Sona College of of Technology faculty tops NPTEL exam by IITs, IISc

NEW DELHI: Sona College of Technology has secured first rank for the third consecutive time in the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) exam July 2022 session. Faculty from 5,130 colleges participated in the NPTEL July exam.

“The combined performance of its students and faculty stands at No 17, nationally. This is the eighth time that the college finds its name on the ‘AA’ rating – the rating awarded to colleges in the top 11-50 ranking in the nation,” the official statement said.

The NIRF-ranked Sona College is an autonomous institution under Anna University. It secured the second position, based on combined performance of its students and faculty, among all engineering college local chapters in Tamil Nadu.

The NPTEL exam is conducted by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. It also offers various online courses on a variety of technology areas.

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The Sona NPTEL local chapter, which is active since 2016, has been facilitating the NPTEL technology courses, assignments and examinations biannually. The BE, BTech, MCA and MBA students of the college take at least one NPTEL exam each in their second or third year, the college said.

Vice-chairman of Sona Group of Education Institutions Chocko Valliappa said: “The Sona College finds NPTEL programs valuable for its faculty in imbibing knowledge and skills in advanced technology areas and benchmarking against the very best. Since NPTEL exams allow only the very best to clear, we have mandated all faculty members clear NPTEL courses to prepare industry-ready graduates.”

SRR Senthil Kumar, principal of Sona College of Technology said: “NPTEL programs enable our students and faculty to gain valuable skills through programs designed and delivered by experienced IIT and IISc faculty. And the top rankings achieved by Sona faculty help establish their superiority in a competitive benchmark nationally.”

“Three students of Sona College of Technology (Information Technology, AI & Data Sciences, and Electronics and Communication Engineering branches) have been accepted to undergo a 3-month internship at IIT Kharagpur through their NPTEL performance,” Senthil Kumar added.