All the metropolitan cities in India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata & Hyderabad are leading IT hubs in the nation. But, a recent study suggests that Hyderabad engineering graduates are comparatively less skilled when compared with students of other cities. Hyderabad, the southern Indian city that sends the largest number of STEM students to the US, is home to India’s worst techies, a study has noted.
Software engineers from the city lag much behind those from other Indian cities when it comes to programming skills, a recent Aspiring Minds study of over 36,000 engineering students in India showed. The employability assessment company tested students from IT-related streams at over 500 colleges across India on Automata, a machine learning-based assessment of software development skills.
The study analyzed students on their programming skills, practices, and ability to handle runtime complexity—the time taken to run a program. Hyderabad had a total score of just 3.49 on 100 while New Delhi had 23.48 and the Mumbai and Pune regions together had a score of 17.51.
Hyderabad, home to over 6.8 million people, is the common capital of two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Over the past decade or so, it has turned into a hub for thousands of students aspiring to enter the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. Between 2008 and 2012, it sent over 26,000 students to the US, most pursuing science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degrees, a Brookings Institution report said.
In 2015—the year for which the latest data is available—the US government issued around 60,000 visas to Indian students, with a large number being issued by the US consulate general in Hyderabad.
Reacting to low-ranking for Hyderabad and the report, TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge) chief Sujeev Nayar said, ‘In order to enhance the programming skills among our engineering students, we will soon bring in some special courses at their respective colleges.’
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