Verizon India and IIT-Madras announce merit cum means scholarship

CHENNAI: Verizon India has launched a merit cum means scholarship called V PROPEL (V Provide Right Opportunity to Power Enabled Learning) in association with IIT-Madras for meritorious students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue BSc in programming and data science.

VPROPEL aims at supporting meritorious students whose annual family income is less than Rs 1 lakh. Through this scholarship programme, select students will receive financial assistance for four academic terms.

Launched in 2020 by IIT-M’s BSc in programming and data science aims at eliminating barriers of age, discipline or geographic location and provide access to a world-class curriculum to aspirants in programming and data science.

Verizon India is the first corporate to partner with IIT-Madras to support this initiative with an objective to aid the learning journey of students from economically disadvantaged families.

This virtual learning programme will be offered in three different stages – foundation level, diploma level and degree level.

“With this initiative in collaboration with a premier institute like IIT- Madras, we aim to provide a platform for students to build a career in programming and data science which is a future-focussed domain and equip them with the knowledge and skills to become successful data scientists and data engineers of tomorrow,” Vijayaraman Subramanian, MD, Verizon India, said.

“According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, data science is one of the fastest growing sectors that is predicted to create 11.5 million jobs by 2026. The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2022, data analysts and scientists will be the most emerging job roles, globally. Hence, we chose a specialization in programming and data science,” Mahesh Panchagnula, dean (alumni and corporate relations), IIT-Madras, said.

For more details about the course, visit: https://onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in.