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Bodies or integrated with Industry relevant curriculum or led by Globally recognized

legendary professionals. Over and above that student undergo compulsory value-added

courses to meet the Industry Demands. The Professional Bodies and industries provide
Professional Skill Development programs regularly to the faculty and the students. They also

offer research projects or internships or employment opportunities.

These initiatives cover the programs in the fields like management accounting, economics,

cost accounting, procurement and supply, analytics, securities and investment, branding,
leadership and management, hospitality, digital marketing, insurance, aviation management,

human resource management, additive manufacturing, advanced programming, computer

science and engineering, cyber security, forensic science, big data, machine learning,
artificial intelligence, electric mobility, innovation and entrepreneurship, food technology,

design and many others had been enhancing the relevance, quality and the industry
preparedness of the students, which are the key needs in the higher education.

“Industry in campus” set ups such as the applied learning centre/laboratories set up by

Toyota (for mechatronics) and that by Texas instruments for embedded systems, IoT, and
cellular communication technology; labs by Cisco, CompTIA, Oracle and Redhat in the field of

Information Sciences are another mode of industry interface. Seeking engagement of highly

accomplished and globally recognized legendary professionals in the field is another facet of
the strategy exemplified in the programmes relevant to Music and brand management.

The uniqueness of the approach is the holistic combination of skilling, bench marking and

curricular co-creative roles through this interface.

Evidence of Success

1. Students have positively responded our programmes and courses which is exemplified
by 62% growth in overall admissions in past five years and demand ratio going up

from 4.87 to 5.42

2. The second evidence of success is that a set of most coveted professional bodies have
either accredited the curriculum or granted exemptions to maximum number of papers

or facilitate membership. A detailed listing of programmes and these bodies is
provided under Notes (optional space)

3. In the process of curriculum design and development, expertise is utilized from the

individual professional bodies / industries that provided inputs to align the curriculum
to Global Industry Standards and Emerging Trends, thus enhancing the competencies,

employability, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurial skills of our students. The

interface also helped the University to start programmes in emerging areas of creative
arts and design and allied health sciences.

4. Institutionalisation of industry interface through Industry Advisory Board, which also

helped in having a MoU with ICT Academy A Govt Of Tamilnadu Undertaking to help
our students as well as faculty members to upskill in emerging trends in Sciences,

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