MCA’s sarcastic tone shouts loud and clear – ‘Do I still exist in this computer science engineering world?’ Students pursuing MCA are unaware of the challenges written in their destiny once the course is completed. Though the MCA degree course is highly valuable and has many benefits in the professional field, graduates have to push a little harder to register their names in the existing competition. Let’s see some serious challenges in the life of an MCA Graduate.
A large number of IT professionals need employment every year.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the Indian job market is fully packed with IT professionals, and more than half of them are computer science graduates. Even engineering students with CSE specialization must strive hard to get a good job offer from a well-reputed company; how could MCA Graduates find a space? This doesn’t mean that this degree holds no value or something. Graduates with sharp and creative technical minds win the race and get good job offers.
Employers usually prefer CSE graduates over MCA degree holders, and they have their mind-set behind this thought process. They may consider computer science engineers as more capable of technical platforms. This is the major challenge faced by people with an MCA degree in the job market.
The competition of MCA Graduates is with B Tech CSE students.
Both B Tech and MCA are valuable degrees, and students gain computer science knowledge and technical skills in both programs. No matter how much we progress in technology and the digital world, human psychology has no certainty. The same applies to the employers of the current time also. It doesn’t matter how far they have come and grown in their businesses; they would prefer computer engineers over MCA graduates, even if an MCA degree holder is capable of the job.
After course completion, they both would be called computer graduates, and their job responsibilities would include – devising modern technologies and improving old and conventional business frameworks with software applications. Not only CSE but there is also a plethora of technical courses that have occupied the employment market in India. Graphic designing courses, web designing and development courses, coding and decoding courses, language courses, etc., are quite popular. Companies hire IT professionals, as per the job requirement, and try their best to spend less in recruiting the best candidates. Ultimately, all that matters is the work; a degree doesn’t count within the job.
Holding the back of good IT stalwarts could be challenging.
IT giants in India are expanding their wings to many sectors in search of the best talent. But, at the same time, they prefer candidates who can fit in their job role at less cost, irrespective of their expertise, past salary, and skills. MCA graduates usually have a high ask as per their talent and a stamp of post-graduation degree. Tech stalwarts like IBM, Amazon, Google, and Facebook provide candidates with the best and most competitive salary packages.
Consider a scenario where an emerging IT company needs a technical expert to handle software-related issues within the business. It would try its best to hire the best and most effective resource. MCA Graduate passing out from a good institute would never pick such a low-salaried job, and others will fill up the vacancy. The gist is that MCA graduates have to make huge efforts to get the back of big IT brands in India and abroad.
MCA is valuable only if done by a reputed college
Though MCA course has a standard curriculum in all colleges and universities, the quality of teaching is something that lays an impact on students’ career growth. Also, employers mainly look at the college’s reputation while hiring MCA candidates. A good college knows the value of good learning. Technical skills cannot be gained through theoretical aspects of learning, practical application is much needed, and the best MCA colleges focus on that. Moreover, an IT professional must have good communication and interpersonal skills, a radiant personality, and out-of-the-box thinking. The faculty and mentors teach all such traits during the course. GLA University, say, for example, is one of the leading private universities in UP. It offers excellent MCA courses and specializations. The department has standard IT equipment, labs, a library, and smart classrooms. GLA has recently received an A+ score from NAAC and is considered one of the best state-private universities in India. The faculty is highly certified and experienced and provides 100% clarity and understanding of the subject to the students. The placements at GLA are impeccable. Last year, it witnessed overall placements of 88%.