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India's foremost Learn & Earn University.

A UGC-recognised university in Mangan, North Sikkim — where every student earns a degree, an apprenticeship, and an income, from the first day of class.

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Industry Partners design your course specifically for their own needs.

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If you have not found a suitable career path, you can take a short test of a few set of questions. We will find the suitable choice with our Industry Partners

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The world is changing. The degree that works is the one built around real work.

For too long, a degree and a real career have been two separate journeys — one ending where the other begins. Orchid is built to close that gap. Here, classroom learning and paid industry work happen together, from the first semester, so you graduate already experienced, already earning, already ahead.

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India's projected skilled-workforce shortage by 2027
85
Million
Global skilled-worker shortage by 2030 (FICCI–KPMG)
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Companies
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Orchid's Industry-Integrated Education is going to be an Industry Standard for Employers.

Industry-Integrated Education places the workplace at the centre of the curriculum. It refuses the long detour between learning and earning that traditional higher education has accepted for too long. What you study in the classroom is what you practise in the workplace — at the same time, in the same week, under the same roof of one institution.

At Orchid, every student begins a paid apprenticeship from the first semester. By graduation, you carry three years of real industry experience, a nationally valid degree, and a track record of work no résumé can replicate. It is education that earns its keep — and education that earns alongside you.

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Why Industry-Integrated Education is the education India needs now ?

The Skill-to-Job Gap Is Real

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Work Is the Only Honest Assessment

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Earning Is Dignity

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Industry Becomes the Curriculum

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Three Years of Track Record

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A National Imperative

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Programs designed by the Industry, for the Industry

800+ Skilling Industry Collaborations
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Orchid partners with 800+ companies to give you the platform from day one.

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Orchid is more than its classrooms. Each programme below is a dedicated initiative — for the student who wants to build a company, study abroad, join real research, or compete for industry talent. Explore where an Orchid education can take you.

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Some questions are better asked aloud. Book a virtual meeting with an Orchid counsellor — we'll talk you through the faculties, the fees, the scholarships, and the apprenticeship tracks, at a pace that works for you and your parents.

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A campus in the foothills of the Himalayas, in India's first organic state. Clean air, fresh food, open green spaces, and the slow grandeur of the mountains. At Orchid, campus life is not a break from learning — it is a healthier, fuller way to live the three years that shape the rest of your life.

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