Career Edge

How will you benefit from an education at CalUniversity?
California University of Technology’s application-based learning method is one of the pillars held up by students and faculty alike. By making the best possible use of technology for its Learn Center and interactive Learning Guides, the university has kept its promise of a truly stimulating learning experience for its online students.

As a virtual university, providing degrees, programs and courses online has its challenges. But, it is in these challenges that CalUniversity has created opportunity. In order to ensure that students don’t miss out on the benefits of an on-campus education, CalUniversity more than compensates for the desire for face-to-face interaction, which is the focal point of the brick and mortar university. Student-teacher interaction has been taken to the next level with the availability of facilities like discussion boards, chats and e-mails. Moreover, CalUniversity’s Learn Center allows the faculty to follow the student-centric learning methods. With regard to student-student interaction, there is more collaboration on assignments and, since communication is also mandatory and sometimes monitored, every student plays an active role in the discussion.

It is this very point that is attracting employers to our students during recruitment because motivation and discipline are pre-requisites of an online education. Studies corroborate that, compared to students from an on-campus environment, students who opt for distance or web education have been found to be highly self-motivated and therefore high achievers.

California University of Technology and our students have the best of both worlds. Since the college is new, it has learned from the experience of other colleges and has been able to keep content up to date with the requirements of the present global economic context. Thus, it has been able to answer the market demand for tech-savvy employees who, besides having a basic understanding of the web, are also conversant with web technology. The emphasis areas that the college offers have been chosen after detailed market study with regard to the present and future requirements of the economy. Take for instance, the emphasis on Healthcare Administration, which is currently quite popular due to the demand in the healthcare space and the career prospects it offers.

However, CalUniversity also has its roots in the traditional academic environment. Hence the methods of instruction have been designed to first introduce students to the basics of the subject and once the theoretical base is strong, allow the students to generate their own ideas and think imaginatively. This is the reason CalUniversity has devised the ‘Knowledge TRA’ (Transfer, Retention and Application) pedagogic methodology--to ensure that the application quotient supersedes the retention quotient in every established graduate and post-graduate program.