B.Stat and B.Maths at Indian Statistical Insitiute, Entrance exam clashes with IPU B.Tech exam
2018-01-08Indian Statistical Institute has announced the Entrance Exam 2018 for its premium BSc courses.
Courses offered : B Stat (Hons) at Kolkata and B Math (Hons) at Bengaluru
About Indian Statistical Institute : The Indian Statistical Institute, known widely as ISI, was founded in 1931. Headquartered in Kolkata, it is an Institution of National Importance. Centres of the Institute have come up over the years in other major cities. At present, the Institute has four centres operating at Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Tezpur. In addition, the Institute has a branch at Giridih devoted to agricultural and sociological research and also a network of units at Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune, involved in activities related to Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research. Most of the research and teaching activities of the Institute take place in its headquarters in Kolkata and the four centres.
Intake
(a) B. Stat (H) : 50 (Gen 25, OBC-NCL 14, SC 7, ST 4)
(b) B. Maths (H) : 50 (Gen 25, OBC-NCL 14, SC 7, ST 4)
3% seats will be horizontally reserved (that is, in each category (ST, SC, OBC-NCL and GEN)) for PwD (Persons with disabilities) candidates.
Campus placements : For many years now, the Institute has been running a very proactive on campus placement programme. Under the supervision of a member of the teaching faculty, this programme has been very successful in providing the aspiring students, in the final years of their respective programmes, excellent placement opportunities in some of the leading organisations in various sectors of the industry. Some of the companies that have visited the Institute’s campus for recruitment in the past few years are: AIG, American Express, ANZ, Axis Bank, AB InVeb, AXA Life Insurance, BARC India, BCS Technology, BlackRock, Barclays Shared Services, Capital One, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Crisil, CIBIL, Citi Corp., Cummins India, Deloitte, Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Dunia Finance LLC, Ernst & Young, Envestnet-Yodlee, FICO, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Technology & Services, IBM, ICICI, JP Morgan, KPMG, Mahindra Comviva, Mckinsey, Media.net, Metro, Microsoft, Narayana Hrudayalaya, Novartis, Nielsen, Petrabytes Corporation, RedBus, Reliance, Samsung, Standard Chartered, TCS Analytics, TCS Innovation Lab, United Health Group, Walmart Lab, ZS, Zendrive, etc.
Collaborations : Over the last several years, the Institute has been very actively pursuing institution-level collaboration that has led to Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with a number of universities/academic institutions as well as industrial organisations. These MOUs range from collaborative research to research grants for students/faculty as well as student/faculty exchange programmes. At present, the Institute has MOUs signed with, among others, the following institutions/organisations: National Highway Authority of India, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., EfD Secretariat at UGOT, Silicon Valley Com Foundation, Airport Authority of India, Networks Specified, Ericsson India, American Society for Quality India, IIT Madras, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd., Bridge and Roof Company Ltd., Infosys Ltd., National Research University, Eastern Africa Statistical Training, State University of New York, London School of Economics, BRAC-University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, University of Warwick, Yokohama National University.
Exam date clash : The date of entrance exam for these courses clashes with that of IPU-B.Tech
For detailed information, Check ISI-Stat-Math