Indian students swear by these professional courses

BENGALURU: Millions of students graduate in India every year. Among them, only a few are able to grab a decent job and the rest are lost in the hunt. Generally the next step for them is to either enroll for MBA, or prepare for government jobs. Luckily, there are other options too. Many national and international organizations and universities offer online certification courses. These courses help build knowledge base that subsequently helps them grab the relevant job or even fuels their mind to be creative and start their own business.

At the time when the number of internet users in India is growing tremendously, anyone willing to add to his/her knowledge can enroll, learn, and get certified through these portals irrespective of the age and profession.

Here we bring you a list of 9 courses that are popular among young Indians, courtesy Business Insider.

Data Science

The course helps you ‘ask the right questions’ as a data scientist. It provides in-depth knowledge about manipulating data sets and creating visualizations to communicate results. It also helps in understanding the major tools and ideas from the data scientist's toolbox. A conceptual understanding of how data can be utilized to perform specific actions within organizations would be a great incentive for learners in this data driven era.

Project Management Principles and Practices

Every task in any organization is related to some project, whether short term or long term. Project management is considered to be one of those important disciplines that help an organization successfully run projects and achieve project goals. Certification in project management helps in learning key roles and responsibilities of a project manager and project team.

Social Media Marketing

So you were looking for shoes online. Next you checked your facebook. But wait! What’s that? An advertisement of the same shoes you searched for appears in your news feed. Well that tells you the power of social media marketing. A course in this field provides you with the tools, insights, knowledge, and skills to positively impact your marketing career.

Big Data

The buzz word! Big Data is impacting us all, even if we can’t realize. The course in Big Data is also related to data science. It helps you understand how and why ‘it is the Big Data era in technology’. It will also provide you with insights about how Big Data can strike your career (or your entrepreneurial dreams!)

Business Analytics

It’s a course that guides you through the Big Data analytics. An inside view of the marketing, HR, and finance operations and how data analysts predict and make informed decisions in all these areas will offer as a key learning. If you are related to (or willing to get into) IT industry and its related analytics, a course in Business Analytics can power your career dreams.

Strategic Management and Innovation

In a very competitive and captive business age, a specialization in this aspect will open up opportunities to learn the evolving stage and role of key technology ingredients such as the design, UI/UX and how the tinge of these weighs more for businesses. From innovation, creating values, to strategizing for business realities, it’s a set of learning chores that awaits you.

Programming the Internet of Things (IOT)

IoT has arguably been the technology that has influenced the current business and technology arena towards a massive transformation. From connected cars to smart cities, to devices communicating at households, IoT has seen the course of its utilization to a great extent. A course in IoT will help you learn importance of this concept, current components of IoT devices, their design and trends for the future.

Machine Learning

Decades ago Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a mere concept in development and a money making fiction for movies. Today it seems future is now with so many developments in robotics, mobile voice assistants etc. Machine learning is a ‘Must-Do’ exciting course for Techies.

Software Product Management

Agility is essential in any software development program. There are always chances of change in demands from customers in every phase of the development cycle. In this scenario, managing the developer team is itself poses a challenge. The course in this field helps you master agile software practices, leadership, and client interaction.

Source: techgig.com