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
Take a TestThe 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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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.







Why Industry-Integrated Education is the education India needs now ?
The Skill-to-Job Gap Is Real
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Programs designed by the Industry, for the Industry
Orchid partners with 800+ companies to give you the platform from day one.
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A new campus is taking shape in Mangan, North Sikkim — at the foot of one of the world's great mountain ranges, and in the heart of one of India's most underserved regions. We chose this place deliberately. Because the country's next generation of nurses, engineers, and entrepreneurs should not have to leave home to find an education worth having. Built on 10 acres, designed for work-integrated learning, and rooted in the values of the community around it — the Orchid campus is being built where it is needed most.
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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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Tell us about yourself. A few short questions, and our AI will recommend the Orchid faculty and course that fits you best — and the apprenticeship track you'd begin from your first semester. Two minutes well spent.
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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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