Panchayat Prahallad College (PPC), Cuttack was established in 1979.

Its affiliated to Utkal University.

The college was started to promote higher education in this area. It is a private and well known college in this rural region.

The objective of the college is to provide excellence in education at the undergraduate level to the students of all communities and especially to the financially backward students in the rural area of the state.

The college offers the undergraduate courses in the discipline of arts and science. All academic activities are carried out in accordance with the prescribed syllabi, examination schedules and academic calendar of the Utkal University. The college is well equipped with all modern facilities.

This is the oldest university in Orissa and the seventeenth oldest university in India. The University was started under the Utkal University Act, 1943. It is a teaching-cum-affiliating University that has produced some of the best brains in Orissa.

There are at present twenty-six Post-Graduate Departments located in the University Campus for studies and research in various disciplines of Science, Humanities, Business Administration, Social Science and others. It has the largest space amongst all universities in Bhubaneswar and is also the most centrally located one.

It has one of the highest numbers of educational departments in India and is also the state largest in this respect. The University has now the jurisdiction over 9 districts, viz, Angul, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Khurda, Nayagarh and Puri.