Career Opportunities in MCA
A Software Engineer Designs, Develops and Maintains software applications. The code that a Software Engineer is generally called programs. Software Engineers start their career as an Entry Level Trainee Programmer and then move on as a Programmer, Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, and Senior Systems Analyst and then become a Consultant. The booming IT Sector has brought in a number of openings, particularly in the Tier I and Tier II cities.
The top level IT companies and consultancy firms like TCS, Wipro, IBM, Oracle etc offers great job opportunities to a candidate with an MCA degree. In this era of computers the candidates find various opportunities in large corporations having an internal systems department. They can even approach any IT company as a system developer and for various other roles.
A student studying MCA can become a Software Programmer or Software Tester or Software Engineer or Software Developer or Systems Analyst or Software Application Architect or Software Consultant. He / she has to choose their career which is very interest to them.
Educational Requirements :
BCA / B.Sc.(CS) / BIT or BE/BTech or MSc (Computer Science / Information Technology / Software Engineering) / MCA / MCS or ME/MTech (Computer Science / Information Technology / Software Engineering). While candidates doing the courses under Distance Education / Open University mode are eligible to become a Software Engineer, large organizations prefer students doing a regular course. The list of courses presented here is partial and is not comprehensive. Students of various other courses will also be eligible to become a Software Engineer.
Remuneration :
Young Indian IT professionals in India earn more than 200 per cent the average salary than any other profession earns. This, together with salaries rising about 20 per cent a year on average, they are most likely to see their salaries jump above any other professional in the country right now.
In the last few years, people have left their jobs in other engineering streams and joined the software field. In fact, by 2012 the demand and supply gap is going to be as wide as half a million jobs.
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