What makes IIM Calcutta’s Advanced Programme in Data Sciences stand apart?

IIM Calcutta ranks amongst the top management schools in India and is renowned for many prestigious courses it offers. One of them is it's Advanced Programme in Data Sciences that focuses on the fundamentals of business analysis, machine learning, data processing, and communication. It is a one-year programme where its participants work across various domains and sectors in Fortune 500 companies. This programme is crafted in such a way that the data scientists get trained with unique management and business insight. 

A hands-on classroom learning experience

Advanced Programme in Data Sciences is ready to provide a hands-on classroom learning experience, unlike the online, virtual programmes. A brilliant faculty with great industry experience is all set to teach the master toolset which is inclusive of Risk, SPSS, Tableau, Arena, Hadoop, Oracle SQL, and many others. This programme launched by IIM Calcutta takes care of all the latest trends in Data Science and novel technologies in the IT industry.

What sets the Advanced Programme in Data Sciences apart from all other courses is its ingenuity to offer a real classroom experience. With VCNow, its Program Partner, IIM Calcutta will deliver extensively live interactive, face-to-face instructor-led sessions. There will be a two-way video conference in high display quality that will be a virtual replica of the classroom sessions. Participants from as many as 30 cities will be able to avail the ‘direct-to-desktop’ option. 

Rigorous curriculum

The Founding Director of VCNow, Darayus Mehta said that the platform, technology and infrastructure of VCNow are such that it successfully enables institutes like IIM Calcutta to leverage their infrastructure in order to offer executive education that is highly interactive across 30 cities in India, along with the option if ‘Direct-to-Device’ mode.

Advanced Programme in Data Sciences will also give participants access to advanced subjects like Categorical Data and Econometric Methods. The virtual classroom setup will help not only in the transfer of valuable knowledge but also in a refined peer-to-peer interaction. The programme offers the exact expertise and skill-set that is required to establish a career in Data Sciences. With an amalgamation of real-life case studies, lecture, live corporate examples, peer collaboration and analytical software, the programme is bound to offer a rigorous curriculum.

Other components of the programme include three campus visits in a year that will assist the participants to hone their experiences and have a face-to-face interaction with the faculty and other participants. This programme shall endow the participants with the ‘IIM Calcutta Alumni Status’, providing them with a greater competitive benefit and a better career prospect.

Other features

The contact hours for the executive programme will be of 215 hours, with the live classes being conducted twice a week (Sunday – 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM; Wednesday –6:30 PM to 9:30 PM). The fees for this one-year programme is INR 3,60,000 besides the campus fees of INR 80,000 (inclusive of GST) which can be paid every quarter in equal installments.

The eligible candidates for the Advanced Programme in Data Sciences are those working professionals who have work experience of a minimum of three years and are well-versed with data analytical tools and quantitative methods. 

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