Academics

Q1) What is the advantage that IIITM has over other engineering and management institutes?

A) Management and Engineering studies require a lot of practical and industrial exposure. IIITM provides its students a blend of management and information technology. With live projects, students have an opportunity to learn the practical aspects of theory during the course itself. Students also have the advantage of interacting with peers belonging to diverse fields. Flexibility of the course structure adds up to the advantages of the institute.

Q2) What is the teaching methodology at IIITM, Gwalior?

A) The institute provides an excellent academic environment with accent on self-learning. Curriculum delivery is effected through group and self learning, seminars, conferences, case methods, live projects with industry, guest lectures and panel discussions with CEO's and professionals from the industry. The system of assessment is based on continuous evaluation through tests, surprise quizzes, home assignments, laboratory work, industry projects, presentations etc.

Q3) What is different about the IIITM curriculum?

A) Some of the unique characteristics of IIITM are:

• Summer internship of 12 Weeks to have an extended interface with the industry.
• NGO training for IPG (5 yr. Integrated PG) students after 4th Semester itself.
• Emphasis on peer-to-peer learning and zeal to learn.
• Usage of Information Technology to attain maximum advantages in business processes.

Q4) Are there any financial aids available for the course?

A) The students receive full help in this regard. Some of the institutions that have come forward with loan facilities are Bank of India, State bank of India, Allahbad bank, Andhra bank etc.

Apart from loans, various scholarships are also available. Andhra Pradesh students are eligible for Pratibha Scholarships. The students pursuing IPG MTech or MTech get AICTE stipend if they clear the GATE examinations. The SC/ST candidates have their tuition fees exempted.

Q5) What is the criterion of MBA/MTech specialization in the Integrated Post Graduation Course?

A) Presently the Institute has no set rules in this regard. Students are free to choose MBA or MTech for post graduation according to their own will. This choice is made after the 3rd year. The Institute, however, may set down some criterion if the number of students to either of the course falls below expectations.

Q6) How is the evaluation done in IIITM?

A) IIITM follows the 10 point scale relative grading system. In each subject the students are given grades. The value of each of the grades are A: 10, A-ve: 9, B: 8, B-ve: 7, C: 6, C-ve: 5, D: 4, E: 0, F: Fail, I: Incomplete. The student getting F or I has to reappear in the examinations. Any student may opt to give an improvement in any of the examination, if he wishes. Grading is done based on continuous assessment consisting of minor examinations, major examination, assignments, quizzes, attendance etc.

Q7) What are SGPA and CGPA and how are they calculated?

A) SGPA stands for Semester Grade Point Average. It is the average performance on a 10 point scale system in one semester. Every subject a student opts in a semester has a credit assigned to it.

Semester grade-point averages are calculated as follows:

• Step A. Multiply the course credit by the grade value to obtain total points for each course.
• Step B. Add the total points for all courses.
• Step C. Add the total credit for all courses attempted
• Step D. Divide the total points earned by the total credit; i.e., Step B is divided by Step C

CGPA is the cumulative grade point average. This can be calculated similar to the SGPA by considering all the courses a student has completed from the time of admission.

Q8) What are credits?

A) Every course opted by a student, whether theory or practical, is weighted by means of credits. A high credit means a larger weight age and vice versa. These weights are used to calculate SGPA and CGPA.

Q9) Can I leave the Integrated Post Graduate Course after 4 years with a BTech degree?

A) No. The students can only get a dual degree at the end of the completion of the entire course.

Q10) What specialization would be offered in post graduation in the Integrated Post Graduation Course?

A) There is no separate specialization offered for the IPG post graduation. The specialization is considered in Information Technology (IT), for both MBA and MTech. The electives and the dissertation however are on the basis of interest of the students that specialize them to some domain.

Q11) What CGPA is expected out of the students?

A) The CGPA that the students get entirely depends on their capability and performance. In general it is expected that the CGPA be always above 7 to 7.5 so that you don’t have problems in the academic ground.

Q12) Is there any chance of going abroad from the institute?

A) All the major recruiters of the Institute are multinational corporate and many send the candidates abroad after 2-3 years of service. Besides, many students get internships abroad. These include the countries of Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Greece, Hong Kong, Oman, Kuwait, Spain, etc. Many students from the Institute have also attended International conferences outside. The institute also has student exchange programmes with USA, France and Japan

Q13) What about studying abroad after IIITM?

A) Many students have done MS or PhD from reputed foreign universities in the past. Many more join foreign universities as Research Associates.

Q14) Is there any scope of venture in IIITM?

A) Students of the previous batches have opened various companies. Some of the companies started by our students are CEON Solutions, 5ISYS etc. Besides the Institute also has an Incubation center.

Q15) Apart from the academics, is there any scope for extra learning?

A) The students of the Institute have always explored new areas that are not covered in class. Students actively study Programming Languages (JAVA, J2EE, DOT NET, PHP, etc.), Algorithms, MATLAB, Designing, Hacking, Linux and other such topics. Students also participate in a variety of software design competitions, programming competitions, paper presentation competitions etc throughout the country. Students have won in many of these. A lot of emphasis is given to research.

Q16) What are the class timings at IIITM?

A) The class timings depend upon the batch and the schedule of the students and the faculty. The classes are conducted between 9 AM to 5 PM which include both theories as well as lab sessions. Saturdays and Sundays are off. There is always a scope of extra classes and the lectures by visiting faculties.

Q17) What is the concept of visiting faculty? Does IIITM have visiting faculties?

A) It is usually not possible to get the best people of every domain right in the Institute. For the same many courses are conducted by faculty from external organizations and cities. They usually come on Saturdays and Sundays to take classes much longer than usual. With a rich and diverse faculty, the requirement of visiting faculties is relatively less, but still we have visiting faculties in a number of courses.

Q18) What is an elective?

A) Many time students are free to choose any subject according to their own choice from a list of subjects. These are called electives. These help the students specialize in a particular domain as well as to study subjects of their choice.

Q19) How are electives opted?

A) The possibility of electives at various semesters is mentioned at the course curriculum. A list is provided to the students containing the various electives being offered at the time of registration. The student selects the desired electives at the time of registration.

Q20) What are FDPs and how does IIITM contribute towards the same?

A) The FDPs or the Faculty Development Programmes are the special programmes that the Instate organizes from time to time for the development of the faculties of other institutes. IIITM takes this as its social responsibility. In the past numerous such programmes have been organized whose information is available at the website.

Q21) How is the value addition done to courses taught at IIITM?

A) The Institute from time to time organizes special lectures from professors of foreign universities. This gives the students a lot of exposure. In the previous year such lectures were conducted by Prof N Cho, Global Business School, Hanyang University, Korea; Dr Max Migliorato, University of Manchester, UK; Prof V R Potnis, Michigan Tech University, USA and Prof Ashok Kochhar, Aston University, UK

Q22) And about the industrial Inputs?

A) IIITM brings the CEOs and leading people from the industry for interacting with the students. This further helps the students in numerous ways. In the previous year such sessions were conducted by Mr. Godbole, ex-chairman IDBI; Mr. Suhas Boker, CFTV; Mr. Vikas Sharma, CEO, Sunworks Consultants; etc.

Q23) And any other inputs?

A) Yes. A student requires even more inputs for proper nourishing. These inputs are provided by the alumni. The students are even encouraged to participate in workshops, conferences and symposia organized by various organizations and institutes

Q24) How and where do all these inputs reflect?

A) The hard work put in by the students reflects in numerous forms apart from the courses of study and grades. Students here win software competitions, business plan competitions, publish research papers at various international journals and conferences. Also these boost up the internal confidence of the students for placement and other activities.

Q25) Besides student initiatives, how does the Institute assure the students have good personalities?

A) The Institute organizes special sessions by professionals from various organizations for personality development. Apart from these a lot of emphasis is given on presentations by students in form of project demonstration, case study presentations, etc. All these assure that each and every student gets a platform to showcase him as well as improve his skills.