Lovely Professional University (LPU), a well-established, private educational group in India, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ‘Informatica’- the leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management, to provide support for curriculum development and training.This MoU is a step towards the continuous pursuit of LPU to deliver academic excellence and international exposure to the latest in technology for its students. The MoU was signed by Mr. Krishna Narasimhan, Managing Director, India and Vice President, Global Customer Support, Informatica and LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal, at LPU campus in Jalandhar.As part of the MoU, LPU will add two electives on ‘Data Integration’ and ‘Data Quality’ to its third-year B Tech Computer Science Engineering Course. The course training material and curriculum will be developed and delivered by ‘Informatica’ through the Informatica University Training Program (IUTP). LPU students completing these electives may have the opportunity to intern with ‘Informatica’ in India, and may also be considered for full-time positions on completion of their degree course. Hiring will be as per Informatica’s requirements.As the leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management, ‘Informatica’ enables companies to fuel innovation, become more agile, and realize new growth opportunities- resulting in intelligent market disruptions.
“At ‘Informatica’, we are passionate about the power of data to transform companies and accelerate careers. We are delighted to partner with LPU to build a curriculum to help the talent pool of future engineers succeed in their careers. Our electives will give students valuable hands-on experience with leading-edge technology in cloud data management,” said Mr Krishna Narasimhan, Managing Director, India and Vice President, Global Customer Support, Informatica.“We are happy to partner with ‘Informatica’, which will enable LPU students to learn about complex data challenges and transform big ideas into realities. This MoU will sharpen our students’ intellect in solving global technology challenges. This is a world-class opportunity, as Informatica will provide students an insight into emerging areas in technology to become agile, realize growth opportunities, and become innovators,” said Mr Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, Lovely Professional University
About Lovely Professional University (LPU):
Situated in Phagwara (Punjab), Lovely Professional University is the largest university of the country in terms of on-campus students. More than 25,000 full time students are studying in 200+ professional programmes in 40+ disciplines at LPU. LPU is credited as one of the strongest education brand of India in one of the latest Economic Times article. With students from 70+ countries and all across India, LPU unarguably has the most diverse student population. LPU has been working very closely with the industry and has tie-ups with giants like Google, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Informatica and many more to have center of excellence as well as their certifications as part of the curriculum. With 200 global tie-ups with universities and faculty from all across the globe, one can really see the global ambitions of LPU, which is to be among the top 200 universities of the world by 2025.