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Top 20 Guesstimate Interview Questions & Answers: 2025 Edition

Guesstimate questions have become a key part of management interviews. These questions require you to estimate something with little or no data, like how many cups of coffee are consumed daily in a city or calculate the number of books in a school library. Employers

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30 BCA Project Topics for Final Year Students in 2025 | Unique and Innovative Ideas

When you are approaching your final year as a BCA student, you should choose the right project to showcase your key skills effectively. This is going to help you launch your future career and get discovered by potential employers. The tech landscape is going to evolve rapidly in 2025. Hence, you need to pick a final-y

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Top 15 Career Options After 12th Arts: Job Scope & Qualifications

The arts stream in India has been garnering increased popularity. With the Indian education landscape increasingly recognizing the importance of arts streams and career opportunities, we witness a surge in aspirations to pursue careers in liberal arts and creative fields.

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Why Software Engineering is Among the Highest Paying Careers in India

Everything around us is becoming digital. From online shopping to digital banking, technology powers most of our daily activities. Software engineers are the driving force behind this, making their skills highly valuable and in demand. Businesses rely on technology, creating a huge demand

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Top 20 Highest Paid Jobs in India in Commerce Field [A Complete Report]

Don't you think the commerce field is one of the most lucrative sectors in India, offering a diverse range of career opportunities with excellent growth prospects? Over 44.08 lakh students are currently enrolled in commerce disciplines, comprising 47.2% females and 52.8% males.

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28 Career Options After 12th Science PCB: A Comprehensive Guide to High-Salary Courses

Making an informed career choice after completing 12th grade with PCB subjects is crucial. It’s a pivotal moment that can shape your future. With so many PCB career options after 12th science, you can sometimes feel overwhelmed. This is the time to assess your strengths — whether it's problem-solving skills, how to dev

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Top 10 Short-term Job Oriented Courses in 2025 Which are In-Demand

Are you aiming for a rewarding job switch or a career boost? Short-term courses might be the perfect answer. According to some recent studies, many learners see an average salary hike of 21% when they pick the right short-term job-oriented courses to boost their skills. That’s a pretty good payoff for a course that usually wraps up in a

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15+ Commerce Project Topics and Ideas for Students in 2025

Commerce in India is growing fast, with around 48% of commerce graduates securing jobs in 2024 alone. You notice this shift when you scan a QR code at your local shop or read about instant digital payment updates. These everyday moments show that practical knowledge carries real weight. Clearly, there's a growing demand for fresh ideas –

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Are Online Degree Programs Better than Distance Education?

‘Distance education’ and ‘Online education’ are often confused since both are delivered remotely. However, there is a significant difference between the two concerning certain essential aspects. While distance education has existed long before the advent of the internet, online education ultimately owes it

17 Oct 2022 | 8 min read

The Present and Future of EdTech

Coronavirus unleashed a whirlwind that many could not brave. Even well-planned industry infrastructures failed to cope with the pressures and uncertainties brought about by the pandemic, and rightly so. No one, anywhere in the world, was prepared to confront something of this magnitude. However, the pandemic proved to be a watershed moment for two industries in particular – EdTech

17 Oct 2022 | 12 min read

UpGrad BaseCamp: An Idea to Reach Out to our Students

BaseCamp – a word, a concept now synonymous with the awesome learning experience that UpGrad provides to its learners and changing the way we look at online education. Before I divulge into the details of BaseCamp let me take you through

17 Oct 2022 | 5 min read

11 Tools that Student and Customer Support Teams Use

One of the major components of the work and workflow within UpGrad is effective time management. Time management for Student Mentors and Experience Managers or any Customer Support Team is complemented by a vast array of tools. We closely work with these tools in order to give context or through light on, and provide insights to, the way we work. These tools are used by the Stud

14 Oct 2022 | 9 min read

What Goes Into Online Courses: The World of the Content Team

From schools to colleges, from MBAs to preparation for competitive examinations, from digital marketing to product management courses, everything has been converted into e-learning. The rise of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other types of ed-tech models, have today provided us with a range of options when it comes to quality and industry oriented education.The success of these

14 Oct 2022 | 7 min read

The Verdict on Online Courses: To Do or Not To Do

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry FordNot many years ago, if you wanted to learn something, you had to sign up for a course with a brick and mortar institution, leave your current job and physically attend classes. That was before the advent of online education (or

14 Oct 2022 | 8 min read

Are You Dreaming the Right Dream? Build Your Career for Tomorrow

MBA, these three alphabets in the Indian context have life-changing power. It is a degree of dreams, like a magic pill for all your problems. Want to change your field of work? Do an MBA. Need a swanky job coupled with a pay rise? Do an MBA… you get the drift. But, there are some out there for whom, it is no less than a dream in itself, I was one of those people. The feeling of bein

14 Oct 2022 | 6 min read

What is the Armstrong Number in Java? It’s Prerequisites and Algorithm

What is the Armstrong Number? A given number x is called an Armstrong number of order n if its equal to sum of its digits raised to power n, i.e: abc= pow(a,n) + pow(b,n) + pow(c,n) A positive integer of n digits is an Armstrong number (of order 3) if it is equal to the sum of cubes of its digits. For example: Input: 153

14 Oct 2022 | 6 min read

What Skill Development Really Means and Why It’s Important for Success

Skill development is no longer a matter of choice. It is imperative to adapt, survive and succeed. We work in an era where dealing with ambiguity and disruptive trends are pivotal to success. In parallel to maintaining an academic awareness of your field, you have to review the career eco-system. Adapting skills and attitude is now inevitable to succeed in the years to come.

14 Oct 2022 | 6 min read

Introducing UpGrad LABS

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”– Steve Jobs Working as the Director of Strategic Alliances for UpGrad has put me at the heart of a unique feedback cycle. I meet with Chief HR Officers and Learning and Development professionals from several companies on a daily basis to understand their efforts i

14 Oct 2022 | 8 min read

Is Writer’s Block Good For You? #WriteForUpGrad

This is a Guest Blog by Michael Burns, author of Hack Into Your Creativity. The real nightmare is not having writer’s block. My new book, Hack Into Your Creativity, is a resource for writers in all kinds of ways. It’s an idea generator, a source of encouragement, a guide, and (if yo

14 Oct 2022 | 7 min read

Only 25% Of Indian Graduates Are Employable, And The Solution Is Obvious

Co-authored by: Apoorva Shankar, Business Development Associate, UpGradThe world today has enhanced productivity requirements. Due to this, the demand for highly skilled labour is growing. China and India are set to drive this demand. Globally, the share of low-skill jobs is likely to decline from 74% of employment in 2010 to 62% by 2020. On the other hand, the shortage of

14 Oct 2022 | 6 min read

Working Professional’s Need of Staying Relevant

Online education across segments and students population is emerging as a popular option for individuals.Across age groups, online education is getting adopted. A segment where we at UpGrad feel that online adoption will be rapid, is the

13 Oct 2022 | 4 min read

What Does it Take for a Fresher to Get a Job?

Welcome to the world of job hunting! While you might still be getting used to being addressed as a graduate, the time clock has already started ticking for you to cash in on the fresher tag before it gets late. However, landing a lucrative job immediately after graduating is not as easy as job portals make it to be. It’s essential to approach your career with a fresh and relaxed mi

13 Oct 2022 | 8 min read

Academic Plagiarism & How to Avoid it

Academic Integrity When I was pursuing my Masters, one thing which scared me the most was to be able to produce authentic work without plagiarizing. I never had to think about it in the past, but overnight it had become a cornerstone for academic excellence. It needed practice and patience and while the road wasn’t very cushiony initially, I did get through. Chec

13 Oct 2022 | 8 min read

Competitions to aid Online Learning

At upGrad, we’re committed to improving the learning experience for our students through different modes of learning. One such method that we have currently incorporated is simulating a gamified environment that can motivate the participan

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