Chandigarh (Gurpreet)Bhartiya Skill Development University, Jaipur (BSDU) one of the leading universities to offer skill development programs that has been incorporated by Government of Rajasthan vide State Legislature Act No. 3 of 2017 (Bhartiya Skill Development University Jaipur Act 2017) and notified vide Notification No. F.2(4) Vidhi/2017 dated 30th March, 2017. The UGC has included BSDU in its list of universities vide UGC letter no. F. 8-14/2017 (CPP-I/PU) dated 04 August 2017.. University has recently introduced a contactless admission process on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. The University invites applications for its 3-year B.Voc Program where the curriculum is focused on 60% Skills and 40% General Education Component. BSDU follows the Swiss-Dual System of training where Industrial internship offered is up to 1.5 years i.e. student is exposed to the practical industrial environment every alternate semester which is not offered by any University.
The strength of any university is its students and where they are placed as they carry themselves as brand ambassadors. BSDU’s training and placement cell nurtures the aspirations of students and creates a connect with recruiters’ requirements and student skills matching up industry requirements. Students have the liberty to secure skills in the area of their interests where BSDU enhances skills through soft skill training, personality development, full involvement of faculty and trainers during internal internships, and have excellent collaborations with companies in India and abroad offering placements in the best companies. The students are groomed through a rigorous process of mock interviews, group discussions, presentations on technical/ general topics, and entrepreneurship preparing them for a whole new exposure outside a University. More than 100 companies visited for internships at the campus in 2020 where 378 students were placed for an internship with the highest stipend for internship per month was up to Rs. 25,000/-.
Prof.Achintya Choudhury, President BSDU said, “Bhartiya Skill Development University is the only university that offers state of the art set-up and infrastructure that has a curriculum designed by experts from the industry. BSDU has always focused on nurturing students with the ideology of making them entrepreneurs and not job-seekers. The University has strong collaborations with esteemed organizations where imparting industrial knowledge through internships of 1.5 years across their curriculum has been fruitful to make them trained resources for industries and organizations in not just India but across the globe.”
Prof. Choudhury further said, “The B.Voc program is designed to provide students with a broad, versatile skill set, coupled with hands-on industry exposure. Situated in Rajasthan, the University has faculty who have been veterans in their fields across industries that train our students. Our students experience Global Culture as they are trained by International Trainers and Project Managers.”
The UGC has approved B.Voc and M.Voc programs based on the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) to address the critical requirements of Skill sets to make the graduate's industry-ready. These programs are now equivalent to any other graduate degree program.