IT: Now a place for non-engg students

BSc student Sandhya K landed up with a job in an IT firm, just like her cousins with engineering degrees. The 21-year-old will join a Bangalore-based top company from July on a starting salary of Rs1.8lakhs, and her job profile includes a ‘non-technical’ activity like testing. Sandhya says four IT firms came to her college for placements. Like Sandhya, there are several non-engineering graduates ? most of them who are BSc graduates, while a few with BCom and BA degrees ? who are ge…