The Hindu Business Line : NIIT designs course for engg graduates

TO MAKE THEM JOB-READY: Mr G. Raghavan, President, NIIT's Learning Business, and Mr Viswanathan Anand, NIIT Brand Ambassador, at the launch of a new programme of NIIT in Chennai on Wednesday. - Bijoy Ghosh

Chennai , Dec. 20

To improve the employability skills of fresh engineering graduates, information technology training company NIIT has launched a five-semester long course called `Integrated ANIIT for Engineers,' (IAE).

This will target engineering students (mostly from non-IT streams) in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad pursuing the second and third semester of study.

IAE is an evolution of the company's existing four-month IT training programme for fresh engineering graduates, said Mr G. Raghavan, President, Learning Business — NIIT Ltd. "We saw huge demand for this programme and decided to integrate it with mainstream engineering curricula to provide a rounded learning for students," he said.

The IAE course is positioned as an additional degree programme that will make students `first-day-job-ready'. Besides guaranteed employment, students graduating from the IAE course will also be capable of passing global certificate programmes such as those of Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, said Mr Raghavan.

Priced at about Rs 56,000, IAE will focus on three broad areas - core programming logic and problem structuring, disciplinary subjects (like Java, .NET and other software) and communication skills besides an industry-oriented project. The 600-hour course will be spread across classroom and computer-based training conducted at NIIT centres.