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Sharda University
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BCA at
Sharda University

A technology-first BCA program with cutting-edge subjects in Generative AI, Full-Stack Development, Machine Learning, Data Science, Cloud and Cyber Security - building real-world developers from Day 1.

3 Years · 6 SemestersNAAC A+ AccreditedGreater Noida Campus
Duration
3 Years
Semesters
6
Eligibility
Class 12
Intake
July/Aug
Mode
Full-Time
Campus
Gr. Noida

Program Overview

Build the Future.
One Line of Code at a Time.

Web foundations and AI literacy from Semester 1
Data structures, Java, DBMS & SQL in Year 1
Full-stack engineering, networks & analytics in Semester 3
Applied ML, cloud, DevOps & secure coding in Semester 4
Six specialisations, with an industry internship / live project, from Semester 5
Specialisation capstone, portfolio & viva in Semester 6
NIRF #87 · THE World 601–800 · QS South Asia #195 ranked university
34,000+ alumni · 95+ nationalities · 330+ global MOUs · 7,818 scholarships
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Program Snapshot

Hands-on coding from Day 1 - real projects, real tools, real outcomes.

Your Credential

An industry-recognised BCA degree awaits you.

A degree from Sharda Online is recognised globally, and is equivalent to an on-campus program from Sharda University — the same certificate, the same grade card, the same UGC-entitled recognition.

UGC-entitled degreeNAAC A+ accredited
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Curriculum

BCA 6-Semester Curriculum

Select a specialisation to view its tailored semester-by-semester curriculum.

1

Year 1 · Computing Core, Web Foundations & AI Literacy

Sem 1 & Sem 2 · 3 projects

Semester 1
20 Cr
  • Computational Thinking & Problem Solving4
  • Computer Systems, Digital Logic & Architecture3
  • Web Foundations: HTML, CSS & JavaScript3
  • Mathematics for Computing I: Logic, Sets & Discrete Structures3
  • Communication & Professional Skills I2
  • Environmental Sustainability, Human Values & Green Computing2
  • AI Literacy, Responsible Technology & Data Privacy3
Semester 2
20 Cr
  • Data Structures4
  • Object-Oriented Programming with Java4
  • Database Management Systems & SQL4
  • Mathematics for Computing II: Statistics, Probability & Linear Algebra Essentials3
  • Operating Systems (Unix/Linux & Shell Programming)3
  • Communication & Professional Skills II2
Core Subjects
Programming & Development
Mathematics & AI Foundation
Database & Systems
Emerging Tech
Business & Product
Other
2

Year 2 · Networks, Full-Stack Engineering, Cloud & Applied ML

Sem 3 & Sem 4 · 3 projects

Semester 3
20 Cr
  • Computer Networks & Data Security Fundamentals3
  • Software Engineering3
  • Frontend Application Development4
  • Backend Development & REST API Engineering4
  • Data Analytics & Visualisation3
  • UI/UX Design3
Semester 4
20 Cr
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms (with Lab)4
  • Applied Machine Learning Foundations4
  • Cloud Computing & DevOps Foundations4
  • Cybersecurity Fundamentals3
  • Advanced Databases & Datawarehousing3
  • IT Project Management2
Core Subjects
Programming & Development
Mathematics & AI Foundation
Database & Systems
Emerging Tech
Business & Product
Other
3

Year 3 · Internship, Specialisation & Industry Capstone

Sem 5 & Sem 6 · 3 projects

Semester 5
Internship20 Cr
  • DevOps & Project Delivery3
  • Career Readiness, Aptitude & Workplace Communication2
  • Industry Internship/Live Project3
  • Advanced Machine Learning4
  • Deep Learning & Computer Vision4
  • Natural Language Processing & Transformer Foundations4
Semester 6
20 Cr
  • Technology Entrepreneurship, Product Management & Leadership2
  • Specialisation Capstone/Portfolio6
  • Generative AI Application Engineering4
  • Agentic AI4
  • AI Deployment, Governance & Product Engineering4
Core Subjects
Programming & Development
Mathematics & AI Foundation
Database & Systems
Emerging Tech
Business & Product
Other

Fees & Scholarships

Transparent Fee Structure

Everything you'll pay for the 3-year BCA program: tuition plus one-time registration and annual examination charges. No hidden costs.

Domestic Students

Indian Nationals

Total Program Fee

₹1,35,000

Per Semester

₹22,500

Per Year

₹45,000

No Cost EMI available on education loans availed by domestic students

International Students

Foreign Nationals

Total Program Fee

$2,100

Per Semester

$350

Per Year

$700

Registration & Exam Fees

One-time & annual charges

Domestic

· Indian Nationals

Registration₹ 500
Exam / Year₹ 3,500

SAARC

· SAARC Countries

Registration₹ 1,000
Exam / Year₹ 5,000

International

· Other Countries

Registration$ 10
Exam / Year$ 60

Also Offered

Campus Immersion Fees

Same the 3-year BCA program, taught online through the week with scheduled visits to the Greater Noida campus. Domestic students only.

Per Semester

₹55,000

Per Year

₹1,10,000

Total

₹3,30,000

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Syllabus FAQs

Questions about the BCA curriculum

Semesters 1 to 4 are common to every track and build the computing core. Specialisation courses begin in Semester 5 and continue through Semester 6, where three specialisation subjects sit alongside the shared professional core - internship, DevOps and career readiness in Semester 5; entrepreneurship and the capstone in Semester 6.

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  • 1.A function declares a return type, name, parameters and body.
  • 2.Recursion = a function calling itself on a smaller problem until a base case.
  • 3.The factorial example shows a base case (n==0) and a recursive case (n × f(n−1)).
  • 4.Each recursive call adds a stack frame - beware of deep recursion.
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int factorial(int n) {
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  • Recursion calls itself with smaller input
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What You'll Master

Technologies & Skills You'll Build

Programming

Programming

+1
Java
Python
TypeScript
Bash & Shell
Jupyter
Web & Mobile

Web & Mobile

+1
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
React
Node.js
Data & AI

Data & AI

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Data Structures
DBMS
SQL
MongoDB
Machine Learning
Infrastructure

Infrastructure

+1
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Git & GitHub
Cyber Security

Why Sharda BCA

Four Things That Set Us Apart

Specialisations

Specialisations

6 Specialisations
6 Subjects Each

Choose your lens - Generative AI, Data Science, MLOps, Cyber Security, Cloud or Full-Stack. A BCA genuinely custom-built for your career.

Curriculum

Curriculum

Product-First
Curriculum

By Year 3, your GitHub is your transcript.

Labs

Labs

GPU Labs
from Day 1

Outcomes

Outcomes

90%+
Placement

Life at Sharda

Campus Immersion

Experience the perfect blend of traditional and digital learning environments.

Events & Fests

Student Life

Events & Fests

Annual fests, tech conclaves, cultural events & departmental competitions.

Tech Labs

Infrastructure

Tech Labs

State-of-the-art computing labs with industry-grade hardware & software.

Smart Campus

Digital Campus

Smart Campus

Wi-Fi enabled campus with cloud infrastructure & digital learning tools.

Industry Connect

Partnerships

Industry Connect

Regular industry interactions, company visits & collaborative projects.

Hackathons

Innovation

Hackathons

Annual coding contests, build sprints & innovation challenges.

Library

Knowledge

Library

Digital & physical resources for research and learning.

Placement Highlights

Placement Highlights 2024

Our BCA graduates are placed at leading tech companies across India with internship support, technical interviews, and project-based preparation.

90%
Placement Rate
₹8 LPA
Average Package
₹28 LPA
Highest Package
150+
Recruiting Companies
TCS
Infosys
Wipro
HCL
Accenture
Capgemini
Cognizant
Tech Mahindra
TCS
Infosys
Wipro
HCL
Accenture
Capgemini
Cognizant
Tech Mahindra
IBM
Oracle
Mphasis
Mindtree
Freshworks
Zoho
Razorpay
Flipkart
IBM
Oracle
Mphasis
Mindtree
Freshworks
Zoho
Razorpay
Flipkart

600+ recruiters · ₹1.62 Cr highest package · 7,818 scholarships (₹44.79 Cr)

Career Outcomes

Tech Careers That Await You

Salary ranges based on 2024 placement data. Bar shows relative to highest BCA package (₹28 LPA).

Most Hired Role
Full Stack Developer
₹5–18 LPA
82% of highest package
High Demand
Mobile App Developer
₹5–16 LPA
73% of highest package
Rapidly Growing
Data Analyst
₹5–15 LPA
68% of highest package
Highest Package
ML Engineer
₹8–22 LPA
100% of highest package
Future-Proof Career
Cloud Engineer
₹7–20 LPA
91% of highest package
Critical Demand
Cyber Security Analyst
₹6–18 LPA
82% of highest package
Student Stories

What Our Graduates Say

Real accounts from BCA graduates now building products at India's top tech companies.

TCS

Building and shipping real full-stack products from Semester 3 gave me skills that most CS graduates from 4-year programs simply didn't have. TCS hired me directly into their AI Practice - that was the BCA opening doors a BTech usually does.

Akshat Gupta

Akshat Gupta

BCA Full-Stack Development

AI Engineer · Class of 2024

Wipro

We had actual penetration testing labs from the second year. That hands-on time is why I cleared three certifications before graduation and walked straight into an Information Security role at Wipro.

Meera Iyer

Meera Iyer

BCA Cyber Security

Security Analyst · Class of 2024

Startup Founder

The build sprint culture here is real. My team shipped a working web app in Semester 2. It's now live on the Play Store. No other BCA program would have made that happen.

Rohan Singh

Rohan Singh

BCA Full-Stack Development

CEO · Class of 2023

Infosys

The cloud computing specialization prepared me for AWS certification. I cleared all three levels before graduating and got placed in Infosys as a Cloud Solutions Architect with a 12 LPA package.

Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma

BCA Cloud Computing

Cloud Architect · Class of 2024

Flipkart

The MLOps track at Sharda BCA was ahead of its time. We deployed and monitored real models, not just notebooks. Now I'm building recommendation systems at Flipkart that serve millions of users daily.

Arjun Malhotra

Arjun Malhotra

BCA MLOps & AI Engineering

ML Engineer · Class of 2023

Tech Startup

The AI & Generative AI specialisation was a game-changer - LLMs, RAG and agentic systems, all hands-on. I'm now working on LLM fine-tuning at a Silicon Valley startup, all thanks to the foundation I got in the BCA program.

Sneha Reddy

Sneha Reddy

BCA AI & Generative AI

AI Researcher · Class of 2024

Razorpay

The Data Science & Big Data track taught me to think beyond just coding. Statistical inference and business intelligence are what helped me land a Product Analyst role at Razorpay straight out of college.

Vikram Joshi

Vikram Joshi

BCA Data Science & Big Data

Product Analyst · Class of 2023

Mphasis

The Full-Stack track gave me real production engineering - agile sprints, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments. By Year 3 I was shipping microservices, which is exactly what landed me an SDE role straight after graduation.

Ananya Patel

Ananya Patel

BCA Full-Stack Development

Software Engineer · Class of 2024

TCS

Building and shipping real full-stack products from Semester 3 gave me skills that most CS graduates from 4-year programs simply didn't have. TCS hired me directly into their AI Practice - that was the BCA opening doors a BTech usually does.

Akshat Gupta

Akshat Gupta

BCA Full-Stack Development

AI Engineer · Class of 2024

Wipro

We had actual penetration testing labs from the second year. That hands-on time is why I cleared three certifications before graduation and walked straight into an Information Security role at Wipro.

Meera Iyer

Meera Iyer

BCA Cyber Security

Security Analyst · Class of 2024

Startup Founder

The build sprint culture here is real. My team shipped a working web app in Semester 2. It's now live on the Play Store. No other BCA program would have made that happen.

Rohan Singh

Rohan Singh

BCA Full-Stack Development

CEO · Class of 2023

Infosys

The cloud computing specialization prepared me for AWS certification. I cleared all three levels before graduating and got placed in Infosys as a Cloud Solutions Architect with a 12 LPA package.

Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma

BCA Cloud Computing

Cloud Architect · Class of 2024

Flipkart

The MLOps track at Sharda BCA was ahead of its time. We deployed and monitored real models, not just notebooks. Now I'm building recommendation systems at Flipkart that serve millions of users daily.

Arjun Malhotra

Arjun Malhotra

BCA MLOps & AI Engineering

ML Engineer · Class of 2023

Tech Startup

The AI & Generative AI specialisation was a game-changer - LLMs, RAG and agentic systems, all hands-on. I'm now working on LLM fine-tuning at a Silicon Valley startup, all thanks to the foundation I got in the BCA program.

Sneha Reddy

Sneha Reddy

BCA AI & Generative AI

AI Researcher · Class of 2024

Razorpay

The Data Science & Big Data track taught me to think beyond just coding. Statistical inference and business intelligence are what helped me land a Product Analyst role at Razorpay straight out of college.

Vikram Joshi

Vikram Joshi

BCA Data Science & Big Data

Product Analyst · Class of 2023

Mphasis

The Full-Stack track gave me real production engineering - agile sprints, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments. By Year 3 I was shipping microservices, which is exactly what landed me an SDE role straight after graduation.

Ananya Patel

Ananya Patel

BCA Full-Stack Development

Software Engineer · Class of 2024

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