MCA Scope

Career & Jobs:
Lots of job opportunities are available in the field of MCA. Candidates having an MCA degree may have great employment opportunities in top IT companies and top consultancy firms. At present, with the advancement of IT & Communication systems, people with good computer application skills are highly demanded in IT sector. MCA qualified students can find jobs easily in the government and private sector. Numerous jobs are available in both the sectors. Candidates can get profiles as per their skills and calibre. If you pursue the course from a well-recognised university, you will get the better jobs and career opportunities in this field. You can work in various areas such as banking, networking, IT companies, desktop publishing, etc. During the initial time of joining, candidates are provided with a few months of training. Thereafter, they can work on live projects. MCA candidates can start their career as the entry level trainee programmer. At the beginning, they have to work in different roles and areas. Responsibilities of an IT professional is to develop, test and maintain software/applications. Candidates with MCA degree can also choose their profession in the teaching field. They can also work as a lecturer in reputed colleges/Universities. Top BCA colleges in India are mentioned at the link provided below:
This ranking is based on college rankings published by India Today.
https://www.shiksha.com/it-software/ranking/top-bca-colleges-in-india/96-2-0-0-0
The scope of BCA:
There is a huge scope in the field of BCA. Self-employment option is also available. You can do freelancing or develop your own software if you have that much skills. There are many software MNCs (Multi-National Companies) which provide job to the BCA graduates. If a candidate has a work experience and all the necessary required skills then he/she can hold good positions in MNCs.
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As it is your life and your career, you would be in a better position to understand what to do and what not, because I won't be knowing what are your motives. Still, as per my way, try assessing yourself and your skills-what do you need to make a career in game development. GameDev consists of various fields- computer animation, character modelling, skinning and rigging, motion capture, texture generation (Substance Designer domain), game engines, scripting, backed stuff in game development, 3D architecture Modelling and a lot of other fields. It would be better if you acquire the knowledge of various softwares, not extensively, but enough to make you not start from scratch, like Blender, Autodesk range of products, Substance Designer and many things. And do at least one certification course of game development, I recommend checking the Game Design and Development certification on Coursera by Michigan State University. Then create some projects, apply for an internship, and you will have no problem going into GameDev job.

Future of MCA in Data Analytics:
1) According to Harvard Business Review, the Data Scientist is the Attractive Job of the 21st Century.
2) NASSCOM has estimated that from 50,000 today, the demand for Analytics professionals in India will grow to 2, 50,000.
3) Analytics is the next big thing that is already starting to transform businesses and their ability to compete by helping them make smarter decisions. Analytics is the new career of
choice for those who want to stay ahead. It is among the most well-paid careers (it is also among the well-paid first-jobs). Companies are now beginning to create an extremely
important new position called the Chief Analytics Officer. Analytics is one of the best career options today and those who invest in it will be on the fast track to success.

The placements for NIT-MCA are one of the best in the country. Students have bagged offers as high as 60 LPA and the placement percentage usually remains between 90% to 100%. However, this does not mean that you will get an offer in 7 digits salary. Placement packages vary from company to company.
Simply speaking, if you have studied at least what was taught in the class, have cgpa good enough to satisfy the Eligibility criteria of the companies, you have fair chances of getting a good enough job offer.
The MCA course at IIT Roorkee has sadly been discontinued since last year. Last few batches of MCA are going to pass out in the next couple of years. Still I am going to answer the question assuming a hypothetical situation where in the course may get restarted next year.
The placements are a mixed bag. Most companies do not know about the MCA course and hence do not open it. It is up to the placement representative of the MCA batch to educate the Central Placement Team guys about MCA and get as many companies to be opened as possible. You do get to sit for some of the top companies like MS, Amazon, Directi, Inmobi Symantec, Nvidia. I believe even Google opened up this year. So if you have worked hard, you can make something out of it.
I think this completes your question. Please let me know if you want to know anything else.
All the best.

Hello,
A very interesting query has been posted. It requires solution in all dimensions. Firstly, and most importantly M.Tech and MCA are considered as almost same by many in the industry. But, this is far from truth. Though of course, both are post graduate courses. Pursuing M.Tech is possible only if one has completed B.Tech or BE in relevant field. Only after this, admission is feasible. Then, there is GATE that one needs to clear before admission could be thought of.On the other hand, pursuing MCA is possible based on marks obtained in BCA at graduation level. Having said this, it is observed that many subjects are common between these two streams and students who are pass out are having good domain knowledge about softwares. To conclude, I would say that there is no need to do M Tech after having done MCA.