TCS to offer ‘Big Data’ courses in four colleges

These four institutions are Swami Vivekananda University (West Bengal), St Xavier’s College of Arts and Science (Ahmedabad), Central University of Rajasthan (Rajasthan) and St Joseph’s College (Bengaluru).

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with four colleges across India to offer courses on ‘Big Data’.

These four institutions are Swami Vivekananda University (West Bengal), St Xavier’s College of Arts and Science (Ahmedabad), Central University of Rajasthan (Rajasthan) and St Joseph’s College (Bengaluru). The IT Company will offer MSc programme specialising in Big Data from July onwards.

The objective is to strengthen the pool of workforce in the digital technology space in India.

TCS has already trained 1.2 lakh employees in this area in less than a year’s time.

This 2-Yr long course which will comprise of four semesters – 3 semesters + 1 semester of internship) will be open to graduates in courses such as statistics, economics, mathematics and econometrics. There would be about 30 students in the course from each college.

In the next step, TCS also plans to partner with universities and engineering colleges for adding an M-Tech course on big data.