Essential Qualification for any course is a degree in Engineering or a postgraduate degree in Science/Humanities as applicable with prerequisites. Each participant will be admitted for a Maximum of 2 Courses. Applying to courses is strictly through online portal of CCE. Please read all the instructions provided at our portal before applying. Payment of course fee is through payment gateway provided at our online portal and no other means of payment is accepted. The course fee is Rs. 5000/- per credit and registration fee is Rs. 300/- per course. Any other gateway charges must be borne by participant during online payment. For each application, participants must upload (BE, B.Tech / Post-Graduation) Convocation/Degree Certificate without fail.

There is a maximum permissible and minimum required number of registrants for each course. If the number is less than the minimum required in a particular course, that course may not be offered. A course may also be dropped due to unforeseen circumstances. The decision of the Chairman, CCE, shall be final in this regard. Applicants may be required to take a written test for selection to some of the courses. The test will be of aptitude/objective type of 1 hour duration, confined to the minimum background and prerequisites prescribed. The applicants called for the test will be intimated by post well in advance. The list of candidates called for the test will also be displayed on the CCE-PROFICIENCE Office notice board. The applicants are also requested to check with the Office for any information/clarification.

The selected candidates should produce the original certificates for verification and a passport size photograph (for identity card) along with the fees. Payment of fees should be made through an “A/c payee” DD drawn on a nationalised bank in Bengaluru. The DD should be drawn in favour of COORDINATOR, CCE-PROFICIENCE. The fee will be received in the CCE-PROFICIENCE Office on the dates mentioned in the intimation letter (please refer to the back cover).

The course fee is Rs.5000/- per credit. Some of the courses include a limited exposure to computer operation and programming (C). The additional fees for this is Rs. 5000/-. The course fee and laboratory fee should be paid in full at the time of joining the course.

Refund of course fee will not be made, unless, the course is withdrawn officially, in which case, the course fee paid is refunded in full. Application fee once paid will NOT BE REFUNDED under any circumstances.

Applicants for those courses are given an opportunity to select other courses except courses which had an aptitude test provided they fulfill the requirements for the opted course. This can be done with the approval of the Chairman, CCE.

Classes will be held in the Lecture Hall Complex of IISc. Lectures will be between 6.00 and 8.00 pm, Monday to Friday, and between 10 am and 4 pm on Saturdays. LABORATORY CLASSES: The timings and days for laboratory classes will be fixed in the second week of the respective months (August & January) after the complete registration is known. This will be done, keeping in view the convenience of the faculty and all the students of the courses with laboratory component.

Results of the courses will be announced normally around 1st week of January for August-December term and 1st week of June for January-May term. Certificates will be issued on or after the date of announcement of results and against surrendering the Identity Card.

Participants will be issued identity cards which should be shown on demand. The participants who have successfully completed should surrender the ID card at the time of receiving the certificate, failing which the certificate(s) will not be issued to her/him. Police authorized by lodging and complaint and then request the Officer-in-charge, CCE to issue duplicate ID during submitting police complaint and Rs. 100/- on penalty In the event of loss of identity card, the matter should be immediately reported to the Officer-in-Charge, CCE-PROFICIENCE in writing.