems using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Maya.

XIM University prepares students for the corporate world by providing the best sports facilities. The fitness enthusiasts can experience body-mind balance by working out in the well-equipped gymnasium and jogging tracks. Basketball, Badminton, Cricket, Football, Tennis, Table Tennis and Volleyball are the popular campus sports. The students had participated in the sports meet called ‘Valhalla’ at XLRI, Jamshedpur in the previous academic years and were the runners-up of the whole sports event. Periodical sports events are organized by the sports committee to add relaxation for the physique as well as to revitalize from intellectual fatigue. Besides sports events, the Student Executive Council (SEC) takes initiatives in arranging cultural events and intellectual programs.

The college has a Gym facility for the students.

The college has good networking for the alumni association.

The college has a Wi-fi enabled campus.

The Computer Resources and Data Centre (CRDC) at the new and old campuses provide all IT and computing resources to the University's students, faculty, and staff members. The University provides desktops to all faculty and staff. All the computers are connected to the campus LAN/ Wi-Fi, supported by fibre optic backbone. The campus network covers the academic blocks, administrative blocks, classrooms, libraries, hostels, and faculty residences. All members on the new campus network have access to the internet 24/7 through 3.6 Gbps (1:1) leased line and 2 Gbps (1:1) leased line at the old campus.

    • Unified Wireless Network all over the campus 

    • High performance Network Security Appliances 

    • 24 TB SAN Box 

    • Digital / IP Telephony (VOIP) 

    • Mail Exchange Server

    • Video Conferencing System 

    • Azure Cloud 

    • Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus

    • Panasonic Video Conferencing System 

    • 8 Computer Labs at the new Campus 

    • 5 Computer Labs at the old Campus

The Classroom Complex includes air-conditioned lecture halls, seminar rooms, syndicate rooms, multimedia hall, computer labs and an executive classroom. The classrooms have educational audio/video equipment, tablet PCs, computers with large monitors, LCD projectors and network connections.  While most classes are held in the lecture halls, some prefer the lawn adjacent to the classroom complex for education with the soulful touch of nature.