Value added education at IIT-H

Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is conducting one of the many fractional courses at IIT Hyderabad. The programme is called ‘Empowering three billion' and shares his ideas on how the students can empower the entire world population. He has already taken seven hours of lectures at IIT-H and will visit the campus again in March for some more lectures.

In one of its radical approaches to offer value-added education to its students, IIT Hyderabad had earlier offered a short course on cloud computing, which was conducted by Adobe. Two courses lined up for this year include one on Finance, and another one on Sales and Marketing.

IIT Hyderabad is also the first IIT to launch a new innovative course called B.Tech in Engineering Science. The students of the programme will study broad-based courses for two and half years and can specialise in engineering streams like EEE, Civil, Mechanical or Computer Science or non-engineering streams like Psychology and Economics over next one and a half years. Know more about the programme

Recently, government had decreed that the students of the new IITs will only get provisional certificates and not the degrees, until they are incorporated under the Institutes of Technology Act 1961. The Bill has been passed in Lok Sabha but is still pending in Rajya Sabha. However, students of IIT Hyderabad have faced no problems due to it. All the 30 students of the first batch of M.Tech have already been well-placed.

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