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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: CMR University (CMRU) of Bangalore, India, is collaborating with IBM to offer undergraduate and graduate level program curricula focused on Cloud Computing, Business Analytics and IT Applications in Finance / Management, to provide students with the needed skills for jobs in these fields.
IBM's collaboration with CMR University aims to reduce this technical skills gap of students. As part of IBM's Innovation Centre for Education Program, IBM will provide CMR University the design and delivery of innovative curricula integrated with a Learning Management System from IBM's Business Partner. Degrees will be awarded by the University.
The agreement includes curriculum consultancy with IBM and co-development of Courseware (on current technologies like Cloud / Business Analytics / Mainframe / Infrastructure / Open Source / Telecom and IT Applications in Management).
The students will be able to access online course material, discussion forums and other online collaborative functionality's including their project work. IBM will also provide Train-the-Teacher workshops to the faculty, along with webinars and seminars by connecting industry subject matter experts.
IBM will help present real-world application scenarios as project definitions, which describe a typical large application problem in a domain (such as BFSI, Retail or Healthcare). The assets include data schematics which describe the underlying data structures and the module description which are completed in teams of 3 - 4 students for each project.
The overall categories covered in the program include Management, Finance and Information Technology and will become available during the Academic Year 2014-15, commencing July /August 2014.
IBM will provide CMRU with curricula materials, case study projects as well as IBM experts as guest lecturers. This partnership will impact nearly 4,000 students every year (from the fourth year onwards)
Students can also choose to minor or specialize in the following areas like Business Analytics and Optimization, Cloud Computing and Vitualization, Enterprise Computing (Mainframe Technology), IT Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Systems Management (ISM) and Project Management, Enterprise Mobility and Social Technologies, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) / Financial Technology (BFSI+IT), Open Source Computing, Telecom Informatics, Healthcare Informatics and Retail Informatics.