I think the importance of computers in today's early 21st century world is unquestioned by any realistic individuals anywhere in the world. However it is very strange that some Indian academic Computer Science departments (at least one that I am aware of) continue to live in a 20th century era. Specifically:
a) They combine Mathematics and Computer Science as a single department - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Surely, in the early 21st century computer and Internet age, Indian universities should have a separate Computer Science department instead of combining it with Mathematics! I know of one such combined CS and Mathematics department case for sure. I do not know whether that is an exception with no other Indian university today having a combined Mathematics and Computer Science department.
b) They do not offer undergraduate and immediate post-graduate degrees in Computer Science or Computer Science & Engineering. Instead students who are interested to acquire a computer science qualification from that university have to, in the normal case, first do B.Sc. (Mathematics), a 3 year programme (done after 12th grade), followed by M.Sc. (Mathematics), a 2 year programme, and then take up M.Tech. (Computer Science), a 2 year programme (a total of 7 years after 12th grade to get the CS qualification)! [The exception case is doing undergraduate Computer Science degree elsewhere and then trying to join the M.Tech. (CS) programme in this university after clearing their entrance exam & interview.] In today's age where students are ambitious, most students who want (or are constrained in some way like financially) to do Computer Science in a science, commerce and arts (UGC) university (as against an engineering or technology university) will pursue B.Sc. (Computer Science), a 3 year programme, I presume like other science degree programmes, immediately after 12th grade, and optionally follow it up with M.Sc. (Computer Science), a 2 year programme. [In engineering/technology (AICTE) universities such students will pursue B.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) or B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering), a 4 year programme (done after 12th grade), followed optionally by M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) or M.E. (Computer Science & Engineering), a 2 year programme.]
Please note that I am discussing only Computer Science and Computer Science & Engineering branches in this post and not Information Technology or Computer Applications branches.
a) They combine Mathematics and Computer Science as a single department - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Surely, in the early 21st century computer and Internet age, Indian universities should have a separate Computer Science department instead of combining it with Mathematics! I know of one such combined CS and Mathematics department case for sure. I do not know whether that is an exception with no other Indian university today having a combined Mathematics and Computer Science department.
b) They do not offer undergraduate and immediate post-graduate degrees in Computer Science or Computer Science & Engineering. Instead students who are interested to acquire a computer science qualification from that university have to, in the normal case, first do B.Sc. (Mathematics), a 3 year programme (done after 12th grade), followed by M.Sc. (Mathematics), a 2 year programme, and then take up M.Tech. (Computer Science), a 2 year programme (a total of 7 years after 12th grade to get the CS qualification)! [The exception case is doing undergraduate Computer Science degree elsewhere and then trying to join the M.Tech. (CS) programme in this university after clearing their entrance exam & interview.] In today's age where students are ambitious, most students who want (or are constrained in some way like financially) to do Computer Science in a science, commerce and arts (UGC) university (as against an engineering or technology university) will pursue B.Sc. (Computer Science), a 3 year programme, I presume like other science degree programmes, immediately after 12th grade, and optionally follow it up with M.Sc. (Computer Science), a 2 year programme. [In engineering/technology (AICTE) universities such students will pursue B.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) or B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering), a 4 year programme (done after 12th grade), followed optionally by M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) or M.E. (Computer Science & Engineering), a 2 year programme.]
Please note that I am discussing only Computer Science and Computer Science & Engineering branches in this post and not Information Technology or Computer Applications branches.
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