Vice-chancellor posts of four state public universities are lying vacant. While the selection process for Odisha University of Technology and Research (OUTR) Bhubaneswar is in its final stage, the process for others has just started. These universities were OUTR (formerly College of Engineering and Technology), Utkal University of Culture (UUC) Bhubaneswar, Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Rourkela, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo (MSCB) University (formerly North Odisha University).