[6] The university offers under-graduate, post-graduate and doctoral courses in the fields of engineering and technology, agricultural sciences, architecture planning and design, mining, teachers' education, media and communication, paramedics and allied Health Sciences, pharmacy and life sciences, management, applied sciences and a number of vocational trades in its two major campuses.

The main campus of the university at Paralakhemundi was known previously as Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management (JITM), this was established in 1997.

The institute was taken over by a group of academics led by Dr. Mukti Kanta Mishra and Prof. D.N.

[8] In 2008, a second campus, Centurion Institute of Technology, was opened at Bhubaneswar.

Subsequently, JITM was transformed into Centurion University of Technology and Management in August 2010, through an act of Odisha Legislative Assembly.