The college remained affiliated to Patna University even after the separation of Odisha from Bihar in 1936. The affiliation was finally transferred to newly created Utkal University in 1943. In fact during these times Urdu as a separate department for the first time in a college in Odisha was inaugurated at Ravenshaw College & headed by renowned Urdu scholar Mr Syed Manzar Hasan. In fact, it was Ravenshaw College that gave birth to the new university, nursed and sustained it. If walls could speak, the present zoology department building could say how the university started functioning on its premises more than half a century ago. The law department of Ravenshaw College was finally separated and gave birth to the Madhusudan Law College.