PG Diploma in Data Science & AI

Program Structure and Salient Features

  • 9 months long diploma course, 450 hours program including online interactive sessions of 310 hours and required self-study and project work of 140 hours
  • 30 credits
  • One term project
  • All courses are mandatory (no elective)
  • Lectures by IIIT-D faculty and Subject Matter Experts from the partner industry
  • Industry-aligned certification examinations including courses, credits and responsibilities
  • Delivery Mode will be Online


Detailed Structure

Term Course Hours Course Credit Responsibility
Classroom Lab Total
Trimester 1 (110 hrs) 90 hrs 20 Hrs 110 Hrs Python Programming for analytics 2 IIIT-D
Probability and Statistics 3 IIIT-D
Mathematics and optimization theory 2 IIIT-D
Business Intelligence 2 IBM
Trimester 2 (160 hrs) 120 hrs 40 Hrs 160 Introduction to Machine Learning 2 IIIT-D
Data Science 2 IBM
Data Mining 3 IIIT-D
Big Data Applications 2 IBM
Natural Language Processing 2 IIIT-D
Trimester 3 (130 hrs) 100 hrs 30 hrs 130 hrs Application of ML/DL 2 IIIT-D
Deep Learning 3 IIIT-D
Artificial Intelligence in application 3 IBM
Term project 2 Joint
Total 310 Hrs 90 Hrs 400 hrs 12 subjects + 1 Term Project 30 Hours: IBM/IIIT-D (100+90)+20hrs Joint Project Monitoring

Mode of course delivery
  • Days: All Saturday and one Sunday in every month (at least 46 days for the program duration)
  • Timing: 09:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs with one break of 60 minutes (7 hours per online session)
  • Online lectures and labs
  • Delivery Mode will be Online

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