M.Tech.

Data Science & Engineering

for Working
Professionals
INDEX
Programme Introduction 01

Who Should Apply 02

Programme Highlights 03

Programme Objectives 05

WILP Presence and Impact 06

Student Learning Outcomes 07

Mode of Learning 08

Experiential Learning 10

Programme Curriculum 11

Eligibility Criteria 12

Fee Structure 13

Course-Wise Syllabus 14

Mode of Examination 22

How to Apply 24

Students Speak 27
 Program Introduction

According to LinkedIn's Emerging Jobs report, Data Science has emerged as

the fastest-growing job globally, with a remarkable growth rate of over 650%
since 2012. Moreover, the Data Science market is predicted to follow an
upward trajectory, increasing from USD 37.9 billion in 2019 to a projected
value of USD 230.80 billion by 2026.

Join BITS Pilani WILP's M.Tech. Data Science & Engineering Programme,
a comprehensive four-semester course designed for Software and IT
professionals.

This program empowers professionals to specialize in roles like Data Analyst,

Data Engineer, Data Architect, and Data Scientist, offering an opportunity to
enhance career prospects without the need for a career break.

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 Who Should Apply?

Software and IT
professionals in roles
like Software Engineer,
Programmer, Software
Test Engineer, Support
Engineer, Data Analyst,
or Business Analyst
seeking to transition to
Data Scientist or Data
Engineer roles should
consider applying to this
program.

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 Programme Highlights
M.Tech. Data Science and
Engineering is a BITS Pilani Work The curriculum covers key
Integrated Learning Programme areas for popular Data Science
(WILP). BITS Pilani Work roles like Analyst, Engineer,
Integrated Learning Programmes Architect, and Scientist.
are UGC approved.

The program includes core and

Pursue the four-semester elective courses such as Data
programme without any career Management for Machine
break. Contact classes over a Learning, Big Data Systems,
technology enabled platform are Optimization Techniques for
conducted mostly on weekends Analytics, Natural Language
and after business hours. Processing, etc.

The program utilizes various

Tools and Technologies like
Apache Spark, Apache Storm for
Big Data Systems/Real-time
Offers the most comprehensive
Processing, Tableau for data
Data Science Curriculum for
visualization, Tensorflow for Deep
working professionals.
Learning, and various Python
packages for data processing,
machine learning, and
visualization.

Aimed at transitioning software &

Covers fundamental to advanced
IT professionals into Data Science
skill sets and comprehensive
careers tracks closest to their
knowledge in Data Science.
interest/passion.

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 Participants who successfully
The final-semester Dissertation
complete the programme will
(Project Work) allows students to
become members of an elite &
apply learned concepts and
global community of BITS Pilani
techniques.
Alumni.

The Continuous Evaluation

System assesses learners at Option to submit fee using easy-
regular intervals, providing EMI with 0% interest and 0 down
timely feedback to busy payment
professionals.

The program combines classroom

and experiential learning through
labs, assignments, case studies,
and work-integrated activities.

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 Programme Objectives
The program focuses on essential skills required for lucrative roles in Data Science, Data
Engineering, and Advanced Analytics, covering:

Mathematical and Statistical Data structures, algorithms, and

modeling for problem-solving. complexity management.

Computer organization, Data Mining involving

architecture, and advanced data preprocessing, classification, and
processing techniques. engineering through distributed and
cloud computing.

Advanced skills in Machine

Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
Deep Learning, and Natural
Language Processing.

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 WILP Presence and Impact

45+ 1,26,169
Years of Working
Educating Working Professionals
Professionals Graduated

46,178 1100+
Working Professionals
Currently Enrolled Faculty Members

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Programmes

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 Student
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the programme, the
students will be able to:

Demonstrate conceptual
Demonstrate conceptual Understand the system
understanding and
understanding and and software engineering
hands-on knowledge of
hands-on knowledge of requirements for
traditional and
AI application areas such implementing machine
contemporary AI and
as natural language learning systems on large
machine learning
processing, computer datasets and in
techniques, including
vision, or cyber security. resource-constrained
deep learning, and
environments.
reinforcement learning.

Understand the
underlying ethical issues
in applying AI and
machine learning.

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 Mode of Learning
The Mode of Learning used in this programme is called - Work Integrated Learning.
Internationally, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is defined as "An educational approach
involving three parties - the student, educational institution, and employer organization(s)
- consisting of authentic work-focused experiences as an intentional component of the
curriculum. Students learn through active engagement in purposeful work tasks, which
enable the integration of theory with meaningful practice that is relevant to the students'
discipline of study and/or professional development*.

An education model can be considered as WIL if and only if:

1. The programs are designed and developed by the institute in collaboration with
industry.
2. Work-focused experiences form an active part of the curriculum.
3. The program structure, pedagogy and assessment enable integration of theory-with
relevant practice.

The innovative Work Integrated Learning Programs (WILP) of BITS Pilani are quite
aligned with the above definition and requirements. The programs are designed in
collaboration with its industry partners, subject matter experts from industry and
academia that enable the students to remain relevant in their chosen profession, grow in
their career and retain the habit of lifelong learning. The continued availability of
workplace related experiences along with the weekly instruction sessions promote
integration of theory with practice. An active participation of the organization mentor in the
learning process of the student plays a key role. Case studies, simulation exercises, labs
and projects further strengthen this integration.

The WILP of BITS Pilani is comparable to its campus-based programs in terms of

structure, rigor, instruction, labs, assessment, faculty profile and learning support. The
pervasive adoption of technology in all its academic processes makes the same
high-quality education of BITS Pilani available to the aspirants at scale with the required
flexibility.

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 Key Benefits of BITS Pilani WILP

● Can pursue the programme without any career break and along with the job.
● The programme curriculum is highly relevant to sectors, industries and
organisations they work for
● In addition to the institute, the learning experience of working professionals in the
programme is also supported by the employer organisation and Industry Mentors.
● Effective use of technology to deliver a range of learning interventions at the location
of the working professional such as faculty contact sessions, asynchronous learning
materials, remote, virtual and cloud labs, Learner support, peer to peer collaboration
etc.
● Contact sessions with faculty take place mostly over weekends or after business
hours and are conducted over a technology platform that can be accessed from
anywhere.
● Mid semester and End semester examinations for every semester are conducted
mostly at designated examination centres distributed across the country. For details,
click here.
● Learners can access engaging learning material which includes recorded lectures
from BITS Pilani faculty members, course handouts and recorded lab content where
applicable.

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 Experiential Learning
The programme emphasizes on Experiential Learning that allows learners to apply concepts
learnt in classroom in simulated and real work situations. This is achieved through:

Tools & Technologies covered

Case studies & Assignments

Carefully chosen real-world cases & assignments are both discussed and used as problem-
solving exercises during the programme.

Project Work
The fourth semester offers an opportunity for learners to apply
their knowledge 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

Continuous Assessment
The learners' performance is assessed continuously throughout the semester using various tools
such as quiz, assignments, mid-semester and comprehensive exams. The assessment results are
shared with the learners to improve their performance. Each course will entail a minimum of 1
Assignment/ Quiz, a Mid-semester exam and a final Comprehensive exam. Your semester
calendar will indicate the dates of the Mid-semester and Comprehensive exam. Online Exams
facility available.
Typically, a Mid-semester or Comprehensive examination for a course is for 2-3 hours duration.
The examinations are typically conducted over a weekend, i.e. Saturday and Sunday.

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 Programme Curriculum
The programme features 12 courses between Semester 1-3, and a Dissertation in Semester 4.
All the courses will be offered using contact sessions over a technology enabled platform.

First Semester Second Semester

● Mathematical foundations for ● Introduction to Statistical Methods
Data Science ● Elective - I
● Introduction to Data Science ● Elective - II
● Computer Organization and System ● Elective - III
Software
● Data Structures and Algorithm
Design

Third Semester Fourth Semester

● Big Data Systems ● Dissertation
● Elective - IV
● Elective - V
● Elective - VI

General Pool of Electives

● Data Warehousing ● Natural Language Processing
● Graphs – Algorithms and Mining ● Data Visualization and Interpretation
● Deep Learning* ● Stream Processing and Analytics
● Probabilistic Graphical Models ● Information Retrieval
● Optimization Techniques for Analytics ● Artificial and Computational Intelligence
● Data Management for Machine Learning ● Machine Learning*
● Applied Machine Learning

Note: *Machine Learning course is a prerequisite for Deep Learning elective course.
Note: 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 offered will be
at the discretion of the Institute.

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 Eligibility Criteria
● Employed professionals holding B.E. / B.Tech. with at least 60% aggregate marks and
minimum one-year relevant work experience after the completion of the degree are
eligible to apply.

● Employed professionals holding MCA / M.Sc. or equivalent with at least 60%

aggregate marks with university level mathematics / statistics as mandatory subjects
and minimum one-year relevant work experience after the completion of the degree
are also eligible to apply.

● Applicants should possess basic programming knowledge and adequate background

in Mathematics.

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 Fee Structure
Fee Structure for students admitted in Academic Year 2025-2026 is as follows:

Application Fees Admission Fees Semester Fees

(one time) (one time) (per semester)

`1500 `16,500 `75,100

Easy Monthly Payment Option with 0% Interest and 0 Down Payment

Instant EMI option with 0% interest and 0 Down Payment is now available
that allows you to pay programme fee in an easy and convenient way.

● Instant online approval in seconds

● No Credit Cards/ CIBIL score required
● Easy and secure online process using Aadhaar and PAN number
● Anyone with a Salary Account with Netbanking can apply the Option to submit fee
using easy- EMI with 0% interest and 0 down payment

Admissions will begin in August 2025. Click here to learn more

All the above fees are non-refundable.

Important: For every course in the programme, institute will recommend textbooks,
students would need to procure these textbooks on their own.

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 Course-wise Syllabus

Mathematical Foundations for Data Science

● Vector and matrix algebra, systems of linear algebraic equations and their solutions
● Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization of matrices
● Multivariate calculus, vector calculus, Jacobian and Hessian, multivariate Taylor
series, gradient descent, unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization,
nonlinear optimization, stochastic gradient descent, dimensionality reduction and
PCA, optimization for support vector machines

Introduction to Statistical Methods

● Basic probability concepts
● Conditional probability
● Bayes Theorem
● Probability distributions
● Continuous and discrete distributions
● Transformation of random variables
● Estimating mean
● Variance
● Covariance
● Hypothesis Testing Maximum likelihood
● ANOVA single factor, dual factor
● Time series analysis: AR, MA, ARIMA, SARIMA
● Sampling based on distribution
● Statistical significance
● Gaussian Mixture Model
● Expectation Maximization

Data Warehousing
● Introduction, evolution of data warehousing
● decision support systems

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 ● Goals, benefit, and challenges of data warehousing
● Architecture
● Aata warehouse information flows
● Software and hardware requirements
● Approaches to data warehouse design
● Creating and maintaining a data warehouse
● Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and multi-dimensional data, multi-dimensional
modeling
● View materialization
● Data marts
● Data warehouse metadata
● Data mining

Computer Organization & Software Systems

● Programmer model of CPU
● Basic concept of buses and interrupts
● Memory subsystem organization
● I/O organization
● Concept of assembler, linker & loader
● Types of operating systems
● Concept of process
● OS functions: Process scheduling, Memory management, I/O management and
related issues

Graphs - Algorithms and Mining

● Basic concepts of graphs and digraphs connectivity, reachability and vulnerability
● Trees, tournaments and matroids
● Planarity
● Routing and matching problems
● Representations
● Various algorithms Applications
● Introduction to graph mining, Graph Pattern Mining, Graph Classification, Graph
Compression, graph model, graph dynamics, social network analysis, visualization,
summarization, graph clustering, link analysis, applications of graph patterns

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 Big Data Systems
● What is big data - are existing systems sufficient?
● Data Warehouse v/s Data Lakes
● Hadoop – Components
● Storage - Relational DBs/ NoSQL dbs / HDFS / HBase / Object Data stores – S3
● Serialization
● Interfaces - Hive/ Pig
● Stream Processing
● Spark
● Mahout

Deep Learning
● Common Architectural Principles of Deep Networks
● Building Blocks of Deep Networks
● Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
● Recurrent Neural Networks
● Recursive Neural Networks
● Building Deep Networks with ND4J
● Applications to Sequence Data
● Anomaly Detection
● Tuning Deep Networks
● Vectorization

Probabilistic Graphical Models

● HMM, Markov Random Field, Bayesian networks, Representation, Learning,
Inference
● Dynamic Bayesian Networks and Temporal Bayesian networks, applications

Optimization Techniques for Analytics

● Role of optimization in different types of analytics
● Introduction to Linear Programming
● LP Model and graphical solution
● Primal Simplex method

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 ● Dual Simplex and Post Optimality Analysis, Revised Simplex method with examples
● Application of linear programming in transportation
● Assignment problems
● Integer linear programming
● Mixed integer programming
● complexity analysis, branch and bound techniques
● Goal programming
● Network models - critical path method and PERT
● Dynamic programming
● Game theory
● Additional meta heuristic techniques
● 2-3 case studies from relevant industry domains

Data Management for Machine Learning

● Data Models and Query Languages: Relational, Object-Relational, NoSQL data
models
● Declarative (SQL) and Imperative (Map Reduce) Querying
● Data Encoding: Evolution, Formats, Models of dataflow
● Machine learning workflow
● Data management challenges in ML workflow
● Data Pipelines and patterns
● Data Pipeline Stages: Data extraction, ingestion, cleaning, wrangling, versioning,
transformation, exploration, feature management
● Modern Data Infrastructure: Diverse data sources, Cloud data warehouses and lakes,
Data Ingestion tools, Data transformation and modelling tools, Workflow orchestration
platforms
● ML model metadata and Registry, ML Observability, Data privacy and anonymity

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 Natural Language Processing
● Natural Language Understanding and Generation
● N-gram and Neural Language Models
● Word to Vectors / Word Embedding (Skip gram/CBOW, Glove, BERT/ XLM, MURIL),
● Part of Speech Tagging
● Hidden Markov Models
● Parsing - Syntactic, Statistical, Dependency, Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic
Web Ontology

Introduction to Data Science

● Data Analytics
● Data and Data Models
● Data wrangling
● Feature Engineering
● Classification and Prediction
● Association Analysis
● Clustering
● Anomaly Detection
● Exploratory / explanatory data analysis with visual storytelling
● Ethics for Data Science

Information Retrieval
● Organization, representation, and access to information
● Categorization, indexing, and content analysis
● Data structures for unstructured data
● Design and maintenance of such data structures, indexing and indexes, retrieval, and
classification schemes
● Use of codes, formats, and standards
● Analysis, construction and evaluation of search and navigation techniques
● Search engines and how they relate to the above. Multimedia data and their
representation and search

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 Data visualization and Interpretation
● Visualization as a Discovery tool
● Visualization skills for the masses
● The Visualization methodology
● Visualization design objectives
● Exploratory vs. explanatory analysis
● Understanding the context for data presentations, 3-minute story, Effective Visuals
● Gestalt principles of visual perception, Visual Ordering, Decluttering, Story Telling,
Visualization Design

Stream Processing and Analytics

● Real Time, Streaming Data & Sources, Real time streaming system architecture,
Characteristics of a Real Time Architecture and Processing
● Configuration and Coordination Systems: Distributed State and Issues, Coordination
and Configuration using Apache ZooKeeper
● Data Flow Management: Distributed Data Flows, Various Data Delivery and
Processing Requirements, N+1 Problem, Apache Kafka (High-Throughput Distributed
Messaging)
● Processing Stream Data with Storm
● Overview of Data Storage – Requirements: Need for long-term storage for a real time
processing framework, In-memory Storage, No-Sql Storage Systems, Choosing a
right storage solution
● Visualizing Data: Requirements, Principles and tools
● Bounds of Random variables, Poisson Processors, Maintaining Simple Statistics from
Data Streams, Sliding Windows and computing statistics over sliding windows, Data
Synopsis (Sampling, Histograms, Wavelets, DFT), Exact Aggregation, Timed
Counting and Summation, Multi Resolution Time Series Aggregation, Stochastic
Optimization

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 ● Statistical Approximation to Streaming Data: Probabilities and Distributions, Sampling
Procedures for Streaming Data, Approximating Streaming Data with Sketching,
Registers and Hash Functions, Working with Sets, The Bloom Filter, Distinct Value
Sketches, The Count-Min Sketch
● Clustering techniques for Streaming Data; Classification methods: Decision Tree
(VFDT) Evaluating stream processing algorithms
● Case Studies in Designing solutions to streaming data

Artificial and Computational Intelligence

● Agents and environments, Task Environments, Working of agents
● Uninformed Search Algorithms: Informed Search
● Local Search Algorithms & Optimization Problems: Genetic Algorithm
● Searching with Non-Deterministic Actions, Partial Information and Online search
agents, Game Playing, Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Knowledge Representation
using Logics: TT-Entail for inference from truth table, Proof by resolution, Forward
Chaining and Backward Chaining, Inference in FOL, Unification & Lifting, Forward
chaining, Backward Chaining, Resolution
● Probabilistic Representation and Reasoning: Inference using full joint distribution,
Representation of Conditional Independence using BN, Reinforcement Learning
● Difference between crisp and fuzzy logic, shapes of membership function,
Fuzzification and defuzzification, fuzzy logic reasoning
● Decision making with fuzzy information, Fuzzy Classification
● Connectionist Models: Introduction to Neural Networks, Hopfield Networks,
Perceptron Learning, Backpropagation & Competitive Learning
● Applications of Neural Net: Speech, Vision, Traveling Salesman
● Genetic Algorithms - Chromosomes, fitness functions, and selection mechanisms
● Genetic algorithms: crossover and mutation, Genetic programming

Machine Learning
● Introduction to Machine Learning, Various kinds of learning, Supervised Learning,
Unsupervised Learning, Model Selection
● Bayesian Learning
● MAP Hypothesis, MDL Principle, Bias Variance Decomposition, Bayes Optimal
Classifier, Naive Bayes Classifier
● Linear Models for Regression, Linear Models for Classification
● Non-Linear models, Decision trees

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 ● Instance Based Learning, KNN Algorithm, CBR Learning
● Support Vector Machines, VC Dimension; Neural Networks, Perceptron Learning,
Back Propagation Algorithm
● Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

Applied Machine Learning

● Need for machine learning
● Prediction and classification methods
● Use cases in application domains
● Interpretation of results
● Limitations of various techniques
● End to end Machine learning - data collection, data preparation, model selection

Dissertation
A student registered in this course must take a topic in an area of professional interest
drawn from the on the job work requirement which is simultaneously of direct relevance to
the degree pursued by the student as well as to the employing / collaborating
organization of the student and submit a comprehensive report at the end of the semester
working under the overall supervision and guidance of a professional expert who will be
deemed as the supervisor for evaluation of all components of the dissertation. Normally
the Mentor of the student would be the Dissertation supervisor and in case Mentor is not
approved as the supervisor, Mentor may play the role of additional supervisor. The final
grades for dissertation are non-letter grades namely Excellent, Good, Fair and Poor,
which do not go into CGPA computation.

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 Mode of Examination

Semester 1, 2 and 3 have Mid-Semester

Examinations and Comprehensive
Mode of Examinations Examinations for each course.

applicable for students These examinations are mostly

scheduled on Friday, Saturday or
admitted in Sunday. Students need to appear in
person for taking the examinations
Batch starting in at the institution’s designated
examination centres as per the
July 2025.
examination schedule, Instructions, rules
and guidelines announced before every
examination.

During these semesters,

in addition to the above
mentioned Mid-Semester and
In Semester 4 (Final
Comprehensive examinations,
Semester), the student will be
there will also be
Quizzes/Assignments conducted doing Dissertation/Project
online on the Learning Work as per the Institution’s
Management System (LMS) as per guidelines.
the course plan in which the
students need to participate.

Students can take their examination at any of our 34 designated examination centres in India
at the following locations:
● South Zone: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kochi,
Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai, Coimbatore.
● North Zone: Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow,
Udaipur, Pilani.
● West Zone: Mumbai, Pune, Ahilya Nagar, Goa, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Indore,
Nagpur, Bhopal, Raipur.
● East Zone: Kolkata, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar.
In addition to these locations, the Institution also has a designated examination
centre in Dubai.

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 For International Students:
● In addition to the above locations, the institution also has a designated international
examination centre, located in Dubai.
● To facilitate the learning of international students, applying from any other location except
India and Dubai, the mode of examinations will be online, which can be availed by meeting
the requirements of the institute.
Requirements for online examinations
o Scanned copy of the visa for the country in which you are currently residing. The visa
should be currently valid. No expired visas shall be considered,
(OR)
o Scanned copy of government-issued ID from the residing country,
(And)
o HR recommendation or endorsement letter from the employer, stating the location of
your work.
● Indian students, who are temporarily based out of India, can also avail of online examinations
on request by meeting the above-mentioned requirements of the institute.

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 How to Apply

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In the printout of the downloaded Application Form, you will notice on page no. 3 a section called the
Employer Consent Form. Complete the Employer Consent Form. This form needs to be signed and
stamped by your organisation’s HR or any other authorised signatory of the company.
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 HR/other authorised organisational representative.
Such candidates may instead request an email approval to be sent to their official email ID by the HR
using the format available through this link.

On page 4, complete the Mentor Consent Form, Due to remote work policies, some candidates
which needs to be signed by your Mentor. may struggle to get physical mentor signatures.
They can request email approval using a
provided format.

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 Role of a Mentor:
The basic role of the mentor will be to ensure that the student remains aligned with the
academic objectives and the key academic milestones while pursuing the programme. The
mentor’s valuable guidance and professional expertise would also be leveraged to maximise
work-integrated learning and make the education experience highly relevant for the job role
and pursuit of the long-term career goals of the student. Following are the expected
responsibilities of the mentor:
1. Periodically monitor student’s study schedules and submission deadlines for the
programme.
2. Provide guidance towards integrating learning from the programme with job role/long-term
career goals, especially while the student pursues their learning assignments and project
work.
3. Monitor the student’s progress throughout the duration of the programme. If required by
BITS Pilani, also try to be available to engage with the faculty to collaboratively assess
the student’s academic performance and recommend any learning improvement plan.
4. Emphasise the importance of self-study and self-learning throughout the programme to
the student.
Qualifications for a Mentor:
The mentor chosen should be a senior professional with at least 5 years of relevant work
experience, holding a B.E./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ M.B.A./ M.B.B.S./ First Degree at BITS Pilani or
its equivalent. If the mentor has less than 5 years of relevant work experience, then the
minimum educational qualification for the mentor should be M.E./ M.Tech./ M.S./ M.Phil./
Higher Degree of BITS Pilani or its equivalent is required.

In the final step (Step 4),

Photocopies of these
Page 5 of the downloaded upload your printed Application Accepted file formats for
documents should be made,
Application Form includes Form, Mentor Consent Form, uploads include .DOC,
and applicants need to
a Checklist of Employer Consent Form, and .DOCX, .PDF, .ZIP, and
self-attest academic mark
Enclosures/Attachments. mandatory documents .JPEG.
sheets and certificates.
one by one.

Selected candidates will

The Admissions Cell will You can also check your
receive email notifications
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within two weeks of submitting
completeness, accuracy, in to the Online Application
their application with all
and eligibility. Centre.
required documents.

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 UGC Approval
BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under UGC (Institution of Eminence
Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work Integrated Learning
Programmes (WILP) of BITS Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational
offerings for working professionals. WILP are an extension of programmes
offered at the BITSPilani Campuses and are comparable to our 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, and productivity increase.
The programme may lead to award of degree, diploma, and certificate in
science, technology/engineering, management, and humanities and social
sciences.
On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert Committee, UGC in its
548th Meeting held on 09.09.20 has approved the continued offering of BITS
Pilani’s Work Integrated Learning programmes.

The material in this brochure is provided for educational and informational purposes only. All the
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 Students Speak
I was looking for an upskilling programme that meets my career
aspirations without any career break and BITS Pilani WILP was
exactly what I needed. My experience with the faculty was great
and the concepts I learnt here are relevant in real-time situations
as well.

C R Bhargavi
Software Engineer, Ford Motor Pvt Ltd

I was looking for a program where I could learn multiple things

relevant to my work profile. I then heard of BITS Pilani WILP. My
overall journey with WILP has been amazing. I’ve learned a lot and
now I am more confident at my workplace. I am able to explain
complex things to people easily, which is ultimately helping my entire
team to perform better.

Prashant Thakre
Technical Architect, GE Healthcare

I truly see my decision of pursuing a degree programme from BITS

Pilani WILP as the best career move so far. This programme
equipped me with world-class skills, technologies and in-depth
knowledge in this field that helped me to become the leader.
Learning without a career break from the best faculty to weekend
classes, recorded lectures, everything was just perfect!

Abhishek Kumar Mishra

Leader, Data Science, Brilio Technologies

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