The higher education in Odisha has taken massive structural and systemic changes that have started showing encouraging results. About 20 years ago, the class rooms were only a four walled structure for teaching, but now it has undergone a sea change with modernization and infrastructure developments. The is visibility of Smart class rooms, use of ICT tools in general colleges also. The number is gradually increasing with flow of state govt., UGC and RUSA fund. The challenges for planners, administrators and teachers are huge to provide online educational platform, educational apps, smart class rooms with wi-fi campus to a considerable percentage of college and universities in 2030.