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The NIIT University is built on four core principles which, we believe, will make it unique. The singular objective behind this is to effectively implement them in creating the entire university so that students who graduate experience a visible difference between the point they entered the Neemrana campus and the point at which they emerge.

And we believe, too, that this is what will be valued by the Industry.

1.The first of these is that the University will be Industry–Linked. This is being implemented through a very close connection between Industry and the University in developing the curriculum. The second activity is that the under-graduate as well as post-graduate students would spend a full six-month semester undertaking industry practice or internship in the Masters program. The third kind of activity would be deep–engagement of industry professionals in teaching at the University – either by visiting or through the use of technology like the Synchronous Learning technology that is deployed at NIIT’s Imperia classrooms. And the fourth, of course is a very deep engagement of Industry in the recruitment and placement process of passing graduates.

2.The second core principle is Technology-Based. This is where the 27 years of experience of NIIT Ltd, its expertise and knowledge that has been created in computer education would be harnessed for the benefit of the University – making it a trend-setter in the use of science and technology in the entire teaching–learning process; as well as the process of managing education.

3.The third core principle is Research-Driven; and this goes well beyond having exceptionally good laboratories. It starts, in fact, with the principle that right in the first year of the Bachelor’s degree program, students will be educated so that a research mind-set is built into their way of studying. For example, rather than their preparing or finding answers to the known questions, they would perhaps focus on looking for new questions; or the fact that if they were to do a BTech project, we would encourage the involvement and interaction of a group of student-doctorates from the PhD program or the Masters program who would participate along with them.

4And finally the fourth core principle is what we call Seamlessness. Seamlessness has many many dimensions – starting from the fact that life would be multi-disciplinary and students would have free choice to move between different electives and streams. Seamlessness also means that projects would be done by groups not just across disciplines but also across different levels including PhD, Masters and BTech students working collaboratively. It also shows up in the way the campus is laid out with the central pedestrian spine that binds the residential, the academic areas and the staff areas in a very seamless fashion. Seamless also is the manner in which the built part of the campus integrates very beautifully with the hillocks on the side which run all along the 100 acre area of the campus.

These, then, are the four cornerstones of the NIIT University – and it is not just philosophy but is already in practice.