MCA Admission in India

Computer Science Education in India

MCA Education in India

Today, computers have dominated the whole world. An MCA degree in an age of computers will have excellent job opportunities in IT companies with an attractive salary package. Master of Computer Application (MCA) is a post graduate program in ‘Computer Application Stream ‘in India. Its curriculum emphasizes on the development of different types of application software rather than designing computer hardware and systems software. It covers a large variety of topics primarily in computer programming and designing fields.

Generally it takes three academic years to pursue a full time MCA program. Those who want to pursue a career in software, MCA course is a good option for them. Today there are more than 1000 institutions in India that provides MCA courses with an intake of more than 55000 students annually.

The colleges or institutes that offer MCA courses require a bachelor degree in any stream with Mathematics as a subject at plus two levels. But there are institutes which require graduates particularly from any field of computer science like Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA). In some other institutes admission to such courses is through written tests with its selection based entirely on group discussion or an interview. A number of NITs offer these course for the benefit of the students i.e., NIT (Allahabad, Durgapur, Surathkal, Calicut, Bhopal etc). In order to avail such opportunity one need to take an entrance test. NIMCET is the national level entrance test for admission to MCA. AIMCET is an all India MCA common Entrance test, organized by IIT (Roorkee) intends to admit on an all India basis.

The entrance tests are generally based on Mathematics and reasoning, purely objective in nature. The duration of the test is 2-3hours.There is negative marking for wrong answer too. As the syllabi for the entrance test differs between institutes, it becomes difficult to have an integrated approach for its preparation. However the candidate needs to be good at Mathematics, Statistics and knowledge of computer would be an added advantage.
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