Location: DSEU Dwarka Campus
Number of Seats: 100
- Overview
- About the Program
- DSEU & NavGurukul
- Minimum Eligibility
- Application Procedure
- Assessment Procedure
- Videos
NavGurukul was started in 2016 by Abhishek Gupta (IIT-D Alumnus) & Rishabh Verma (Self taught Programmer), NavGurukul runs a one-year fully-funded residential course for students from underserved and diverse communities. NavGurukul’s vision is to create alternatives to colleges to challenge inequality in Higher education and create Coders, Critical thinkers, and Changemakers. The aim of the organization is to reach the most underserved girls, denied of opportunities and resources and expose them to an equitable and independent future.
It is a non-profit organisation helping students from underprivileged sections of society become financially independent. They teach students for free through their residential program and guarantee them a well-paying software engineering job. The students have been employed in companies like Mindtree, ThoughtWorks, and Unacademy. Their work has been featured in Forbes, TOI and today they are supported by Microsoft, Accenture, KPMG, N/Core amongst others.
NavGurukul has partnered with 9 Government bodies including Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU), Punjab, Tripura, and Odisha Governments and 100+ NGOs to identify underserved students who can benefit the most from the program.
For more than five years, NavGurukul has been offering low-cost residential spaces for students from diverse backgrounds to come and learn Software Programming, using a vernacular curriculum in a financially sustainable setup. With the capacity of 660 students in their campuses in Dharamshala, Bangalore, Sarjapur and Pune, they run a one-year residential course free of cost for the Boys/girls/women/trans women with guaranteed jobs that pay them 20,000 INR per month or more. These courses are a replacement for traditional Engineering courses which costs 10x and consumes 4x time, with 700% better results. More than 155 students have been placed in 60+ Startups & SMEs with an average salary of INR 3.1 Lacs per annum.
The course covers three different boot camps across 18 different milestones. Students progress on each milestone with the help of a mentor who also evaluates the depth of understanding for a particular milestone. The last four milestones focus on building projects that are production-ready so that students are suited to contribute to their workplaces from day one.
NavGurukul works with 60+ placement partners across 10 different cities across India who hire student graduates. All the graduates get placed within two weeks of completion of the course. This is achieved by preparing them rigorously before interviews take place in the companies.
Accenture, Microsoft, KPMG, Social Alpha, NCore, Wingify, Dunnhumby and DCX Technologies are a few of the major donors. Most of the donors are working in the IT sector and recognise the need for training women for IT jobs, given their gross underrepresentation in the sector.
In collaboration with Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU), NavGurukul is opening a centre in the Dwarka campus for 100 girls/women/trans-women from Delhi in December’21. It is a 20-month of a fully-funded residential training program on Software Programming which provides a guaranteed job of Rs. 20000/month as a starting salary after successful completion of the program. Student’s stay, food, laptop and internet facilities would be provided and they would just need to take care of their personal and medical expenses. Students would also be receiving certification of “Advance Diploma on Software Programming” after successful completion of the course. With the training on Software Programming, students will also be trained in English communication, personality development, leadership skills.
The bare minimum criteria to join the program is 10th standard pass and age between 17-30 irrespective of the stream/course students are from. There will be a 4-stage online assessment in which students would be assessed in basic mathematics (Class 6th-8th level), basic spoken English, Algebra (Class 7th-10th level), and their privileges & fitment on the course. Each round would be shortlisting round, final offer letter with the required documents would be shared post final selection over an email to students.
- The candidate should be class 10th pass
- The candidate should be between the age bracket of 17-30 years
- The candidate should be a female or a trans-women
- The candidate has to fill the Registration Form on DSEU Website.
- After filling the Registration form, the candidate will receive a test link
- The candidate will have to undertake a 4 stage online assessment
- The selected candidates will be notified duly
