BCA Scope

BCA is a 3 years undergraduate level Bachelor's degree program. The course structure is quite similar to the traditional B.Sc program. The 3 years duration is divided into 6 semesters, each lasting a period of 6 months. During each semester, students have to face different sets of written exams as well as practical and lab sessions.
In simple terms, BCA program has lots to do with computer science and programming. Students are given knowledge on topics like:
1. Programming languages.
2. Hardware and software.
3. Computer networks.
4. World Wide Web.
5. Database management.
6. Logic.
7. Multimedia, etc.
For graduates, job opportunities exists in government as well as private sector. Also, self-employment options are available. After BCA, graduates can take government jobs that require a graduation degree.
When it comes to private sector, software MNCs are the prime recruiters. Web hosting, IT sector and electronics industry are some other sectors that recruits BCA graduates.
Graduates can take the following posts in the above mentioned sectors:
1. Software engineer.
2. Software tester.
3. Database management professional.
4. Project manager.
5. Information security professional.
6. Information management professional.
7. System administrator.
8. System security officer.
9. Software architect.
10. Associate software engineer.
11. Project manager.

Indian IT industry is showing an early sign of decline because of outcry against outsourcing in the Western countries and newly proposed changes in the USA visa policy. Even then IT and ITES Industries are the largest employment generation industry in India. B.Tech in CSE graduation degree is the de-facto most commonly accepted degrees. MCA graduates are also well accepted in IT industry. Most of the MCA graduates are employed in the application development and maintenance engineers roles in MNCs and large IT companies. BCA graduates are employed by small and medium size IT companies and IT departments of business enterprises. BCA graduates are employed in testing and apps support roles only not on development roles. BCA graduates, after 3 to 4 years experience and industry relevant skills get employed in MNCs and large IT companies. Nowadays, most of the recruitment at lower level in IT industry is by campus placement only. Therefore, if you are planning to do BCA MCA, it must be done only from university and colleges with good campus placement records. If you are unable to a get a job in campus placement then you may join companies such as Alchemy which produce ready to deploy resources for IT industry.