University School of Information, Communication and Technology

University School of Information, Communication and Technology
Former name
University School of Information Technology
Type Public
Established 1999 (1999)
Chancellor Najeeb Jung
Vice-Chancellor Anil Kumar Tyagi
Dean C.S. Rai
Location Dwarka, Delhi, India
28°35′42″N 77°01′08″E / 28.595016°N 77.018942°E / 28.595016; 77.018942Coordinates: 28°35′42″N 77°01′08″E / 28.595016°N 77.018942°E / 28.595016; 77.018942
Campus Urban
Affiliations UGC
Website ipu.ac.in/usict/usictmain.htm

University School of Information, Communication and Technology (formerly University School of Information Technology) is a constituent institute of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. The school offers a full-time B.Tech, M.Tech, as well as MCA programs. The admission process is through IPU-CET national level exam in which around 150000 students appear every year(more than 200,000 appeared in 2014).

Admission

Admissions to the 4+2 year B.Tech+M.Tech (Integrated) as well as MCA(SE) program of USICT is done on the basis of merit in an All India Level Common Entrance Test (IPUCET) which is conducted by the university annually.

The students admitted in the 4+2 dual degree course have an option to quit after 4 year B.Tech.

Industry relation

USICT has a memorandum of understanding with CISCO systems, IBM and Intel.[1] USICT is also the Cisco regional academy for northern India.

Student bodies

USICT has following student bodies:

  • SAiNT
  • IEEE Student Branch
  • IETE Student branch
  • TechSpace[2] - Technical Club of USICT

Events and festivals

InfoXpression is the annual festival of the USICT. It was organized by The Students Association of Information Technology (SAInT).In 2016 it was organised by TechSpace.

Neurotrix is the annual technical festival of the IEEE Student Branch.

LeThAc - Learn Think Act - is the annual Open Source Conclave organized by the IEEE Student Branch.

See also

References

  1. http://www.delhieducation.net/Universities/GGSIPU/Schools-Centers.aspx
  2. "ConnectUSS - TechSpace". ConnectUSS, e-Newsletter of GGSIP University. Retrieved 2014-11-06.


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