The two have announced the launch of postgraduate level advanced programme in Applied Data Science and Machine Intelligence.

TalentSprint is an NSE Group company and is a leading edtech company.

RBCDSAI (Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence) is a world-renowned interdisciplinary research centre with wide-ranging expertise in network analytics, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing.

The duration of the course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI is 12 months.

Candidates who have completed BE, ME, BTech or MTech or any other degree are eligible to apply for the course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI.

Also candidates willing to do the course by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI must be having an experience of 1 to 5 years.

The fees for the course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI is Rs 3 lakhs with easy Easy Monthly Instalments (EMI). The course is expected to start in August this year.

Young professionals need to focus equally on building strong fundamentals and applying the learnings to solve real world problems across multiple industry domains, he said.

Dr. Ravindran is the head of RBCDSAI and Professor of Computer Science at IIT Madras and a Mindtree Faculty Fellow.

Dr. Ravindran said IIT Madras, India’s No. 1 NIRF ranked institution, has always been a top choice for serious learners from all over the world.

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‘It is home to RBCDSAI, an interdisciplinary centre comprising faculty across more than 8 IIT Madras departments and more than 80 researchers leveraging data science to extract actionable insights in the fields of technology, finance, smart cities, finance and healthcare.’

Working with TalentSprint, with their exemplary track record in deep-tech education, allows us to transmit our collective expertise to ambitious young professionals in the early stages of their careers and give them a head start, he said.

Partnering with IIT Madras is a rare honour and we are excited to be working together, he said.

The demand and supply gap in Applied Data Science is immense right now, and this program has been designed to squarely address it.

We believe the exceptional subject matter expertise of RBCDSAI combined with the contextual industry expertise and online delivery infrastructure of TalentSprint will start to address this widening gap.

To that end, we are setting up a dedicated career accelerator to work closely with industry looking for talent and program participants to create win-win outcomes, said CEO and MD of TalentSprint.

Dr. Arun Rajkumar, programme director and a core member of RBCDSAI said the programme offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI is best suited for early career professionals eager to build strong industry readiness.

We also aim to include a campus visit towards the end of the program so that participants can benefit from the real-life experience, he said.

The registration for the postgraduate level advanced programme in Applied Data Science and Machine Intelligence is now open.

Candidates willing to apply for the course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI have to visit the official website ‘https://iitm.talentsprint.com/adsmi/’

Soon after the webpage page downloads, candidates can fill the form located on the right side of the webpage and submit the form.

The course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI is designed by RBCDSAI of IIT Madras which is ranked no 1 as per NIRF ratings.

Top researchers in Applied Data Science and Machine Intelligence would teach lessons in this course offered by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI.

Certification on completion of the course will be provided by Centre for Continuing Education at IIT Madras.

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Applicants who are selected for the course provided by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI can pay the course fee totally at one time or in easy monthly installments.

The application fee for this course by TalentSprint and RBCDSAI is Rs 1000 for domestic candidates and $15 for international candidates.

Those who are wishing to join management courses in XLRI (Xavier School of Management) can concentrate on this exam which is one of the most popular ones in the country.

Those who take up XAT 2025 Registration from 28 September 2024 onwards, can choose to write exam from the new test centers.

The Newly Added Test Centers Are: Ajmer, Aligarh, Anantapur, Arrah, Baddi, Balasore, Bareilly, Bhagalpur, Bikaner, Bilaspur, Chikkaballapur, Darbhanga, Davanagere, Dhenkanal, Haldwani, Hazaribagh, Hisar, Jodhpur, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Kalyani, Karimnagar, Kolhapur, Kurukshetra, Mehsana, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Muzaffarpur, Nanded, Patiala, Salem, Shimla, Sikar, Ujjain, Vellore.

The Other Test Centers Are: Agra, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad City (Maharashtra), Allahabad, Ambala, Amravati, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhatinda, Bhilai Nagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh/Mohali, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi-NCR, Dhanbad, Dibrugarh, Durgapur/Asansol, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hooghly, Hubballi(Hubli), Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur,Jalandhar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kota, Kottayam, Kurnool, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysuru(Mysore), Nagpur, Nashik, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Roorkee, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Siliguri, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupathi, Tiruvallur, Udaipur, Udupi Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal, Tejpur, Jorhat, Rajkot, Shillong, Naharlagun.

The process of submitting the application started on 15 July 2024. Admit card for the exam will be available for download from 20 December 2024.

Exam will be conducted on 5 January 2025 from 2:00pm to 5:30pm. The process of application (XAT 2025 Registration) has begun.

The scores in the exam will be used by other well-known management institutions for admission into courses offered by them.

There are other prestigious B Schools that offer admission into management courses based on scores in XAT and these institutions are known as XAMI (Xavier Association of Management Institutes).

Point to remember

The official website for the exam is ready and it can be visited with the help of URL ‘https://xatonline.in/’ The candidates can read the information about the exam.

The link to take up XAT 2025 registration is active, candidates can take up XAT 2025 registration and apply for the test.

About the exam

The full name of the exam is Xavier Aptitude Test which is popularly known to all as XAT. It is conducted every year by XLRI of Jamshedpur.

It is a national level exam that has to be passed to gain admission into management courses offered by XLRI and other participating institutions.

XAT 2025 is meant to be conducted for the year 2025. The test will be conducted across 75 cities in India.

Even apart from participating institutions, many other b schools across India offer admissions based on scores in this exam.

Who can take up XAT 2025 registration?

Candidates willing to take up XAT 2025 registration must have passed Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent from a recognized educational institution located anywhere in India.

Candidates appearing for the final year of their qualifying degree examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also take up XAT 2025 registration.

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However, they have to pass the exam and provide a proof for it by the time of admission process commencement in XLRI or its associate institutions.

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.

2. Once the website is ready, candidates can click the information brochure and know about the exam.

3. After reading the information, candidates can click the button Register.

4. Clicking the above button will open another webpage with URL ‘https://applications.xatonline.in/?_gl=1*17pi4n7*_ga*MTM4OTUzOTQ1NC4xNzIwODU1NjQw*_ga_44L83023B1*MTcyMDg1NTY0MC4xLjEuMTcyMDg1NTgyMC42MC4wLjA.’

5. When the webpage with above URL opens, candidates can provide the required information and create an account with username and password.

6. Post account creation, candidates can login and start applying for the exam.

Link to take up XAT 2025 Registration is Here

Registration fee

Candidates have to pay XAT 2025 registration fee of Rs 2200 while applying for the exam. Those applying for XLRI programmes, have to pay Rs 200 per programme.

How to download admit card?

Candidates who have successfully completed their XAT 2025 registration will alone be able to download admit card and its process is explained below:

1. Candidates have to visit the official website for the exam at ‘https://xatonline.in/’

2. Once the website is ready, candidates have to click the link for downloading hall ticket which may open another webpage.

3. When another webpage opens, candidates have to type their application number and other required information and submit them to obtain the admit card.

Exam pattern

XAT 2025 will be conducted online as a computer based test where the questions have to be answered on a computer screen at the test centre.

Duration to complete answering is 3 hours 30 minutes. The test will have questions related to Decision Making, Verbal & Logical Ability, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation, General Knowledge, and Essay Writing.

Candidates who have taken up XAT 2025 registration must remember that XLRI has decided to make changes in exam timings. XAT 2025 exam timing stands changed from morning to afternoon.

The exam has to be passed with required qualifying marks which is also known as cutoff scores.

Cutoff score is the minimum marks candidates have to get in the exam to be eligible for next phase of admission.

The score of the candidates in the exam must be either greater than cutoff or equal to it.

Those who pass can appear for the next stage which comprises group discussion, interview, document verification. Those who get the seat can pay the money and join the institution for classes.

Point to remember

It is to note that many institutions accept XAT scores for admission into management programmes offered by them, their admission process and schedule may vary from that of XLRI.

Candidates have to visit the websites of those institutions and obtain information about their admission process before submitting applications there.