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Academic Initiative

IBM Academic Initiative Providing In demand skills for an On Demand world Learn more

Academic Initiative

IBM Academic Initiative is an innovative program to partner with colleges and universities worldwide to better educate millions of students for a more skilled and competitive IT workforce. The program offers a broad range of resources and support to students, faculty and institutions, aiming to provide skills in open standards, critical in a fast-paced and ever-changing IT industry.
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  • Training and Certification

    IT professional certification has become an expectation while hiring. Keeping that in mind, IBM Academic Initiative program offers software training and professional certification for students from engineering and MCA colleges. Learn more

  • The Great Mind Challenge 2009

    Featured in the Limca book of Records as "the biggest software development contest run across engineering colleges in India", TGMC is back! Learn more

  • Faculty Corner

    No matter what Information Technology topic you are teaching, IBM offers a wide range of products and solutions that can help you enhance your curriculum.Learn more

  • IBM Software Center of Excellence

    Equip your college with the power of cutting edge software from IBM. Ask here for a Center of Excellence.Learn more

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Academic Initiative members can get full-version software and professionally developed courseware...at no charge!