These 7 Indian engineering colleges have integrated AWS cloud computing into their courses

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping seven Indian engineering colleges to integrate cloud computing into their mainstream curriculum.
• The augmented syllabus will be available starting next semester.
• NASSCOM believes that this will help bridge the skill gap in the industry and make students more employable.

Students will now be able to learn cloud computing as a default skill as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate gets integrated into the mainstream college syllabus of seven higher education institutions in India.

These aren’t add-ons or options but will be integrated into the existing curriculum, the heads of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Sharda University and Chitkara University told Business Insider.

The education institutions offering the newly-designed Bachelor of Technology degree programs in Information Technology (IT) and Computer Science are:

1. Chitkara University, Punjab
2. Galgotias University, Uttar Pradesh
3. Manav Rachna University, Delhi and NCR; Noida
4. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Uttar Pradesh;
5. Sharda University, Delhi and NCR; and
6. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu.
7. The ASM Group of Institutes in Maharashtra will offer syllabus combined with the AWS Educate cloud curricula for its Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Emerging Technology.

According to the pro-chancellor of Chitakara University, Madhu Chitakara, this will help students improve employability and secure higher pay packages.

“One of the things that we were struggling with as an industry was that most people were finishing college and then they were enrolling in programs to actually pick up the skills up that were relevant for us,” said Amit Agarwal, the VP and CEO of IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council at the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).

“In the future, everyone will have to be cloud literate,” said Sandeep Pachpande, the chairman of ASM Group of Institutes. “Even business students should be aware of how to use the cloud and the nuances of cloud as such,” he added.

LinkedIn has ranked cloud computing as the top skill in demand since 2014 and Cisco estimates that 94% of workloads will be processed on the cloud by 2021. “The overall need for having cloud is going to get compounded,” said Rahul Sharma.

NASSCOM estimates that 64% of organisations in India are expected to increase the demand for cloud computing over the next year. “We expect increased spending on remote work and on work from home arrangement to continue at least through to the next year, and in many companies on a permanent basis,” said Agarwal.

The technology lobby will facilitate industry participation to ensure that job opportunities are on the table.

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