Why choosing Bangalore for your professional studies?

Bangalore is also called as garden city and is the capital of the Karnataka, which is situated at about 1000 meters above sea level; it is known for its salubrious climate where temperatures remain moderate throughout the year. It is also known as the Silicon Valley of India because of its position as the nation's leading IT exporter. It is a hub for India's information technology sector because of its well-recognized engineering colleges and research institutions. There are numerous public sector heavy industries, technology companies, aerospace, telecommunications, and defence organisations located in the city.  Hence most of the students prefer to take up courses in recognized colleges in Bangalore and settle here mainly because of major IT- companies situated in the city. 

In India, Bangalore is the engineers’ Mecca. It offers growth, options and a community of like-minded people hence it is undoubtedly the largest base in terms of IT companies, opportunities and an existing engineering population.

Seven out of ten engineering students prefer the city of Bangalore as their first work place mainly because Bangalore is famous for its IT Hub image and also for the lifestyle. As per the survey, next best cities are Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai and Pune.

Bangalore is the No.1 City of IT hub, with over 50% of the IT companies located in the city, and many of the largest IT companies are formed and headquartered in Bangalore. The IT industry has two prime elements is IT Services and BPO, and the growth in the sector assists to growth in the GDP, employment and Exports. Bangalore is the main centre for Job opportunity for domestic and foreign peoples and hence it is considered as the leading outsourcing destinations in the world. Recently the city has become an international centre for software R&D as well. 

Bangalore is top of the mind for many youngsters when it comes to education. With some of the premier institutions located here and the quality education offered, it has become a favourite educational destination for students. In Bangalore, there are many professional colleges which provide various undergraduate i.e. UG and postgraduate i.e. PG courses namely B.E, B.Tech, MCA, MBA, and M.Tech etc. There are many multinational companies which are in Bangalore who hire students from varied professions. Even a lot of industries are there in Bangalore, which offer good learning experience. As compared to the past, Bangalore has expanded its IT hub spreading all over the city. Bangalore was a normal city about 10 years ago and the IT sectors varied Bangalore as the main economic centre in India. Today, Bangalore is recognized as the Silicon Valley of India and leads 33% of Indian IT Exports and the companies based in Bangalore exports IT services to around the world.

Some of the top IT companies in Bangalore are Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Wipro Technologies i.e. Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, Tech Mahindra Ltd, MphasiS Ltd, Patni Computer Systems Ltd, Mind Tree Ltd, Sonata Software Ltd and many more.

This article has been written by Col (Retd.) NPR Babu, Dir (Academics) of SCT Institute of Technology. The institute is one of the good Engineering Colleges in Bangalore.