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M.Tech.
DATA SCIENCE
& ENGINEERING
Prepare for a career in Data Science with
the most comprehensive masters degree
M.Tech. Data Science and Engineering is
programme in Data Science & Engineering
a BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning
without taking a break from your career. Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated
M.Tech. Data Science and Engineering is Learning Programmes are UGC approved.
a four-semester programme designed to
help working professionals build WHO SHOULD
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The global Data Science Market is estimated to
The programme features live online grow at a CAGR of 30% to reach USD 140
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WHAT
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HIGHLIGHTS OF
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 M.Tech Data Science & Engineering is a for data visualization, Tensorflow for
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Integrated Learning Programmes are machine learning, data visualization.
UGC approved.
 In addition to live weekly online lectures,
supplementary online contact sessions
 The programme is of four semesters, with
comprising of tutorials, doubt-clearing
online classes conducted mostly on
weekends or after business hours. You sessions, and industry talks will also be
can pursue the programme without any conducted periodically.
career break.
 The Dissertation in the final semester
enables students to apply concepts and
 Contact-less and safe Online exams
techniques learnt during the programme.
facility.
 The programme uses a Continuous
 The curriculum covers areas that prepare Evaluation System that assesses the
you for the most lucrative careers in the learners over convenient and regular
space of Data Science, Data Engineering intervals. Such a system provides timely
and Advanced Analytics. It helps learners and frequent feedback and helps busy
master critical skills such as working professionals stay on course
Mathematical modeling, Machine with the programme.
learning, Artificial Intelligence, Product
development and scripting languages.  Option to submit fee using easy-EMI
with 0% interest. Enroll with only
 Benefit from Case Studies, Simulations, INR 7,428 in the first month.
Virtual Labs & Remote Labs that allow
learners to apply concepts to simulated
and real-world situations. Tools and
Technologies covered include Apache
Spark, Apache Storm for Big Data
Systems/ Real time Processing, Tableau

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WHAT ARE THE
PROGRAMME
OBJECTIVES?
The most lucrative jobs in the areas of Mathematical and Statistical modelling
Data Science, Data Engineering and using concepts such as linear algebra
Advanced Analytics go to professionals and probability to model and solve
physical problems.
who have mastered a combinations of
critical skills such as Mathematical Data structures and algorithms and
modeling, Machine learning, Artificial managing time and space-related
Intelligence, Product development and complexities.
Scripting languages.
Computer organisation, architecture and
The programme aims to help Operating systems and advanced
participants build a solid foundation in techniques for data processing.
these areas by developing skills in:
Data Mining aspects including pre-
processing, cleaning & classification, and
Data engineering & processing through
distributed computing and cloud
computing.

Advanced computing and analytical skills

in areas such as Machine Learning,
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and
Natural Learning Processing.

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WHAT
IS THE
EDUCATION
DELIVERY
METHODOLOGY?

ATTEND ONLINE LECTURES EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

OVER WEEKENDS The programme emphasises on Experiential
Lectures are conducted live via online Learning that allows learners to apply concepts
classes. These lectures can be attended via learnt in classroom in simulated and real work
the internet using a computer from any situations. This is achieved through:
location. These online classrooms offer similar
levels of interactivity as regular classrooms at Tools & Technologies: Apache Spark, Apache
the BITS Pilani campus. Storm for Big Data Systems/ Real time
Processing; Tableau for data visualisation;
Classes for students admitted during the Tensorflow for Deep Learning; Various
period Jan- Feb 2021 will begin in Mar 2021. Packages within Python for data processing,
The class schedule is announced within 1 machine learning, data visualization etc.
week of completion of the admission process.
Case Studies and Assignments: Carefully
The online lectures are conducted usually chosen real-world cases & assignments are
over weekends for a total of 7-8 hours per both discussed and used as problem-solving
week. If you miss a lecture, you can also exercises during the programme.
access the recorded lecture on the internet.
Lectures are conducted on Sat/Sun as per Dissertation: The fourth semester offers an
opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge
Indian Standard Time.
gained during the programme to a real-world like
complex project. The learner is expected to
demonstrate understanding of vital principles
learnt across semesters and their ability to
successfully apply these concepts.

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 CONTINUOUS
ASSESSMENT

Continuous Assessment includes graded

Assignments/ Quizzes, Mid-semester exam,
SUPPLEMENTARY
and Comprehensive Exam. Online Exams LEARNING
facility available.
In addition to live weekly online lectures,
supplementary live online sessions will be
organised periodically comprising of
tutorials, doubt-clearing interactions, and
industry talks (18-20 hours per semester).
EXAMINATION
CENTERS

Mid-Semester and Comprehensive

Exams are conducted at Bengaluru,
Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata,
Mumbai, Pilani, Pune, and Dubai.
Participants must appear in-person to
take these exams.

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ONLINE EXAMS
OPTION
● Online Examinations: Students choosing
Examinations Mode Options for
this option can take the examinations
M.Tech. Data Science & Engineering online from any location e.g. office or
Analytics applicable for students home. To take an online examination,
admitted in March 2021 student must possess a laptop or desktop
with a web cam, a smart phone and good
Every semester has Mid-semester internet connectivity. As per the
Examinations and Comprehensive examination schedule, the student is
Examinations. These examinations are mostly expected to login to the institution’s online
scheduled over weekends. In addition to the examination platform and take the
mid-semester and comprehensive examinations in compliance with
examinations, student will need to also institution’s defined guidelines and rules
participate in an online quiz or do an announced before the examinations. For
assignment and submit it online as per the full details about hardware, software and
course plan. connectivity requirements to take online
examination, click here.
Two Options on Mode of Examinations:

Institution offers a choice between taking the

examinations online or taking them at a
designated examination center. The student
will choose one of the option depending on his
or her own preference and circumstances.
Both options are explained below:

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● Examinations at Designated Examination
Centers: Students choosing this option will
need to appear in person for taking the
examinations at institution’s designated
examination centers. These designated
examination centers are at the following
locations: Bangalore, Chennai, Important: In case a student chooses to
Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Delhi take a break in the programme, the options
NCR, Pilani and Kolkata. In addition to on the mode of examination available will
these location, Institution also has a be as prevailing at the time the student
designated examination center at Dubai. resumes the programme.
Please note that offering of examinations at
designated examination centers is subject
to institution’s assessment of the safety
conditions as per prevailing pandemic
conditions and also subject to a required
minimum number of students preferring this
option. The institution may choose to not
offer this option, if as per its own
assessment the safety situation due to
pandemic conditions is not conducive to
conduct examinations at designated
examination centers or if as per its
assessment, adequate no of students have
not preferred for this option. In
circumstances as explained, Institute will
then conduct the examinations only in the
online mode.

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WHAT IS THE
ELIGIBILITY
CRITERIA?
Minimum eligibility to apply - Employed
professionals holding B.E. / B.Tech. / MCA /
M.Sc. or equivalent with at least 60%
aggregate marks or more in their qualifying
exam, and minimum one year relevant work
experience are eligible to apply.
Applicants should possess basic programming
knowledge and adequate background in
Mathematics. EMI OPTION
Instant EMI option is now available that allows you to
pay programme fee in an easy and convenient way.

FEE STRUCTURE • 0% interest

• Instant online approval in seconds
• No Credit Cards/ CIBIL score required
• Easy & Secure online process using Aadhaar and
Application Fees
(one time) :INR 1,500 PAN number
• Anyone with a Salary Account with Netbanking
can apply
Admission Fees
(one time) :INR 16,500 • Special interest rate for BITS Pilani WILP applicants
• Pay fee in interest-free installments of INR 13,770
Semester Fees p.m. for the First Semester
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SEMESTER-WISE
PATTERN
The programme features 12 courses between
Semester 1-3, and a Dissertation in Semester 4.
All the courses will be offered using live online mode.

First Semester
Data Mining
Mathematical Foundations for
Data Science
Data Structures and Algorithms Design Fourth Semester
Computer Organization and Systems
Dissertation
Software

Second Semester Electives

Introduction to Statistical Methods Deep Learning

Introduction to Data Science Natural Language Processing
Elective 1 Artificial and Compnational Intelligence
Elective 2 Real time-Analytics
Data Visualisation & Interpretation
Graphs - Algorithms & Mining
Third Semester
Optimization Methods for Analytics
Elective 3 Big Data Systems
Elective 4 Information Retrieval
Elective 5 Probabilistic Graphical Models
Elective 6 Data Warehousing
Systems for Data Analytics
Ethics for Data Science
Machine Learning
Distributed Data System
Stream Processing & Analytics

Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester. Students'
choice will be taken a s one of the factors while deciding on the Electives offered. However, Electives finally
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COURSE WISE SYLLABUS
Introduction to Data Science
Learn about: Topics
The need for data science, with emphasis Vector and matrix algebra, systems of
on data linear algebraic equations and their
Visualization and ethics aspects involved solutions; Eigenvalues, eigenvectors and
in data science and engineering processes diagonalization of matrices, Sets and
Various applications of data science relations; Graphs and digraphs
Trees, lists and their uses;
Topics Partially ordered sets and lattices

Introduction to data science - definition,

motivation; Data science process; Data Introduction to Statistical Methods
aspects - types Learn about:
(structured/unstructured/semi structured), Basic and some advanced concepts of
sources, formats (csv,tsv,txt etc.), probability and statistics
representation; Data pre-processing; Data
Concepts of statistics in solving problems
visualization; Data Science Applications; arising in data science
Ethics - privacy/legal aspects/rightful use
of data science, processes, data scientists
Topics
etc.
Different types of data; Data Visualization;
Data summarization methods; Tables,
Graphs, Charts, Histograms, Frequency
Mathematical Foundations for Data Science distributions, Relative frequency measures
Learn about: of central tendency and dispersion; Box
Plot; Chebychev’s Inequality on
Concepts in linear algebra and use it as a
relationship between the mean and the
platform to model physical problems
standard deviation of a probability
Analytical and numerical solutions of linear
distribution; Basic probability concepts,
equations
Conditional probability, Bayes Theorem,
Mathematical structures, concepts and Probability distributions, Continuous and
notations used in discrete mathematics
discrete distributions, Transformation of
random variables, Moments, Correlation
and Covariance, Parameter Estimation,
Hypothesis Testing

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Data Structures and Algorithms Design
Learn about:
Applications of basic and advanced data
structures & algorithms
How to determine the space and time
complexities of various algorithms
Identifying and choosing the relevant data
structures and algorithms for a given
problem and justifying the time and space
complexities involved

Topics

Stack, Queue, Hash Tables, Graphs, Bloom

Filters, Trees, Sets, Dictionary, Dynamic
Graphs; Divide-and-conquer, Dynamic
Programming, Graph Algorithms, Greedy
Algorithms - Spanning Tree, Amortized
Analysis, Huffman encoding; Page Rank,
Map Reduce (map, fork, join etc);
Complexity analysis
Systems for Data Analytics
Learn about:
The fundamentals of data engineering;
Computer Organization & System Software Basics of systems and techniques for data
Learn about: processing - comprising of relevant
database, cloud computing and distributed
Computer organization, architecture
computing concepts
aspects and operating system concepts
Advanced systems and techniques used Topics
for data processing
Fundamentals of data engineering - data
Topics engineering vs data science; Data
processing concepts - partitioning,
Introduction to computer organization,
replication, grouping and sorting, data
architecture; Introduction to operating
locality; Flynn's taxonomy; Task vs Data
systems; ISA - RISC etc. Processes and
Parallelism; Databases, parallel vs
Threads; Scheduling, Concurrency;
distributed databases, architecture -
Memory Management
performance; Distributed computing
architecture; Processing frameworks -
batch, map-reduce, stream processing,
parallel processing, real time processing;
Cloud fundamentals - virtualization,
batch-transactional-continuous workloads,
execution models and examples- AWS,
Azure etc.

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Data Mining
Learn about:
Various data pre-processing, cleaning
Association rule mining, classification,
clustering techniques

Topics
Topics
Introduction ( Data Mining definitions, Data
Mining activities, DM process, DM Introduction to Machine Learning
challenges); Understanding Data (Various Supervised Learning - Parametric Methods
Data Types/ Attribute Types, Basic Maximum Likelihood Estimation - Evaluate
the Estimators - Bias - Variance;
Statistical Descriptions of Data); Measuring
Parametric Classification, Parametric
Data Similarity and Dissimilarity; Data
Regression -Tuning Model Complexity and
Pre-processing - Overview; Association Regularization - Multivariate Methods;
Rule Mining - (Apriori Algorithm - FP
Clustering -Mixture Model -K-Means
Growth - generating association rules -
Clustering -Expectation- Maximization
efficiency concerns - evaluating patterns
Algorithm - Applications l; Non - Parametric
for interestingness - Applications;
Methods - Applications; Decision Trees -
Classification, Linear/Non Linear
Regression - Decision Trees, Naive Bayes; Linear Discrimination; Linear Discriminants,
Clustering Algorithms: Partitioning Basis Functions - Two Classes - Multiple
Methods, Density Based Approaches to Classes - Pairwise Separation - Gradient
classification, Hierarchical Clustering Descent Parameter Learning - Logistic
Discrimination; Multilayer Perceptrons;
Kernel Methods - SVM; Hidden Markov
Models
Machine Learning
Learn about:
Basic concepts and techniques of Machine Data Visualization
Learning.
Learn about:
Using recent machine learning software for
solving practical problems. Design principles, human perception and
How to do independent study and research effective story telling with data
in the field of Machine Learning Modern visualization tools and techniques

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Topics

Information overload and issues in decision

making; Design of visual encoding
schemes to improve comprehension of
data and their use in decision making;
Presentation and visualization of data for
effective communication; Elementary
graphics programming, charts, graphs,
animations, user interactivity, hierarchical
layouts, and techniques for visualization of
high dimensional data & discovered
patterns

Ethics for Data Science

Learn about:
Challenges of data privacy
Data policies for maintaining the privacy of
data
Data Privacy Topics

Basic concepts of graphs and digraphs

Topics
connectivity, reachability and vulnerability;
Introduction to data ethics, perils of big Trees, tournaments and matroids; Planarity
data, foundations of data privacy, Routing and matching problems;
challenges of privacy in the digital age, Representations; Various algorithms
data policies, consent and fair usage applications, Introduction to graph mining,
Graph Pattern Mining, Graph Classification,
Graph Compression, graph model, graph
dynamics, social network analysis,
Graphs - Algorithms and Mining visualization, summarization, graph
Learn about: clustering, link analysis, applications of
graph patterns
Concepts of graph theory so as to
understand
How graph theory concepts are used in
different contexts, ranging from puzzles Optimization Methods for Analytics
and games to social sciences/ engineering/
Learn about:
computer science
Model problems in real world using graphs Applying linear programming techniques to
Applying mining algorithms to get complex business problems across various
information from graph structures functional areas including finance,
economics, operations, marketing and
decision making
Implementing optimization techniques to
business and industrial problems

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Topics

Solving various problems related to

planning, production, transportation,
Microeconomics, etc. using LP models;
Decision making in the context of multi
stage LP models; Application of Goal
Programming (GP) and Analytic Hierarchy
Process (AHP) for decisions relating to
large teams and complex problems with
long term implications; Quadratic
Programming, convex Optimizations

Big Data Systems

Learn about:
Concepts related to big data and its
processing Advanced Topics in Data Processing
Applying the concepts of storage, retrieval, Learn about:
interfaces and processing frameworks to a
given problem and design solutions for the Advanced strategies for data processing
same by choosing the relevant ones The relationship between the scale of data
and the systems used to process it
Topics The importance of scalability of algorithms
as the size of datasets increase
What is big data - are existing systems
sufficient; Data Warehouse v/s Data Lakes; Topics
Hadoop - Components; Storage -
Relational DBs/ NoSQL dbs / HDFS / Distributed software architectures, runtime
HBase / Object Data stores - S3; and storage strategies; Consistency in
Serialization; Interfaces - Hive/ Pig; Stream Large Distributed Systems: Paxos
Processing; Spark; Mahout consensus, CAP theorem; Massive Parallel
Programming models; HPC, wsc (work
station clusters), mpp"; Algorithms for
Large Datasets: Time-accuracy trade-offs,
scalable algorithms; Case Study: Online
Social Networks (Distributed social network
data storage, Influence diffusion and
maximization, Rumor blocking, Information
source detection)

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Information Retrieval
Learn about:
Structure and organization of various
components of an IR system
Information representation models, term
scoring mechanisms, etc. in the complete
search system
Architecture of search engines, crawlers
and the web search Topics
Cross lingual retrieval and multimedia
information retrieval Common Architectural Principles of Deep
Networks; Building Blocks of Deep
Topics Networks; Convolutional Neural Networks
(CNNs); Recurrent Neural Networks;
Basic IR concepts; Vector Space model; Recursive Neural Networks; Building Deep
Text mining; Web search; Cross lingual Networks with ND4J; Applications to
retrieval; Multimedia IR; Recommender Sequence Data; Anomaly Detection;
systems Tuning Deep Networks; Vectorization;
Data Mining (Pre-requisites)

Deep Learning
Learn about: Natural Language Processing
Learn about deep learning techniques, Learn about:
constructing deep network structures Learn about natural language processing
specific to applications and tuning for techniques such Parts-of-Speech tagging,
parameters syntactic and semantic modelling of
languages

Topics

Language modelling with N-gram; Spelling

correction; Neural networks and neural
language models; Parts-of-Speech
tagging; Syntactic parsing; Language
semantics; Computational symantics

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Artificial Intelligence
Learn about:
Classic AI Techniques

Topics
Intelligent Agents; Search Techniques;
Adversarial Search; Logical Agents; Topics
CSP; Inference on FOL; Classical Planning; HMM; Markov Random Field; Bayesian
Knowledge Representation ( Logics; networks; Representation; Learning
Probabilistic); Exact and Approximate Inference; Dynamic Bayesian Networks and
Inference; Reasoning over time Temporal Bayesian networks applications
Introduction to Learning

Real time analytics

Data Warehousing – Elective
Learn about:
Learn about:
Processing frameworks for real time
analytics, and Analytics techniques for real Concepts needed to design, develop, and
time streaming data maintain a data warehouse
End user access tools like OLAP and
Topics reporting
Real Time Streaming Architecture; Service
Topics
Configuration and Coordination; Data Flow
Management, Storing and Processing Introduction to Data Warehousing;
Introduction to Dimensional Modelling;
Streaming Data; Visualization Techniques
Architectural Components of a Data
for Real Time Streaming Data; Aggregation
Warehouse; Extraction; Transformation &
(Timed Counting, Multi Resolution Time Loading; Advanced Dimensional Modelling;
Series Aggregation); Statistical Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) &
Approximation; Approximating with Multidimensional Databases (MDDB);
sketches Query Performance Enhancing Techniques;
Metadata, Support for Data Warehousing in
RDBMS/SQL; Real-time Data
Warehousing; Current Trends in Data
Probabilistic Graphical Models Warehousing
Learn about:
Representation, learning and reasoning
techniques for graphical models
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HOW
TO APPLY
 Create your login at the Application Center
by entering your unique Email id and
create a password of your choice.
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anytime access the online Application
Center using your email ID and password.
Once you have logged in, you will see a
screen showing 4 essential steps to be
completed to apply for the programme of
your choice.
 Begin by clicking on Step 1 - ‘Fill/ Edit and
Submit Application Form’. This will enable
you to select the programme of your
choice. After you have chosen your
programme, you will be asked to fill your
details in an online form. You must fill all
details and press ‘Submit’ button given at
the bottom of the form.
 Take the next step by clicking on Step 2 -
Consent Form. Complete the Employer
'Download Application PDF Copy’. This will
Consent Form. This form needs to be signed
download a pdf copy of the application
and stamped by your organisation’s HR or any
form on your computer.
other authorised signatory of the company.
 Now, click on Step 3 - 'Pay Application
Important: In view of work-from-home
Fee’ to pay INR 1,500/- using Net banking/
policies mandated by many organisations, a
Debit Card/ Credit Card.
few candidates may not be able to get the
 Take a printout of the downloaded physical forms signed by their HR/ other
Application Form and note down the authorised organisational representative.
Application Form Number that appear on Such candidates may instead request an
the top-right corner of the first page. This email approval to be sent to their official
Application Form Number should be email ID by the HR using the format
referred in all future correspondence with available through this link.
BITS Pilani.
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  Further on page no. 4 of the printed
Application Form is a section called
the Mentor Consent Form. The
Mentor Consent Form needs to be
signed by the Mentor.
Important: In view of work-from-home
policies mandated by many
organisations, a few candidates may
not be able to get the physical forms
signed by their Mentor. Such
candidates may instead request an
email approval to be sent to their
official email ID by the Mentor using
the format available through this link.

WHO IS A MENTOR:  Further on page no. 5 of the downloaded

Application Form, is a Checklist of
Candidates applying to Work Integrated
Enclosures/ Attachments.
Learning Programmes must choose a Mentor,
who will monitor the academic progress of the a. Make photocopies of the documents
candidate, and act as an advisor & coach for mentioned in this Checklist
successful completion of the programme.
b. Applicants are required to self-attest all
Candidates should ideally choose the immediate academic mark sheets and certificates
supervisor or another senior person from the
same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is  Finally, click on Step 4 - 'Upload & Submit
not available in the same organisation, a All Required Documents’. This will allow
candidate could approach a senior person in you to upload one-by-one the printed
another organisation who has the required Application Form, Mentor Consent Form,
qualifications. Wherever the proposed Mentor is Employer Consent Form, and all
not from the same employing organization as
mandatory supporting documents and
that of the candidate, a supporting document
giving justification for the same should be
complete the application process.
provided by the candidate’s employer. Acceptable file formats for uploading these
documents are .DOC, .DOCX, .PDF, .ZIP
Candidates applying to B.Tech. programmes and .JPEG.
should choose a Mentor who is an employed
professional with B.E./ B.S./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./  Upon receipt of your Application Form and
A.M.I.E./ Integrated First Degree of BITS or all other enclosures, the Admissions Cell
equivalent. Candidates applying to M.Tech., will scrutinise them for completeness,
M.Sc., MBA, M.Phil programme should choose a accuracy and eligibility.
Mentor who is an employed professional with:
 Admission Cell will intimate selected
a. B.E./ M.Sc./ M.B.A./ M.C.A./ M.B.B.S. etc. candidates by email within two weeks of
and with a minimum of five years of relevant submission of application with all
work experience supporting documents. The selection
OR status can also be checked by logging in
b. M.E./ M.S./ to the Online Application Centre.
M.Tech./ M.Phil./ M.D./ Higher Degree of
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UGC Approval
BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under and productivity increase. The programme may lead
UGC (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be to award of degree, diploma, and certificate in
Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work science, technology/engineering, management, and
Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) of BITS humanities and social sciences.
Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational
On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert
offerings for working professionals. WILP are an
Committee, UGC in its 548th Meeting held on
extension of programmes offered at the
09.09.20 has approved the continued offering of BITS
BITSPilani Campuses and are comparable to our
Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning programmes.
regular programmes both in terms of unit/credit
requirements as well as academic rigour. In
addition, it capitalises and further builds on
practical experience of students through high
degree of integration, which results not only in
upgradation of knowledge, but also in up skilling,

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