Chandigarh, India, 13th August 2018: Chit Kara University today announced its new collaboration with Red Hat Academy to offer open source certification programs to engineering students. In association with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source, enterprise IT solutions, Chitkara University is gearing up to offer certification programs in Cloud, Linux, Middleware, Storage and Virtualization technologies.

Red Hat Academy is an open source, web-deployed and web-managed education program that is designed to provide turnkey curriculum materials to Chitkara University to start and sustain an open source and Linux curriculum program. The Red Hat Academy curriculum involves hands-on instruction across platform, middleware, and cloud technologies. Rather than learning theoretical skills, students learn practical skills based on use cases from thousands of enterprise implementations.

Chitkara University has established an unassailable reputation for associating with the industry best for benefit of its students. This has been achieved through the virtue of intensive focus on making students ‘industry ready’. Chitkara University maintains close link with leading corporations and professional associations to deliver most of their professional programs. These alliances help to stay in touch with industry, ensuring that the courses are relevant, practical and deliver the skills in demand, thus enabling the graduates to hit the ground running.

“We have a long-standing commitment to our students to help them enhance their education and strengthen their position in the job market. We believe Red Hat Academy offers our students the best chance to learn in-demand open source skills that will help them all through their career. It is a proud moment for all of us at Chitkara University to be associated with world leader in open source technologies,” said Dr. Madhu Chitkara, Vice Chancellor, Chitkara University.

“We’re pleased to have collaborated with Chitkara University for the Red Hat Academy Program,” said Shirish V Pandey, Lead, Red Hat Academy APAC. “We are impressed with Chitkara University’s approach of giving the best to their students and thus shaping the right talent needed by to corporates in the campus itself. We can confidently count on Chitkara University as an important associate of RedHat’s training and certified ecosystem.”