Colorado University Ties Up With Pune-based B-School

Pune: University of Colorado, US, ties up with the Pune based Europe Asia Business School (EABS) and academic service provider Global Talent Track (GTT). The collaboration intends at setting up a centre for services excellence that will offer advanced study programmes in the infotech (IT) and management fields.

As per sources, the EABS, which has campuses in Pune and Mumbai, was founded by Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar Technologies and Chairman of the CII's IT and ITeS committee. On the other hand, the GTT, which specializes in training students on vocational skills that will help them get ready for the industry jobs, is headed by Uma Ganesh. Moreover, as part of the tripartite arrangement, the centre for services excellence will conduct research as well as offer multi-disciplinary academic programmes in India, starting with an advanced programme in information assurance leading to a masters in engineering from the UCCS and a certificate programme in services marketing.

According to Uma Ganesh this collaboration promises a much-needed global education experience for students, bringing together the best of the academia and the industry of the two nations. He also said that the UCCS has some of the most relevant programmes in IT and Management and also an outstanding programme taught through blended learning for healthcare and nursing and through our new global connect initiative. He said that these are the first of several planned courses that we look forward to customizing and offering, via the centre, to cater to the huge needs in India and Asia.

Further, both the courses have been designed specifically keeping in mind the factors like India's growing economy and the projected growth of sectors related to business, financial services and insurance (BFSI), healthcare and media. These sectors are expected to create over 40 lakh jobs within the next two years. On the other hand, information security and IT risk have emerged as key concerns with the growing IT penetration across the country. Successful participation of the advanced programme offered in India will lead to a masters degree in information assurance, which is offered by the UCCS. The services marketing programme will also enable students to get fee waivers for the fully accredited MBA offered by the UCCS at its campus in Colorado Springs.