Today, short term courses are like career-boosting opportunities for students. These courses help students in enhancing their skills and acquire more knowledge on their interested topics and core subjects. In a way, it helps the students in gaining more information, different perspectives and an in-depth understanding of the vital subjects or topics which a student is willing to know more about. Adding further, in the present market scenario the competition among the students and the expectations of the students for getting placed in a prominent company with a good salary package is the most common and known fact. In this process of career-building students are trying hard and putting in all their efforts to add value and make their CV strong.

The Short term Courses and Training are being considered very important as it serves many objectives mentioned above also, it has earned great importance. Henceforth, most of the colleges offering professional courses make it mandatory for the students to take up a minimum of two certificate courses. Understanding the importance and necessity of short term courses, the Government of India has come up with various short term courses and training for the higher education students irrespective of their mainstream course or subjects. Also, the government certificate courses are made available online with a Central Government Portal named ‘Swayam’ which offers numerous short term courses. A student can enrol in any short term course from any place of the country using this online portal operated by the Central Government, adding to this the students are awarded the certificates after the completion of their courses. These certificates are being provided under the guidance of the Central Government of India, and the certificates are offered by the recognized universities of India that are associated with Swayam.

Also, there are free courses provided by the government, alongside short term courses with placement facilities. Most of the students studying professional courses prefer for the short term courses guaranteed with job as the universities associated with the central government to provide short term courses are highly reputed and recognized for their placement facilities. Following is the short term courses list offered by the Government:

Short Term Courses for Management Studies –

1. Advanced Corporate Strategy
2. Banking and Financial Markets
3. Brand Management
4. Consumer Behavior
5. Customer Relationship Management
6. Business Communication
7. Marketing Management
8. Marketing and Innovation
9. Financial Accounting and Analysis
10. Innovation and Start-up and many more.

Short Term Courses for IT –

1. Digital Marketing
2. Web Designing
3. Developing Web Application Technologies
4. Programming through Python
5. Cloud Computing
6. Big Data
7. Machine Learning

Short Term Courses for Computer Science Engineering –

1. Data Mining
2. Cyber Security
3. Animations
4. Blockchain Technology
5. Real-Time Operating Systems
6. Software Engineering
7. Operating Systems
8. Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Short Term Courses for Arts and Humanities –

1. Communication Skills
2. Basics of Photography
3. Cultural Studies
4. Developing Soft Skills
5. Early Indian History
6. Environmental Economics
7. Film Studies
8. Creative Writing
9. Modern Indian Drama
10. Indian Literature
11. Sociology
12. Psychology
13. Brain and Behavior and many more on the list.

Short Term Courses for Law –

1. Introduction to Law
2. Corporate Law
3. Corporate Taxing
4. Criminal Law
5. Environmental Law
6. Human Rights
7. Socio Economic Offense
8. Advanced Constitutional Law

The above-mentioned courses are the most popular and prominent short term courses provided by the Government of India. The Central Government also offers job related short term courses for the students who search for job oriented short term courses. The Government offers short term courses through both the mediums that are offline and online, in offline mode the courses are being offered several reputed universities and institutions. And online the portal named Swayam where the courses are offered by highly well-known universities such as AICTE, UGC, NPTEL, IGNOU, IIMB, NCERT, CEC and more on the list. I hope the information mentioned above will be helpful for the students in finding the right and valuable short courses offered by the Government of India.