What is the difference between engineering in CS and MCA?

B.Tech CS is an engineering degree which give CSE graduates strong foundation in Computational Science with Mathematics background. It exposes students on Systems aspect of programming. Whereas MCA emphasis is on Business Applications development and Programming. CSE graduates can do Apps and Systems programming with ease whereas MCA graduates will find it difficult to do systems programming. CSE graduates are cream of engineering colleges as only toppers are able to get admission in CSE. Becauae of this, Indian IT industry prefers B.Tech CSE grads over MCA grads. Based on my personal experience in Industry for 33 years, I can say B.Tech CSE graduates are superior to others graduates in CS knowledge and they can be deployed on live projects with ease and their superior programming skills are easily visible in their performance in industry. However, there are exceptions also.

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MCA or Master of Computer Application is a general Master's degree course related with computer application. It simultaneously deals with software and hardware functions and implementations. On the other hand, a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering is a technical Bachelor's degree course, which is also related with software and hardware. But the difference in these two are that an MCA student knows the theory part of software and hardware more than a B.Tech student. And a b.Tech student knows the technical implementation of things better, and the application and theory part is strong for an MCA . More or less,goals of both are same and job prospects also are equal for both. Some of the good universities offering CS and MCA are JNU, Lovely Professional University, BHU etc.

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