The emergence of new technologies and software has expanded the horizons of computer applications both for education as well as employment. This advent is coming up with the new career opportunities providing a career extension to the students in Information Technology. The IT industry is marching ahead with a great pace resulting in many students taking computer applications as a career choice. A bachelor and a master’s degree in computer applications is the way to go for the students who aspire to develop a career in this field. This degree is highly profession-oriented and includes learning and mastering various programming languages, software, coding and various programming concepts.

Faculty of Computer Applications at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Applications (BCA & MCA) and B.Sc.- Information Technology designed to meet the growing requirements of qualified professionals not only in the IT industry but also in other fields such as healthcare, transportation, travel and many more. Besides being provided a highly interactive learning environment, the students are exposed to the live industry projects and taken to industry visits to enable them to gain insights of the industry. B.Sc.- Information Technology is offered in association with Auckland Institute of Studies, New Zealand (a unique tertiary institution providing NZQA Accredited Programmes) with inbuilt 4-week internship programme at AIS, New Zealand.

SAP module of 40-hours duration on Business Processes has been embedded in the curricula of BCA and MCA to bridge the industry-academia gap and enhance the employability and entrepreneurial prospects of the students. The department has a student chapter of IEEE, Advance Computing Machinery (ACM), and Computer Society of India (CSI) and various co-curricular activities are conducted in association with them. AICTE-Approved MCA programme offered by the department covers various aspects of computational theory, programming, algorithm design and optimization, network and database management, mobile technologies, electronics, mathematics, probability, statistics, accounting, finance, etc. Along with this, technical seminars and lectures by IT Industry Experts and Renowned Academicians are conducted.

Thrust areas of the department include Data Analytics, Network Security and Cloud Computing, Machine

Learning, Big Data, Software Defined networking, Internet of Things, Cryptography, Data Mining, and Human-Computer Interaction which are aimed at furnishing the IT skills of the students and taking them to the wonderful world of Computers and Information Technology.

Computer programmers, software developers, web designer, database administrator, software consultant, system analyst, technical writer and multimedia programmer are some of the career opportunities that exist in this field. Top Recruiters of the department are IBM, Accenture, Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, AON Hewitt, CMC Technologies, DELL, HCL Technologies, IGATE, L & T Infotech, Motherson Sumi, NIIT, Samsung, WIPRO, SONY ERICSSON, Genpact, Zen Focus, 3 Pillars Global, Aricent Technologies, ICS Solutions, SunLife Financials.