A new-age 4-yr Applied AI degree built for global careers
A new-age 4-yr Applied AI degree built for global careers
A new-age 4-yr Applied AI degree built for global careers
A new-age 4-yr Applied AI degree built for global careers
Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve real problems - from Year 1.
Design, build, and deploy AI systems that solve real problems - from Year 1.
DURATION
4 Years
SPECIALISATION
Cloud & Big Data Engineering
START DATE
August 2026
What is Cloud & Big Data Engineering?
What is Cloud & Big Data Engineering?
What is Cloud & Big Data Engineering?
Every meaningful decision made at scale today is made with data. The systems that collect it, move it, store it, and make it usable are the invisible infrastructure of the modern world — and they are breaking under the weight of how fast data is growing.
The Opportunity
Data and cloud engineering are foundational to every industry running at scale. Demand for engineers who can design, build, and operate large-scale data systems far outpaces supply.
The Urgency
AI models are only as good as the data pipelines feeding them. The engineers who can build and maintain that infrastructure are becoming the most critical hires in any AI-first organisation.
Polaris Edge
This is not a CS degree with a cloud elective. It is designed around one question: can you build the systems that the world's data actually runs on?
Curriculum Structure
Curriculum Structure
Curriculum Structure
What four years at Polaris actually looks like. Not a syllabus. A roadmap - what you'll learn, what you'll build, and where you'll go.
Year 1
Seed
Build the technical and mathematical literacy that everything else rests on. Discover what you're capable of.
Courses
Fundamentals of Programming
Fundamentals of Data Structures
Math for AI/ML
Frontend App and Website Development
Basics of Databases
Distributed Systems Fundamentals
You'll build:
Personal Finance Tracker
Static Portfolio Website
Mini Search Engine
First Open Source PR
Year 1
Seed
Build the technical and mathematical literacy that everything else rests on. Discover what you're capable of.
Courses
Fundamentals of Programming
Fundamentals of Data Structures
Math for AI/ML
Frontend App and Website Development
Basics of Databases
Distributed Systems Fundamentals
You'll build:
Personal Finance Tracker
Static Portfolio Website
Mini Search Engine
First Open Source PR
Year 2
Grow
Where programming becomes engineering. You move from writing code to designing systems - and begin working with the architectures that power data at scale.
Courses
Full Stack Development
Data Science Foundations - Models and Applications
Gen AI Systems & Architectures
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
System Design Thinking
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code
You'll build:
Automated ETL Pipeline
Cloud-Hosted Web App
Database Benchmarking Tool
App Dev OJT Deliverable
Year 2
Grow
Where programming becomes engineering. You move from writing code to designing systems - and begin working with the architectures that power data at scale.
Courses
Full Stack Development
Data Science Foundations - Models and Applications
Gen AI Systems & Architectures
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
System Design Thinking
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code
You'll build:
Automated ETL Pipeline
Cloud-Hosted Web App
Database Benchmarking Tool
App Dev OJT Deliverable
Year 3
Disrupt
This is the year you design pipelines that never sleep, build systems that self-heal, and learn what it actually takes to operate infrastructure that the world depends on.
Courses
Computer Architecture
Operating System and Networks
Data Modeling & Storage Systems
Stream & Batch Data Processing
Observability & Reliability Engineering
You'll build:
Year 3
Disrupt
This is the year you design pipelines that never sleep, build systems that self-heal, and learn what it actually takes to operate infrastructure that the world depends on.
Courses
Computer Architecture
Operating System and Networks
Data Modeling & Storage Systems
Stream & Batch Data Processing
Observability & Reliability Engineering
You'll build:
Year 4
Launch
You are embedded in an engineering organisation, a cloud team, or your own company - running systems at scale, with real data, real incidents, and real consequences.
Courses
You'll build:
Automated Testing Suite
Big Data Pipeline At Scale
Open Source Infra Tool
Industry Immersion Capstone
Year 4
Launch
You are embedded in an engineering organisation, a cloud team, or your own company - running systems at scale, with real data, real incidents, and real consequences.
Courses
You'll build:
Automated Testing Suite
Big Data Pipeline At Scale
Open Source Infra Tool
Industry Immersion Capstone
At Polaris, your portfolio is your degree
At Polaris, your portfolio is your degree
At Polaris, your portfolio is your degree
A smart model that calculates risk scores & severity to spot heart disease before it becomes a crisis.
Jagadish Sunil Pednekar
Second Year
An AI model that cuts through fake listings & messy data to find any vehicle's true market value.
Deep Parmar
Second Year
A smart filtering system that analyzes user patterns to suggest hidden gem movies you'll actually love.
Saurabh Singh
Second Year
Career Prospects
Industry placement
Higher Studies
Entrepreneurship
Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.
Roles you step into
Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer
Career Prospects
Industry placement
Higher Studies
Entrepreneurship
Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.
Roles you step into
Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer
Career Prospects
Industry placement
Higher Studies
Entrepreneurship
Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.
Roles you step into
Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer
Career Prospects
Industry placement
Higher Studies
Entrepreneurship
Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.
Roles you step into
Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer
What Students do From Year 1
What Students do From Year 1
What Students do From Year 1
A Tailored Career Pathway, Day 1
A Tailored Career Pathway, Day 1
A Tailored Career Pathway, Day 1
A Tailored Career Pathway, Day 1
Technical readiness
Internship preparation, open source onboarding, portfolio building, GitHub and resume reviews, mock technical interviews - so you're hireable from Year 1, not Year 4.
Personal brand
You can be the best engineer in the room and still be invisible. We help you build a presence - so the right people find you before you need to find them.
Communication & public speaking
Articulate your ideas clearly. Present your work with confidence. Pitch to a room.
Networking on campus
3000+ industry professionals have visited Polaris - engineers, founders, investors, and researchers. Every guest lecture and hackathon is a chance to make a connection that matters.
Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.
A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.
1
Take PAT
Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.
2
1:1 Interview
Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.
3
Pre-Engineering Cohort
Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.
Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.
A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.
1
Take PAT
Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.
2
1:1 Interview
Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.
3
Pre-Engineering Cohort
Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join these highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.
Not Everybody Gets In.
Limited by Design.
A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.
1
Take PAT
Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.
2
1:1 Interview
Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.
3
Pre-Engineering Cohort
Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join these highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.
Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.
A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.
1
Take PAT
Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.
2
1:1 Interview
Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.
3
Pre-Engineering Cohort
Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.
Who should apply.
Who should apply.
Who should apply.
Criteria
1
Qualification
Criteria
1
Qualification
Grade XII from any recognised board in 2024, 2025 or 2026
Criteria
2
Stream
Criteria
2
Stream
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (PCM) — mandatory
Criteria
3
Admission test
Criteria
3
Admission test
Polaris Admission Test (PAT), JEE or SAT
Criteria
4
Nationality
Criteria
4
Nationality
Open to Indian and international applicants
Polaris Early Entry Program (PEEP) Get your seat for the Batch of 2027.
The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.
Polaris Early Entry Program (PEEP) Get your seat for the Batch of 2027.
The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.
Admission Eligibility AGet your seat for the Batch of 2027.
The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.
Admission Eligibility AGet your seat for the Batch of 2027.
The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.
We don't test what you know. We test how you think.
We don't test what you know. We test how you think.
We don't test what you know. We test how you think.
Most entrance exams reward memorisation. The Polaris Admission Test (PAT) is different. It's designed to surface the students who can reason clearly and solve problems they've never seen before.
Duration
120 minutes
Tracks
Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)
Fee
Included in the ₹1,500 application fee
Next exam date
25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)
Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.
Fast Track your Application
You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:
• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)
Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.
Duration
120 minutes
Tracks
Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)
Fee
Included in the ₹1,500 application fee
Next exam date
25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)
Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.
Fast Track your Application
You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:
• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)
Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.
Duration
120 minutes
Tracks
Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)
Fee
Included in the ₹1,500 application fee
Next exam date
25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)
Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.
Fast Track your Application
You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:
• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)
Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.
Duration
120 minutes
Tracks
Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)
Fee
Included in the ₹1,500 application fee
Next exam date
25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)
Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.
Fast Track your Application
You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:
90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced
1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)
Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.
Duration
120 minutes
Tracks
Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)
Fee
Included in the ₹1,500 application fee
Next exam date
25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)
Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.
Fast Track your Application
You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:
• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)
Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.
Fees Structure
Fees Structure
Fees Structure
Fee Component
Registration Fee
Admission Fee
Tuition Fee
Sem 1
Sem 2
Sem 3
Sem 4
Sem 5
Sem 6
Sem 7
Sem 8
₹10,000
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-
-
-
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-
₹81,000
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-
-
-
-
-
-
₹4,25,000
₹4,25,000
₹3,52,000
₹3,52,000
₹2,93,000
₹2,93,000
₹2,34,500
₹2,34,500
*Application form fee: ₹1,500 (one-time, non-refundable)
**Batch 2026–2030. Does not include hostel, mess, and bus fees.
Financial support & Scholarships
Financial support & Scholarships
Financial support & Scholarships
Financial barriers should never stand between a great student and a great education. Polaris offers merit and need-based scholarships - some of which cover a significant portion of your tuition fee.
Scholarship
Mukul Rustagi Scholarship for Excellence
Mukul Rustagi Scholarship for Excellence
Women in Tech Scholarship
Women in Tech Scholarship
Sourav Ganguly Young Leader in Tech
Sourav Ganguly Young Leader in Tech
Classplus Techpreneur Scholarship
Classplus Techpreneur Scholarship
PST Merit Waiver
PST Merit Waiver
PST Need-cum-Merit Waiver
PST Need-cum-Merit Waiver
Waiver
Bonus
Seats
For
₹8 Lakhs
₹8 Lakhs
MacBook 💻
MacBook
100
100
90+ percentile PAT / JEE · or 1200+ SAT
90+ percentile PAT / JEE · or 1200+ SAT
₹5 Lakhs
₹5 Lakhs
MacBook 💻
MacBook
80
80
Female applicants · profile-based
Female applicants · profile-based
Up to 30%
Up to 30%
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-
-
-
National / state-level athletes
National / state-level athletes
Up to 30%
Up to 30%
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-
-
-
Founders & builders
Founders & builders
Up to 30%
Up to 30%
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-
-
-
Strong academic record
Strong academic record
Up to 30%
Up to 30%
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-
-
Financial need + academic strength
Financial need + academic strength
Applications open. Seats are limited and awarded on a rolling basis — earlier applications have access to more seats.
Scholarships worth ₹15 Crores were granted to students for their academic excellence.
Scholarships worth ₹15 Crores were granted to students for their academic excellence.
Scholarships worth ₹15 Crores were granted to students for their academic excellence.
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PEEP
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Programs
Campus
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Is the degree program at Polaris valid for jobs and higher studies abroad?
Which degree is offered at Polaris School of Technology?
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Got more questions?
General
PAT
PEEP
Scholarship
Programs
Campus
Is Polaris School of Technology accredited and recognised?
Is the degree program at Polaris valid for jobs and higher studies abroad?
Which degree is offered at Polaris School of Technology?
Is Polaris School of Technology only for top students?
Got more questions?
General
PAT
PEEP
Scholarship
Programs
Campus
Is Polaris School of Technology accredited and recognised?
Is the degree program at Polaris valid for jobs and higher studies abroad?
Which degree is offered at Polaris School of Technology?
Is Polaris School of Technology only for top students?
Application Deadline: 21st Mar 2026 | Batch starts Aug 2026 |
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Application Deadline: 21st Mar 2026 | Batch starts Aug 2026 |
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Application Deadline: 21st Mar 2026 | Batch starts Aug 2026 |
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AWARDED IN 2025
Biggest Offline Tech Hackathon in Asia
Programs
Address
A3 Tower- DivyaSree Technopark,
EPIP Zone, Brookfield,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560066
Contact
connect@polariscampus.com
+91 79480 62863
AWARDED IN 2025
Biggest Offline Tech Hackathon in Asia
Programs
Address
A3 Tower- DivyaSree Technopark,
EPIP Zone, Brookfield,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560066
Contact
connect@polariscampus.com
+91 79480 62863