IDFC FIRST Bank announced scholarships for deserving students on Tuesday. The scholarship is open to first-year data science and analytics students from SVKM’s NMIMS (SOMASA).
As part of the scholarship, students are given a will to cover the annual expenses of students in the first year of their respective program. Furthermore, these students receive a stipend and are offered a pre-placement to work with the Bank’s Data Science & Analytics team, based on their performance during the internship. The internship lasts two months and can be extended for another four months, the bank’s press release reports.
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The selection of students for the IDFC FIRST Bank Meritorious Student Scholarship is based on the first semester exam results, followed by face-to-face interviews. In the selection process, as much importance is attached to academic excellence as to the Bank’s internal evaluation.
B Madhivanan, chief operating officer, IDFC FIRST Bank, said: “We are committed to building and supporting talent in data science and analytics, a dynamic and in-demand field. The scholarship program also aligns well with two of the three pillars of the Our bank’s corporate philosophy is to be digital and a force for social well-being.”
The announcement of the scholarship to NMIMS, one of India’s leading universities, is just the beginning. In the future, we hope to expand this initiative and enable more students to break new ground in their academic and professional pursuits.” dr. Ramesh Bhat, Vice Chancellor of NMIMS of SVKM, said: “I thank and congratulate IDFC FIRST Bank for establishing this scholarship program for the deserving students of NMIMS School of Mathematics, Applied Statistics and Analysis.”
He added: “The scholarship program is one of the excellent initiatives that will benefit students pursuing their education in data analytics at NMIMS. The partnership with IDFC comes at a very opportune time, which will help us educate students. We have recently undergone a restructuring of our school and departments leading to the creation of the School of Mathematics, Applied Statistics & Analytics.The new school will be headed from Dr. Sushil Kulkarni, who recently joined us as Dean, and we are confident that he
would take the school to new heights.”
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