bhubaneswar the soa a deemed to be university has been conferred with the edushine excellence award after being adjudged the most preferred private university of the year in the east at the 12th assocham national education summit 2019 held in new delhi on thursdaysoas faculty of engineering and technology the institute of technical education and research iter was also presented the edushine excellence award at the function after being chosen the most preferred engineering institute of the year in the eastformer president pranab mukherjee presented the two awards in the presence of union minister suresh prabhu and vicechairman of all india council for technical education aicte m p pooniaanurag satpathy and saurjya ranjan das received the awards on behalf of the soathe institute was placed 24th in the country in the university category in the ranking conducted by the national institutional ranking framework nirf hrd ministry in 2018 while it was ranked 38th among all institutions