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GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Opp. Law Garden, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad-380 006.
Phone: +91 (079)26447636-38, Fax: +91 (079)26445958
Email: glsict@eth.net, Website: www.glsict.org
GLS Institute of Computer Technology is now almost ten years old and was established in 1999 with approval from AICTE and Gujarat University. It is a post-graduate center and offers an MCA program under self-finance scheme besides a BCA program readily available on the campus.

Computer Facilities

The computer laboratories of MCA have been put on a fiber optic backbone with 3Com Superstack Switches and have sharable HP Windows NT, SCO Unix, DS-10 Alpha OpenVMS RISC and Red Hat LINUX servers with all the necessary software packages and host of peripherals such as line printer, laser printer, inkjet printers, scanners, CD writer, DVD writer etc. Out of around 240 Pentium IV nodes, 110 machines are exclusively allocated to MCA programme.

Internet facility is available to all students through two dedicated high speed 1 MBPS DSL connection from VSNL and Exattnet via a Proxy Server.

This laboratory facility is open to students for access on all days including Sundays. It functions in an open shop environment.

Separate Experimental Laboratory is also available to the students for hands-on unscheduled experiments.

Library Facilities

The institute library has rich collection of books on Computer Science, Computer Applications and Information Technology. It has acquired more than 5500 books covering almost all areas of computer science and subscribed to more than 36 national as well as international journals in this discipline. It has also acquired more than 800 CDs containing reference material in digital form. Spacious reading room attached to the library has facility for reading and viewing CDs within the library premises.

Intake and applicable fees

Total number of seats sanctioned are 60. Allocation to Management Quota and the amount of fees for all the categories will be as per the decision of competent authorities. Reservation for SC, ST, SEBC etc. categories will be as per the prevailing rules.

Faculty for this Course

Prof. R. P. Soni (formerly Director of Rollwala Computer Centre, Gujarat University) who has more than 42 years of experience in Computer Science Education as well as IT Management to his credit has been heading this institute. Other distinguished and experienced faculty members are Professor and Director Dr. Bhushan Trivedi (formerly Director of Computer Center, Gujarat Vidyapith), Reader Ms. Jyotika Doshi (formerly Reader in Computer Science at S. K. Patel Institute), Assistant Professor Shri Harshal Arolkar having 10 years of teaching experience, Assistant Professor Ms. Sonal Jain having 9 years of teaching experience, Lecturer Ms. Maitri Jhaveri, Lecturer Mr. Viral Nagori, Lecturer Ms. Urja Patel, Lecturer Ms. Rupal Shah, Lecturer Ms. Zakiya Mallek, Lectuer Ms. Mayurika Sharma and Lectuer Mr. Maxwell Christian. Moreover, Four other Computer Science faculty members of BCA course and well experienced faculty members from other prominent institutes also assist in teaching as visiting faculty. Besides the core faculty, distinguished academicians and professionals from the field are being invited regularly to deliver special talks to the students

Placement in the Industry

Many software companies and industries have started coming for campus interviews. In addition, the institution and the faculty members actively assist the students in choosing and obtaining project assignments in the industry during the studies as well as suitable jobs after completion of the course. As a result, all the pass outs of last three batches (2006, 2007 and 2008) have been well placed in the industry. It is noteworthy that renowned multinational software companies based in metropolitan cities outside Gujarat have recruited several of the students from this institute.

List of some of the major companies where our students are currently working
BellSouth Corp. Atlanta, USA.
Hewlett Packard , Banglore.
Infosys Technologies Ltd , Banglore.
Oracle India (P) Ltd, Bangalore.
Patni Computer Systems, Chennai.
Accenture, Mumbai.
Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai.
Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai.
Tata Interactive Systems, Mumbai.
Tata Consultancy Services, Ahmedabad.
Tata Telecom Ltd. Gandhinagar.
Patni Computer Systems, Gandhinagar.
Argusoft India Ltd.,Gandhinagar.
Ashima Industries Ltd , Ahmedabad.
Net4Nuts, Ahmedabad.
VMF Softtech Ltd., Ahmedabad.
Elegant Microweb,Ahmedabad.
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai.
Mahindra British Telecom, Pune.
Wipro Technologies, Pune.
Zensar Technologies, Pune.
 
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Website last updated on 27th November, 2009