{"id":1014145,"date":"2026-06-12T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014145"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:19:20","slug":"iit-kanpur-to-start-ug-programme-in-cybersecurity-from-this-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/iit-kanpur-to-start-ug-programme-in-cybersecurity-from-this-session\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kanpur to start UG programme in cybersecurity from this session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will launch a dedicated undergraduate programme, Bachelor of Cybersecurity (B Cyber), from the current 2026-27 academic session beginning July, with admissions based on Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main screening, prior cybersecurity work and an on-campus hackathon rather than traditional JEE Advanced scores, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the course \u2014 a first for the IIT\u2009system \u2014 which will have 60 seats, aims to create a pipeline of high-quality cyber-security experts for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will launch a dedicated undergraduate programme, Bachelor of Cybersecurity (B Cyber), from the current 2026-27 academic session beginning July, with admissions based on Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main screening, prior cybersecurity work and an on-campus hackathon rather than traditional JEE Advanced scores, officials said on Thursday. Officials said the course \u2014 a first for the IIT\u2009system \u2014 which will have 60 seats, aims to create a pipeline of high-quality cyber-security experts for the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014146,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014145\/revisions\/1014146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}