Undergraduate Program

At Plaksha, we believe your undergraduate years should be spent exploring before you specialize. You start with a shared foundation (freshmore curriculum) across computing, math, design, economics, and the humanities, and choose your major only in the second year. From your first semester, you work on real problems with real teams. You graduate with both the skills to build and a clear sense of what is worth building.

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Our Philosophy

Designed to create ethical leaders who will leverage technology and social sciences to impact organisations and society. Students are prepared to address the grand challenges of India, the region and the world, by developing the necessary technical depth with the cross-disciplinary knowledge of humanities, arts and social sciences.

Four BTech Degrees

We offer four highly interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees. Each degree is unique, cutting-edge, forward-looking and aligned with the needs of the 21st century and taught by top-notch faculty from across the world.

BTech in Biological Systems Engineering (BSE)
BTech in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence (CSAI)
BTech in Data Science, Economics and Business (DSEB)
BTech in Robotics & Autonomous Systems (RAS)

4-Year Academic Journey

Semesters 1–3

The three-semester freshmore is compulsory for all students. It has an innovative curriculum that begins with a rigorous foundation in mathematics, computing and data science. Students choose their major at the end of the third semester. The curriculum and pedagogy are designed to encourage curiosity, creativity and install a research and innovation mindset.

Semester 4

Major Selection: Students choose their major based on interest and not rank.
Minors: Six minors enable students to explore a second field without switching majors. Minors are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Systems Biology, Computer Science, Economics, Robotics and Tech Entrepreneurship.
Summer Internships: After completing semester four students go for an eight week long summer internship.

Semesters 1–6

Innovation Lab and Grand Challenges (ILGC) studio: Integrated project-based curriculum that runs across six semesters, starting semester one.

Semesters 7 & 8

Electives: Semester seven has elective courses.
Industry Internships: Semester eight has either internship, research or electives.

Student journey

The program has been designed to develop academic depth as well as skill sets and mindsets that will stay with the students through their life, irrespective of the career paths they choose. In each of their 4 years, students will be required to take a few core classes (across disciplines), as well as choose electives in various fields of study.

Year 1: Unlearn, Learn, Relearn

You will embark on an exciting first year where you will unlearn certain old habits (e.g. rote learning), learn new skills and mindsets (e.g. interdisciplinary thinking, maker mindset, teamwork), and rekindle your innate qualities (e.g. curiosity, asking ‘why’, creativity). You will also develop foundational technical, social and humanistic understanding that will be core to every Plakshan.

Year 2: Choose your Path

In the second year, you will continue your process of discovery and play an increasingly active role in charting your journey. You will opt for a major of your choice, and be guided by a faculty advisor in this important decision. Later in the year, you will start to go deeper in your major, and also pick a real-world problem area of your interest.

Year 3: Building Depth

In the third year, you will focus on developing deep expertise in an area, which not only involves building deep knowledge, but also developing the right skill sets to build impactful solutions. You will find yourself connecting the dots through an eclectic mix of classes at the intersection of technology, sciences and liberal arts.

Year 4: Applying your knowledge

This year will be an opportunity to combine your knowledge, passion and skills to go deeper in tackling an inspiring problem area. Working in interdisciplinary teams on a real-world problem at a company, research institution, non-profit or your own start-up, you will also be free to adventure through advanced electives in areas related or unrelated to your major.

Features of the Program

Office of Corporate Partnerships and Careers: The Office of Corporate Partnerships and Careers (CPC) helps in fostering long term, multidimensional and mutually value-adding partnerships with corporates and ensures superlative career outcomes for our students.
Global Opportunities: Global study opportunities, summer schools and international research collaborations.
Grand Challenge Scholars Program: Grand Challenge Scholars Program is a comprehensive initiative comprising curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular elements.
Research Opportunities: Students can do research projects on their own or with faculty.