Dharanidhar College is a college in the district of Keonjhar in the Indian state of Odisha. The college was established due to noble efforts of the local elite and the unflinching support of the district administration in 1957 as an intermediate science college. It was headed by the collector R. Venkatraman, IAS and granted affiliation by the Utkal University, the then only university of the state, the same year, with the name Keonjhar Science College.