Are you interested in computer science and making an excellent tech career in today’s world? Then you came up in the right place. I am sorry for those people who are not from Nepal. This article is meant to help Nepali students make a tech career through an academic degree.
It doesn’t mean that without a degree, a person can’t make a tech career.
It’s possible through a self-taught background. It requires an insane amount of dedication to get through it. I have met many incredible people without having a degree and have senior-level positions at tech companies.
Some of you might be confused about what CSIT is all about. Why do I need to pursue a bachelor’s degree after high school? Some might never heard before.
CSIT is a four-year Computer Science and Information Technology degree provided by Tribhuvan University. It’s a STEM degree where the backbone lies in Computer science concepts. The science behind computing technology like AI, programming, virtual reality, and much more.
Features of CSIT !!!
- Latest and frequently updated course required for a tech career.
- International acceptance
- Extensive career opportunities
- Focus on job-oriented skills in the course as well
- More freedom to learn and upgrade your tech skills.
Jobs and career in CSIT
Well, you might know that technology is still removing a lot of jobs in today’s world. In the same way, it comes with job opportunities and others. CSIT has a great scope in the present era and future too. But to catch up on the opportunities, you must have some requirements like soft and hard skills. Here are the jobs that you can have during a degree and after graduation.
- Software Engineer
- Junior Cloud Engineer
- Research Assistant
- Computer scientist
- Network Engineer
- Algorithmist
- IT officer (Both government and private) and Manager
- System Administrator
- Cyber Security Expert
- System Analyst and System engineer
- Data Scientist
- Technical writer
- Database Administrator
- Lecturer
Eligibility
CSIT is a scientific course. Candidates must go through high school from the science faculty. Sorry for management and Arts, you cannot be enrolled. This is how Nepal education validates based on some choices made by teenagers during the high school. This should be improved. Having said that you can still have technical skills and other computing degrees like BIT, BIM, and many more. You must have scored a minimum grade of C in both classes 11 and 12. For A levels, you must score a grade of D in general science.
What are the documents needed to enroll in CSIT?
- SEE Mark sheet( class 10)
- SEE Certificate
- SEE Character Certificate
- Grade 11 Mark Sheet
- Grade 12 Mark Sheet
- High School(+2) Transcript from NEB
- Migration Certificate from NEB
- Provisional Certificate from NEB
If the result of grade 12 is not published by the time, fill out the form.
Go with documents up to #4. Add the documents from #5 to #8 after the result is out. But in the end, you must submit all the documents.
Things that asked in CSIT entrance
Well, there is good news. The good news is that entrance preparation for this degree is optional (it’s not compulsory). If your academic career during high school is not good at all. I recommend you go through the entrance preparation class. Still, I said, it’s all up to you whether you want to take the preparation class or not.
The syllabus of the entrance includes 100 objective questions with four categories. There is no negative marking in questions too. I have shared the details on the syllabus of CSIT entrance syllabus.
Focus on key points and concepts.
To fill up the form for CSIT, you can go to any TU-affiliated college. It can be any private or government college that offers a CSIT course. The actual fee to fill up the form is about Rs.1200 (might increase in the future). But affiliate colleges might take extra charges too.
Enrolling in CSIT college?
The merit list is published based on your marks, which you scored on the entrance exam. Based on the merit list, students to procedure for the respective colleges. It has the same whole process as IOE.
I still prefer you to fill up the form from the government college unless you didn’t get time to do it there to get on the merit list. To get admission to a government college, you must be on the merit list. If you take the form from a private college, it works on the admission process, but there will be less chance to enroll in a government college.
Syllabus
After high school, you must look out for the syllabus of the degree in which you are interested. CSIT contains a minimum of 126 credit hours. Remember I said minimal you can still add more credit hours by studying more subjects and taking exams. You will learn the fundamentals of Computer Science concepts within six semesters. The last semester is for filling industry gap skills. In the 7th semester, you must do a significant project with 100 marks, and in the 8th semester, you must do an internship in tech companies, including 200 marks.
- Computer science fundamentals contain 75 credit hours.
- Natural science includes six credit hours.
- Mathematics includes 12 credit hours.
- English has three credit hours.
- Social science and management contain six credit hours.
- Computer science and Information Technology includes 15 credit hours.
- Internship and Project have nine credit hours.
Status of CSIT and its graduates
In the past, the management of CSIT was horrible, and still improving and doing better. Results were published within 3-5 months after you took that exam. The community is growing and supported by seniors too. The status is good right now.
- More than 3000 site graduates
- Senior/junior software developers, engineers, and designers.
- Fullstack developers(web/mobile)
- QA engineers
- Bank and ISP as a network engineer and system administrator
- Startup
- Researcher and Foreign university
- and many more.
Challenges
During Journey
- The unusual fee structure in a private college.
- Huge lack of teachers outside of the valley.
- Lack of university and industry coordination unless you go through yourself and only a few colleges solved this problem.
- Lack of mini-projects during the semester ends unless you do them by yourself.
- There is a lack of motivation from the university for the student to build a tech career. Everything depends upon students more, and the student must follow their responsibilities and their goals.
- Research opportunities are not given to CS students, which are necessary skills to become a researcher for additional time.
- The calendar system is not managed and well defined.
- Valley-oriented opportunities for the recent graduate either at an internship, research, graduate job, events, and many more.
Mini or pet project is a must for students to upgrade their knowledge and skills.
Conclusion
If you are in Nepal to land a tech job with an academic degree, then I prefer you to take BSc CSIT. BSc CSIT is an excellent course. Yeah, many problems need to be resolved. It is still getting on solving those problems related to it. If you are curious about learning technology, the CSIT course might be a good option.
If this course doesn’t fit or interest you, please avoid studying this course. It’s going to be hard if you seek to explore with the intention of a high income. Learn something that you are passionate about. I hope you got an insightful message after reading this article.