JNTU Anantapur, is all set to start a new Masters programme in Information Technology starting next year in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon University located at Pittsburgh in the United States.

Speaking to ‘The Hindu’, the Vice-Chancellor of JNTU-A, Prof. K. Lal Kishore said that the new Masters programme, which has been an integral part of the academics of JNTU at Kukatpally in Hyderabad since the last 10 years, would be a two-year full time programme based completely out of JNTU-A.

Professor Raj Reddy, a senior professor at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), was at the JNTU-A on Monday to discuss the proposal to start the Masters programme from the next academic year besides the intricacies of the programme.

A meeting of the administration along with Mr. Raj Reddy was held at the university going into various details of the programme.

Mr. Lal Kishore, explaining the course structure to ‘The Hindu’ said that the university was aiming to take in close to 50 students as a start. Any student with an engineering degree would be eligible for the course.

However, all such interested engineering graduates would have to pass an entrance test following which they would be put into a preparatory programme followed by an exam. Those students who clear the exam with a minimum of 80 per cent marks would be the ones eventually eligible for the new Masters programme.

Going further, Mr. Lal Kishore explained that the students of this course would be expected to devote a lot of time to their studies as the completion of each subject would mean successfully completing close to fifteen or more modules, for all of which an online test would be held by the CMU.

“Special and dedicated infrastructure would be provided to the students of this programme. Students would also be helped with financial assistance through various banks,” said JNTU-A V-C K. Lal Kishore.

Meanwhile, a special recruitment drive is also scheduled to be held aiming at the successful running of the programme in which existing professors might be trained to teach the students of the programme besides recruit those who had earlier completed a similar programme from CMU.

Earlier, Prof. Raj Reddy was felicitated by the JNTU-A V-C Prof. K. Lal Kishore at the university campus.

‘Students will be helped with financial assistance through various banks’

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by  Staff Reporter / January 01st, 2013