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Centre for Applied AI

Industry-grade AI education,
badged with your institution.

A Centre for Applied AI on your campus. Your name on the certificate, your students in the room, our curriculum, platform and delivery engine behind it.

The problem

Your graduates are competing with people who have shipped things.

The distance between a good engineering degree and an AI job is not knowledge — it is evidence. A Centre for Applied AI exists to close that gap inside the degree, not after it.

On your campus

A physical centre, co-branded with your institution, built to a specification we agree together — labs, project space and a room for industry sessions.

Inside your programs

Applied AI electives, minors, capstone tracks and short certifications that map onto your existing credit structure rather than fighting it.

With your faculty

Faculty development and train-the-trainer tracks, so the capability stays on campus after the first cohort graduates.

What a centre includes

Co-branded centreYour institution + AST
CurriculumElectives, minors, capstones
Faculty enablementTrain-the-trainer + certification
Industry projectsLive briefs, reviewed work
Student outcomesPortfolios & placement readiness
CertificationNASSCOM pathway, select areas
What students leave with

Evidence, not attendance

  • A public portfolio of applied AI projects, reviewed against industry criteria
  • Capstone work built on real briefs rather than textbook datasets
  • Certification in select areas through the NASSCOM partnership, under prior agreement
  • Interview preparation grounded in what they actually built
  • A route into the AST network — as trainers, mentors or franchise partners
Engagement

How a campus partnership is structured

1

Scoping with your leadership

We agree the academic fit — which departments, which years, how the centre maps to credits, and what success looks like in cohort one.

2

Memorandum of understanding

Branding, certification scope, commercials, intake numbers and responsibilities are written down before anything is built.

3

Build and enable

Centre fit-out, platform deployment, faculty training and curriculum integration, run to an agreed academic calendar.

4

Run, review, expand

Cohort delivery with termly reviews on progression, project quality and placement outcomes — then scale to more departments.

Next step

Talk to us about a Centre for Applied AI

Send us the shape of your institution and we will come back with an academic fit note and a proposed structure for cohort one.

Most conversations start with a single department and one cohort. That is deliberate — it is easier to prove the model on one program than to negotiate a campus-wide rollout on a slide.

We reply within two working days.