International Institute of Information Technology - IIIT Hyderabad Courses

The Breadth Qualifiers consists of two parts, as follows.

Part I: Breadth Course Qualification: It consists of clearing the corresponding courses from both the Foundation and Application areas (see details below)

Part II: Comprehensive Exam: An oral exam meant to test the student?s capacity to do research, problem solving ability.

Part I: Breadth Course Qualification

Note:

• A student has to take and clear two (2) courses from the Foundations and three (3) courses from the Applications. Satisfactory performance is defined as getting a grade of B or higher in each of these courses.
• Students who take an Advanced course instead of the listed course and show satisfactory performance are deemed to have cleared that requirement.

Foundation Courses

CSC311 Computation Theory (Adv Algorithms & ToC)

CSC315 PoPL with Formal Verification, OOP

CSC318 Principles of Information Security

Application related Courses

CSC335 Computer & Communication Networks

CSC431 Distributed Systems

CSC441 Database Systems

CSC419 Compilers

CSC461 Software Engineering

Part II: Comprehensive Exam
This consists of a presentation and an Oral exam based on the work presented. It is meant to assess the students capacity to do research and problem solving ability.
A list of problems will be prepared twice a year and offered to PhD candidates. Every student must choose two problems - one from his research area, and one from outside. The student will be allowed a month's time to work on the problem and submit the solution/work done. The student will present the work to a committee, which will then conduct the oral exam of the student.