M.Tech after B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering

M.Tech Speicalisations in Computer Science
Even after the successful completion of B.Tech programmes and placements getting dull because of the recent economic downturn in India students tend to move for M.Tech either by attending the GATE or othewise.  Career after M.Tech is also promising as there are so many opportunities for the M.Tech graduates in the public sector, industrial sector as well as in the government agencies. After M.Tech, there is a good chance of getting into teaching and research in the academia. Product based companies are also looking for smart students who successfully complete M.Tech. Scope of getting into the public state understakings for centrally funded departments is also more. Organizations like ISRO, DRDO, Department of Information Technology, etc. seek smart graduates provided you are promising. While doing M.Tech, number and quality of research papers published during the course shape your future. The innovative and analytical research assignments done during the M.Tech programme is the path towards your career after the M.Tech graduation.
Following are some of the opportunities after M.Tech

1. Your own company funded by the goverment or any private firm.
2. Teaching and Research
3. Teaching - there are a good number of graduates who wish to be just in teaching with a passion.  They may not be good researchers, but good and excellent teachers.
4. Product based companies based on the specialization done.
5. Government organizations
6. Centrally funded research projects undertaken by centrally funded institutions like IIT, IIIT, NIT etc. as well as top notch private universities.
7. Placements in multi-national companies, based on the specialization - IT, Automotive, Security, etc.

For the computer science aspirants, here are some of the M.Tech specializations:

M.Tech Specializations for CSE / IT Students

Apart from these there are other branches like: Wireless Networks, Remote Sensing, Computational Networking, etc.

Why choose M.Tech in Computer Science

With an amazing growth of internet over the last two decades, it is evident that in future, nearly nothing would be possible in life without internet. Now itself, we can see that mobile phones, gadgets, laptops, etc. have become part of everyday life. The next generation is going to be completely “techie” compared with the present one. Invention of emails, online shopping and similar e-commerce sites paved the way for distributed computing, storing the data in the internet called as “cloud”.  This naturally increased the threat of data security.  Being the data in the internet, it security measures needs to be thought from different dimensions. Networks started with the wired technology, then moved to wireless mode and now it has become mobile.  Communication has become so fast and smooth for a common man with the mobile technologies. Now, it has come to a point where organizations use the algorithms to track user behavior in the internet and then provide the recommended information when a user browses or surf the internet. This has opened up a new horizon of wonderful opportunities for a computer science engineer. Basically, elective courses offered in the final semester / year of each B.Tech programme is based on the area of the interest of the student. Unfortunately, most of the institutions have lot of courses in the curriculum, but very few offer more than 3 courses for a batch.

Security in the internet stays in the top of computer science profession as it has importance at all the levels. Be it a private or government organization, security is now the concern of each and every country. Nuclear attacks are far behind cyber-attacks in the modern time. The development of the software itself needs to be secured in order to make the system and data safe.  When you login to your mail account, send emails, with attachments or sharing the data, you are careful or at least afraid of getting the information leaked or in technical words, “leaked”. Same is the case with most of the social networking sites. So, one of the best and demanding specializations in M.Tech is the security specializations. It could be Wireless Security, Network Security, Cyber Security, Database Security, Computer Security, etc. The specialization is tailored mainly with Algorithms, Mathematics and computer science subjects relevant to the particular specialization.

Big Data Analysis: There are specializations related with analysis of the data flowing through the internet, mainly in the blogs, social networking sites, feedback systems, etc. This is mainly to help the organization to get the trend by learning the behavior of the users over a period of time.  This specialization naturally helps to secure a good position in the social networking companies or organization of similar nature.  It is also learned that e-Commerce sites use the user behavior to provide information about the related products based on the interest of the consumer.  Once this is automated, consumer is alerted about a new product arrival or slash in price, etc.
 
Wireless and Mobile Communication has earned so much of importance in the recent times. One can do everything in the life with the mobile – except the primary things to be done in the morning after waking up! There are specializations that are the combination of Wireless Networks & Security where both are related.
Other than the above, there are specializations like Software Engineering, Algorithms, Image Processing, etc.

M.Tech Specializations offered by IITs in India
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR (IIT KGP)
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY (IITB)
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS (IITM)
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR (IITK)
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DELHI (IITD)
    Computer Graphics, Vision and Multimedia
    Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
    Algorithms and Complexity
    Formal Methods in Software
    Embedded Systems and Architecture
    Software Systems

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI (IITG)
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROORKEE
Information Technology

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HYDERABAD
Computer Science & Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RAJASTHAN
System Science
ICT

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROPAR
Not Available

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INDORE
Not Available

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PATNA
Mathematics & Computing

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GANDHI NAGAR
NIL

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESHWAR
NIL

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, (BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY), VARANASI
Computer Science & Engineering