Leading the Way in Education: Innovating Through Industry-Aligned Courses, Industry Readiness, and Pioneering Programs

In a conversation with Shiksha.com, Prof. A. Sudhakar talks about three key strategies that help ASB stand out in the educational landscape. One standout programme is ASB pioneering PGDM in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, exemplifying a commitment to innovation and excellence

Prof. A. Sudhakar is a distinguished academician and administrator with a rich career spanning 37 years. He holds a remarkable academic record with M. Com, M. Phil, and Ph.D. degrees from Osmania University. Throughout his tenure, he has excelled in various administrative roles, such as Registrar, Director – Academics, Dean, and Head at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University in the Department of Commerce.

Q1. What are the three things that your institute/college/university is doing that will enable it to differentiate itself from competition?

Industry-aligned course structure to suit the corporate demands packaged into functional specializations branching into Major – Minor streams in order to create uncontested student experience. This is made possible by our research to avoid the sea of sameness.

Q2. What are the top three initiatives undertaken by you that are helping your students become more industry ready?

We adopt student centric Teaching – Learning practices inviting Industry experts and Professors of practice and the celebrated alumni. This amalgam reflects the expectations of the Industry, transformers of knowledge and beneficiaries of the output resulting in enhanced Industry readiness. We provide opportunities by immersing our students into Global Culture, Teaching – Learning practices and transnational career opportunities.

Q3. What are the key attributes that a student should have in order to

1. 1. Qualify for your institutions

• Aptitude for Management profession
• Appetite for mastering the nuances of the art of management
• Ability to work in groups and create a synergy.

1. Get top grades in your institution

• Keeping abreast of the developments in the chosen domain and incorporating them into a well chiselledcomprehension.
• Not allowing a learning to be a syllabus specific and thus becoming more investigative in quenching the thirst for more and more knowledge.
• Constant Interaction with volatile world to decode the relevance or irrelevance of the knowledge so acquired.

Q4.Which programme/s would you say is/are your best? What is it that helps your institution differentiate itself for this programme?

We are tech-blended institution. We are the first to launch the programme imparting total skill set in the upend coming domain of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Efforts are on to make it the ultimate destination for aspirants of a PGDM programme adopting a focus strategy to create Blue Ocean.

Q5. What are you doing to improve/drive better campus placements for your current students and alumni? What kind of jobs routinely come to campus? What would you say are the key recruitment trends for your college (observed over the past five years)?

• Maintaining close corporate connects for placements
• Not losing sight of need for accentuating skill basket and tinkering with the same as and when warranted highlighting the importance of communication skills, soft skills and people skills.
• Most of the jobs involve in ‘Analytics’ invite our students.