Dual Degree (B.Tech Comp. Science + M.Tech CSE)

In the proposed program, the students will be admitted through JEE, and are expected to take 5 years to complete. both the degrees or B.Tech, for those students who do not meet the academic requirements for the award of M.Tech. degree, to be awarded at the end of 5 years or whenever the requirements have been completed thereafter. The need for this program has been felt in recent years with declining strength of PG programs. With the boom in economy, the salaries for engineers, particularly in the area of computer science, have skyrocketed, and are many times the MTech stipend. Furthermore, the huge demand in software industry for software engineers have started hiring most of the graduates from institutions that traditionally provided inputs for MTech program. The situation implies that it is unlikely that we will be able to attract good students in required numbers to our MTech or PhD programs. For similar reasons, it is also very unlikely that we can attract reasonable quality graduates to work for us as research engineers. The fallout of this is that in Computer Science, with the current setup, we will have little research manpower. The proposed program has been designed to make it attractive for a good student to do an MTech, and thus contribute to the research efforts of the department. The student benefits by getting an MTech degree with just one year of extra effort, thereby saving at least six months. The popularity of similar programs can be judged by the fact that SGVU has steadily increased its intake in five-year dual degree program. Good quality MTech students are also expected to give a boost to undergraduate education, since they can help undergraduates in labs, and interact with them as teaching assistants.