Which institute is a better option for BCA? Symbiosis, Pune or Christ, Bangalore?

Symbiosis International Pune’s BCA course has been ranked as number 1 nationally by IndiaToday. Christ University secures rank 23 for Top 50 Universities in India.

Some of the important information regarding BCA at Symbiosis and Christ University are as follows.

Facilities:

Symbiosis Pune:

• The department is headed by three Directors, 8 Professors, 41 Assistant Professors, and 7 Associate Professors.

• Google Student Club is an academic attempt at students being liaisons for the renowned company.

• GNUnify is the annual event for computer and IT enthusiasts with workshops and seminars and open-source showcasing events.

• The department has 5 laboratories with computer and network security. Hardware facilities are also available along with AV classrooms.

• The department library has over 1900 books. An online portal to access the library and view online journals is also present.

Christ University, Bangalore:

• The BCA program has over 44 teaching staff and 7 Guest Faculties.

• More than 5 festivals are conducted every year for students wishing to attend seminars, workshops, and sessions in the IT sector.

• The campus 2-building library has over 3,00,000 books, 5000 CDs and DVDs, 450 periodicals, 27 newspapers, and 18 online databases.

• There are 4 student laboratories for the BCA course along with 14 classrooms.

• The student-faculty ratio of the course is 9:1.

Placements:

Symbiosis Pune:

• Fiat Motors, Kotak Mahindra, Saint Gobain, SBI, Reliance Industries, Kellogg India, HCL Technologies, Thomas Cook, Microsoft, Whirlpool, etc are major recruiters of Symbiosis students.

• The highest salary package of BCA (2019) was INR 18 per year.

• 28% of the job offers were from Fortune companies.

• Overall, 186 placement offers were received by students.

• The average annual compensation was around INR 4 LPA.

Christ University, Bangalore:

• Grant Thornton, HCL, HP, IBM, ICICI, Kotak Bank, KPMG, Oracle, Oyo Rooms, Reliance, Robosoft, SAP, TCS, Accenture, etc.

• In 2019, 2149 students were successfully placed in the university out of which 1124 were undergraduates.

• Deloitte and KPMG placed more than 80 job offer to Christ University.

• The highest package is INR 13 LPA while the median salary offer of the university is around INR 6.85 LPA.

BCA as a course has a wide scope especially in the IT and computing sectors as a Web Developer, Software Developer, and Network Administrator, and so on. Choosing which college is superior is challenging. These colleges are well-known and have good faculty, education, and placement opportunities. Students can choose on their discretion and preference.