The flexibility that BS Data Science program offers where the students can choose their pace of learning based on their academic background and time availability with contents being available for students to study anytime has seen students such as Renee Noronha and Aradhana Anand balance their alternate interest with academics, compromising neither.
Renee Noronha, who is 18 years old, is India’s Youngest Female ‘Ironman’ Athlete who completed Ironman in New Zealand in record time of 16 hours, training for this every single day for a couple of hours and is set to enter the Diploma level in May 2024. Aradhana Anand, 21 years old, is a professional Harikatha exponent who continuously hops across cities and countries for her performances.
Examinations are conducted in more than 150 cities across India and abroad and by online remote proctoring for students in countries where centers are not available. Students can choose a different city for every single exam depending on where they are at that point in time. This has enabled her to keep up with the academics and she will be entering the Degree level this year in the program.
Students have secured admission for Masters and PhD programs based on this as their primary degree or showcased this along with their campus degree. While Shreya Singhal received acceptance offers from four renowned institutions – Harvard, CMU, UPenn, WPI, and Columbia University – for her Master’s degree, each accompanied by scholarships, Viroopaksh who is a BTech graduate from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Madras, 2023, has gotten admits into Masters in Computer Science in UChicago and UC San Diego, primarily based on courses done in this program.
The awards for the academic excellence at the Diploma level for the year 2023 were recently announced and the standout factor was the diversity of students.
This includes students pursuing this as their primary degree such as Shubham Gattani, professionals from various walks of life such as Kaushik V and Nagarajan M, CA professionals, Cardiologist Dr. Ganesh P, homemaker from Abhu Dhabi, Soumya N and a school teacher Shilpa Paul, Start-up entrepreneur such as Neeraj Kumar. Others include students pursuing two degrees such as Saranath P and Viroopaksh Chekuri who are engineering graduates while Sherry Thomas’ primary degree is BA in Philosophy.
Students have secured admission for Masters and PhD programs based on this as their primary degree or showcased this along with their campus degree. While Shreya Singhal received acceptance offers from four renowned institutions – Harvard, CMU, UPenn, WPI, and Columbia University – for her Master’s degree, each accompanied by scholarships, Viroopaksh who is a B Tech graduate from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering IIT Madras, 2023, has gotten admits into Masters in Computer Science in UChicago and UC San Diego, primarily based on courses done in this program. The BS degree is the primary sole degree for Pranav Balakrishnan from Kerala who has secured admissions in 4 US universities for Masters in Computer Science.
Mr.Shubham Gattani from Ahmedabad and Prashant S from Chennai, brilliant students who cannot attend physical colleges in person due to their medical disabilities, now have access to the best quality education from the comfort of their home and are excelling in the program, even having secured internships.