BCA

You should have minimum 50% in class 12th (any stream) to do BCA. Some colleges prefer students who have studied Mathematics till class 12th, whereas there are some colleges which give admission to those who had opted Arts or Commerce. Best Universities for doing BCA are: Delhi University, Delhi, Lovely Professional University- Punjab, VIT University Tamilnadu, Jamia Millia Islamia University Delhi, NMIMS Mumbai, Anna University Tamil Nadu, University of Mumbai, University of Kolkata, Pune University, University of Hyderabad, Delhi University, AMU, The Maharaj Sayaji Rao University, JNU Delhi. You can attain positions as Developers, Design Engineers, Data Base Administrator, Network Administrator, Data Analyst in IT industry and facilitate their placement in government, semi-government and leading companies like Cognizant, Accenture, HCL, Wipro Technologies, TCS, LG Soft, Tech Mahindra and Infosys. You can start your career in Teaching.

There is no difference between regular BCA and lateral entry BCA if the course is done from a recognised university or institute. Lateral entry BCA graduates can get jobs which a regular BCA graduate get. Indian IT industry does not prefer BCA for entry level developer and testers role. BCA graduates may get a junior developer or application support jobs. Syllabus of BCA includes courses on computer languages, data structure, databases and networking, etc. BCA degree course programme is primarily focused on in the field of computer applications. BCA degree can only help you to get only entry-level jobs and will require the acquisition of PG degrees such as MCA for a meaningful career.

3 year degree programme that helps one build the fundamentals of the computer application with detailed knowledge of computer language programming and application. It comprises of the subjects like database, networking, data structure, core programming languages like C and Java. This course provides a lot of opportunities to the students who are interested in computer field and wants to work in the IT sector as programmer or software developer. In the terms of the growth prospects of a candidate after BCA the best step is to look out for various job opportunities, but considering that the degree is through distance mode the platform available would be limited to the small scale industries.