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NIIT ties up with Swinburne Tuesday, April 10, 2001

AHMEDABAD: NIIT, Ahmedabad has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

The agreement allows an NIIT, Ahmedabad student with a bachelor's degree in any discipline and a DNIIT certificate to complete Swinburne's masters in information technology programme in just one year instead of two.

A standard XII student on the other hand can complete the bachelors in information technology degree in one-and-a-half years.

The MoU was signed between NIIT - Ahmedabad Jay Singhani and the school administration manager of the School of Information Technology at Swinburne Bruce Tudball. Planet Educational Consultants, a company that specialises in sending students to Australia was also part of the MoU.

Speaking to reporters after signing the MoU, Tudball told reporters that they decided to take a look at NIIT, Ahmedabad as many of their students who came to the University, had already received some of the basics that were being taught. "Our survey and analysis showed that there were many common things in each others curriculum, apart from a few extra points that NIIT covered," he said. "That led us to signing the MoU."

Singhania said that he expected to send about 100 students to the Melbourne-based University next year. "In fact I have already one student who will be coming to the University soon," Tudball added. Costing about US $ 7,000 a year, the basic criteria is that a student should have at least 70 per cent marks as a DNIIT student.

 

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