Google, Tata Trusts to offer Nanodegree scholarships

Costing 9,800 rupees (US$148) a month, the degrees will take between six and nine months to complete, with lessons from Google instructors based in the United States. Interestingly, Google and Tata Trusts are mutually said to offer 1,000 scholarships to the deserving students of the Nanodegree program.

The pair teamed with Indian conglomerate Tata to offer online technical training courses, focusing on teaching software developers to build apps for Android, the Google-backed mobile operating system. India’s development as a cell phone market, which will bring the following billion on the web, makes it a market that designers must tap forcefully, Google’s top officials managing engineers overall said.

India has the second largest app developer population in the world with three million coders, Google said in a statement.

While, with the launch of this inventive educational program, the company desires to bridge the gap by providing India’s developer community. However, he added, only two per cent of apps built in India feature in the top 1000 apps globally.

The announcement was made on Monday, Sept 21 and this program is the result of a collaboration with Udacity and Tata Trusts. “Through this initiative Tata Trusts helps build the digital ecosystem and stands by its core objective of creating a sustainable difference for empowering communities across the Nation”. Scholarships for the Android Nanodegree are available immediately.

The Udacity Android Nanodegree program is open for enrollment right now.

Perhaps the biggest incentive to Indian devs to enroll and get started is the news that graduates of the Nanodegree program will also be invited to a job fair in early 2016 hosted by Google where they can meet Google and other prospective local employers.

“Udacity’s mission is to democratize education, and India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies”, said Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun in an interview with TechCrunch.

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