IIT Bombay Launches Online Professional Certificate Programmes in Cybersecurity and Software Development

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay launched two online Professional Certificate Programmes in Cybersecurity and Software Development as part of a massive programme to fill the digital skill gap. The programmes have already gone on sale, and classes for the first batch of the students will start from September 1, 2025.

 

Year programs are specifically made for working professionals, college teachers, and third or fourth-year students of engineering, mainly computer science or allied engineering students. There will be on-campus proctored exams for online courses to ensure academic integrity.

 

Every certificate program includes three well-crafted courses by IIT Bombay faculty with emphasis on experiential learning through bi-weekly lab sessions and hands-on experience with the software technologies employed by leading tech companies.

 

"These are not formal academics—rather, they're industry-focused and application-based," states an IIT Bombay professor. "We seek to equip students with in-demand tech jobs with profound, practical training."

 

Careers are excellent. The Indian cyber security market is anticipated to be valued at $10 billion by 2025, and the increasing dependence on software development in most industries, the courses make the learners job-ready as:

 

Full-Stack Developer

Security Analyst

Security Architect

DevSecOps Engineer

Software Engineer

 

IIT Bombay, with 17 departments of study and more than 75,000 alumni, is yet far from being surpassed by others in the realms of science and engineering educational innovation. With these additions, the institute is injecting academic seriousness to a larger mass—restless at home, but voraciously devouring content with substance and discipline because of IIT.

 

The applications are already in.