MCA is PU’s most preferred course

The PU Department of Computer Science and Applications received 2,849 applications for 85 seats – 40 in the morning session and 45 in the evening. The merit list of applicants who took the OCET exam conducted by Panjab University (PU) on June 12 will be released soon. The department attributes such a large number of applications to the multi-disciplinary avenues a candidate has after completing this professional course,with equal opportunities abroad.

“This year the department received around 400 more applications compared to the previous year. The reason MCA is emerging as a popular course is that unlike other professional courses,this does not let a degree-holder limit himself to one particular field ie Computers but offers multiple options,be it in the field of Arts or Science,” said the chairman of the Department,Prof Indu Chhabra.

When going through the profile of candidates who had applied and taken the entrance test for the course,it was revealed that it is not only graduates in Computer Applications (BCA) but other courses,too,like BCom,BA (Maths),BA (Computer Science) as well as those who have opted for Computer Science as an elective course.

A national high performer

* MCA (Evening): Self-financing 3-year full time course with semester system (45 seats)

* MCA (Morning): 3-year course with semester system (40 seats) Course introduced in 1992-93. Two new courses,BSc (Honours School) in Computer Science and MSc (Honours School) in Computer Science have been introduced from the years 2001 and 2004 respectively.

* Panjab University has been identified as a Level-III National High Performance Computing Centre under the ICOSER project of TIFAC,Department of Science and Technology. It is among the 7 such centres being set up around the country and is the only one in northern India.