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Build software and work with data

Writing programs, designing systems that handle scale, and working with data. One of the few fields where what you have built matters as much as where you studied.

What the work actually is

  • Writing and reading a great deal of code, most of it written by other people
  • Working out why a system behaves differently in reality than it did in testing
  • Designing so that the next change is possible without starting again

Subjects that keep this open

  • Mathematics
  • Computer Science
  • Physics

Guidance, not a rule. Each route publishes its own subject requirements, and those are what count.

4 recorded routes

Every way in that we have mapped

Ordered by when you can start, not by how well known they are — so the route that begins after Class 10 comes first.

  1. After Class 10Open entry, or admission on Class 10 or 12 marks

    Computer science diploma after Class 10, then a degree by lateral entry

    1. Step 1. Take a polytechnic diploma in computer science or information technology after Class 10.
    2. Step 2. Work as a developer or technician, or enter the second year of a B.Tech through lateral entry.

    Software is the field where what you have actually built counts for most. Starting to build two years earlier is not a consolation prize.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    A university’s own entrance test

    1. Step 1. Sit BITSAT.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to BITS Pilani, Goa or Hyderabad on its own rules.

    A completely separate gate from JEE, with a different paper and a different cohort.

    Where to check this

  3. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    CUET-UG, then a B.Sc or B.C.A. at a central university

    1. Step 1. Sit CUET-UG in the subjects the course requires.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to a central or participating university’s three-year degree rather than a four-year B.Tech.

    A science degree rather than an engineering one. For software work specifically, employers are far more interested in what you can build than in which of the two you hold.

    Where to check this

  4. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    JEE Main, then computer science at an NIT or IIIT

    1. Step 1. Sit JEE Main in Class 12.
    2. Step 2. Computer science is usually the highest-demand branch, so it closes at a higher rank than the institute as a whole.

    The branch, not only the institute, decides whether this route is open at a given rank.

    Where to check this

Before you plan around any of these

Every route above links to the body that runs it. Eligibility, age limits, medical standards, subject requirements and dates are set by those bodies and change between cycles — we record what the route is and where to check it, and we do not track its dates. Read the official page before you decide anything.

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