Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik— a leader in data analytics announced the expansion of its academic programme to cover 50 education institutions across 25 cities in India.

This will enable more universities to improve the value of their offerings by teaching marketable data skills, and help students advance their analytical and data literacy skills within the academic discipline. Offering free, full-year subscriptions to Qlik software, it is open to any accredited university-level institution worldwide, for-profit and non-profit colleges alike.

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The programme provides access to the data analytics curriculum that provides professors with ready-toteach, free resources including instructor-led content, in-class activities and student assignments.

One can also take advantage of its continuous classroom– a distance-learning platform with over 125 hours of online learning content. It will be made available to students enrolled in renowned higher education institutions like IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, SP Jain School of Global Management, NIT Karnataka, NMIMS Mumbai, SCMHRD, Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar, IIFT, and IMT Ghaziabad, amongst others.

With the expansion, over 850 universities in more than 65 countries are now participants of the programme. “This is an easy to learn and modern tool for data analytics as an additional technology edge.

We found that it helped students to get recruited quicker as a fresher compared to those without these skills. The online materials and timely guidelines given by the team, which is simple to roll out and really useful,” said Siddhartha Ghosh, professor-department of computer science and engineering and head-placements, VJIT, Hyderabad.

With recently added access to Qlik Continuous Classroom and Qlik Community, students and professors are empowered to find new ways to visualise and analyse data, and to share insights and findings through an interactive, collaborative team environment.

This is a 24/7 self-service online learning platform to learn by allowing to completely customise the learning journey based on their individual needs. Learners can choose from more than 125 modules containing videos, exercises, and quizzes.

They can also interact directly with Qlik instructors and other learners, leveraging web conferencing tools and forums to quickly obtain answers and share best practices. The forum is a private group on Qlik Community for programme approved professors and students.

The sharing platform fosters collaboration and networking while providing a one-stop shop to access all academic resources, including the data analytics curriculum, text books, and free data sets.

By sharing resources and starting discussions, professors and students can see how others within academia are using Qlik and build upon their experiences.