XIM University Bhubaneswar - Infrastructure

Every MBA and MMS-BF programme is fully residential, so XIM University hostel stay is compulsory. The New Campus residences offer single and double rooms for 3,000 students, with separate residences for men and women. Most rooms are shared, and single rooms are offered mainly to seniors. Rooms have 24-hour Wi-Fi, and residences have washing machines, water coolers, geysers, televisions, indoor games and power back-up.

Dining halls serve a fixed daily menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner that changes every month, along with an a la carte menu. The mess is managed by a students' committee and serves vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals.

The International Center on the New Campus has a built-up area of 65,000 sq ft. It houses a sports complex, gymnasium, 53 lecture halls, research centres, food courts, research scholar cabins, activity and meeting rooms, an atrium, an Education Development Center with training halls, and 171 double-sharing living rooms.

The 3,000-seat auditorium, inaugurated on 26 February 2023, has an octagonal design, a roof span of 65 metres, about 8,737 square metres of carpeted space and a 15-metre cantilever balcony. As per the bulletin, it is the largest of its kind in Odisha. The complex also has a 450-seat lecture hall and 150-seat video conferencing halls, and a mini auditorium seats 350.

The XIM University library at both campuses holds 81,389 books, more than 28,000 e-books, 20,040 electronic journals and 29 databases, along with 1,816 cases and 40,000 online company annual reports. Databases include EBSCO Business Source Complete, ABI/INFORM, JSTOR, Emerald, ScienceDirect, CMIE, Statista, Euromonitor and Indiastat, and e-resources can be used off campus through RemoteXS.

The Computer Resources and Data Centre runs a 10G fibre optic backbone across academic blocks, hostels and faculty residences, with a 3,600 Mbps leased line at the New Campus. The university is a member of the SAP University Alliance Program and is covered by the Microsoft Campus License. Students use software such as IBM SPSS, AMOS, Stata, NVivo, EViews and SmartPLS, and an open edX learning management system.

• Health: a dispensary where a doctor is available from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm every day except Sundays and university holidays, three full-time nurses and a 24x7 ambulance.

• Safety: a gated campus with 24x7 security guards, and CCTV in the administrative, library and academic buildings and the residences.

• Sports: a gymnasium, jogging tracks and facilities for basketball, badminton, cricket, football, tennis, table tennis and volleyball. Students take part in Valhalla, the annual sports meet at XLRI Jamshedpur.

• Transport: the university has tied up with private partners for student transport.

Each school has its own committees: XIMAHR, the HR association founded in 1987; RMAX, the Rural Managers' Association; ConXerv for sustainability, with its Parivartan conclave; HabituX for urban management; and InfinX for business finance. University-wide groups include X-Cubate, the student entrepreneurship wing, X-Stage, the cultural committee behind the Xamboree fest, XQuizzite, SpeakUp and the Social Responsibility Cell.