| | 19 DECEMBER 2021Reviewand, Marketing Communication, cov-ering Brand and Advertising, Retail and Sales Promotions, Marketing, Pub-lic Relations and Events. "We have a robust partnership with the media industry for close to two de-cades. As a policy we allow students to take up part-time internships and free-lance opportunities even while they study, without compromising on their college activities. This allows them to understand the expectations and de-mands of the media industry, and suit-ably adjust their learning to meet the requirements," he says. Added to this, compulsory three-month summer internships are orga-nized by the college depending on their areas of specialization, including Ad-vertising, Public Relations, Event Man-agement, Corporate Communication, Development Communication, Print and Digital Journalism, Television News Production, Film Production, and Radio. With the entire Commits' in-house faculty and course directors being se-nior industry professionals, they bring with them rich experience and knowl-edge of best practices in their respec-tive subjects. Each faculty and course director has a minimum of 20 years of combined industry and teaching expe-rience. They follow the SPADE (Self-study, Presentation, Analysis, Dis-cussion and Evaluation) methodology, which enables effective learning, time-bound outcomes and gives the students an immersive learning experience.Training Students for the FutureCommits is leaving no stone unturned to make the students future ready. The college believes that the students should be trained so well that they should `earn their job' and not just `be placed'. The focus therefore is on equipping them with skills and knowledge to become the best, and not just focus on jobs. "With our robust industry relation-ship and intensive training, we ensure that each student has more than one job opportunity at the end of the course, with the best salary options," says Dr K Sai Prasad. Commitscions work with all leading media channels, newspa-pers, FM Radio, brand and advertising agencies, Public Relations and Event Management agencies, Digital Market-ing companies, multinational corpora-tions and start-ups. A few organizations where the stu-dents secured jobs last year are Byju's Learning, Republic TV, The New Indi-an Express, Times Now, International Business Times, MSL-Publicis, Radio One, Bangalore Mirror, Saatchi Focus, Dentsu Advertising, Silicon India, First Post, etc. among others. Noted AlumniSome of the top Commits alumni are Prema Sridevi, noted investigative journalist and founder, The Probe.in; Faye D'Souza, noted independent jour-nalist and former award winning edi-tor of Mirror Now; Priyali Sur, former consultant with World Bank and Bill Gates Foundation; Sohini Guha Roy, Head of Audience Engagement with Network-18; Neha Mehta-Kothari, Communications Director, Byju's; Vic-tor Mukherjee, noted Bollywood pro-ducer and director, and many more. Partnerships Commits and Network18 Group signed an MoU in 2015 for training, in-ternship and placements for Commits students with Network18 channels and media platforms. Commits has signed an MoU with `Aspire For Her' a not for profit organization which focuses on empowering students, especially girls, through innovative training pro-grammes, online webinars/seminars with women achievers and entrepre-neurs, and enrolling for cutting edge tech courses on IBM Open P-Tech platform. Commits has partnered with Daksh-MARGA, a law NGO for awareness and capacity-building in the areas overlapping Media and Law. Pro-grammes will be conducted for media students, faculty working journalists, and PR professionals. Commits and The Forum for Environmental Journal-ists in India (FEJI), have partnered to sensitise and train students and social influencers in the areas of Rural Devel-opment and Environment. The FutureThe future roadmap for Commits in-cludes setting up a Commits School for Film and Television, with active support from the film industry to ca-ter to the growing needs of the sector, especially with the advent of OTT and digital platforms. Commits is also in the process of setting up Centres of Excellence focus-ing on capacity-building and research in the areas of `Media Ethics and Val-ues' and `Media and Environment'. On the anvil is a Media Incubation Centre to nurture students and alumni who are keen to turn media entrepre-neurs. Commits also aspires to become a Media Lab, focusing on global re-search and training, student-exchange, familiarization, and experiential learn-ing programmes, and be a thought lead-er in the media and communications industry.BENGALURU COLLEGES - 2021HIGHER EDUCATIONReview TOP 10
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