Every meaningful decision made at scale today is made with data. The systems that collect it, move it, store it, and make it usable are the invisible infrastructure of the modern world — and they are breaking under the weight of how fast data is growing.

The Opportunity

Data and cloud engineering are foundational to every industry running at scale. Demand for engineers who can design, build, and operate large-scale data systems far outpaces supply.

The Urgency

AI models are only as good as the data pipelines feeding them. The engineers who can build and maintain that infrastructure are becoming the most critical hires in any AI-first organisation.

Polaris Edge

This is not a CS degree with a cloud elective. It is designed around one question: can you build the systems that the world's data actually runs on?

Curriculum

Projects

Careers

Admissions

Batch Profile

Curriculum

Projects

Careers

Admissions

Batch Profile

Curriculum Structure

What four years at Polaris actually looks like. Not a syllabus. A roadmap - what you'll learn, what you'll build, and where you'll go.

Year 1

Seed

Build the technical and mathematical literacy that everything else rests on. Discover what you're capable of.

Courses

Fundamentals of Programming

Fundamentals of Data Structures

Math for AI/ML

Frontend App and Website Development

Basics of Databases

Distributed Systems Fundamentals

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 1

Seed

Build the technical and mathematical literacy that everything else rests on. Discover what you're capable of.

Courses

Fundamentals of Programming

Fundamentals of Data Structures

Math for AI/ML

Frontend App and Website Development

Basics of Databases

Distributed Systems Fundamentals

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 2

Grow

Where programming becomes engineering. You move from writing code to designing systems - and begin working with the architectures that power data at scale.

Courses

Full Stack Development

Data Science Foundations - Models and Applications

Gen AI Systems & Architectures

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

System Design Thinking

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 2

Grow

Where programming becomes engineering. You move from writing code to designing systems - and begin working with the architectures that power data at scale.

Courses

Full Stack Development

Data Science Foundations - Models and Applications

Gen AI Systems & Architectures

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

System Design Thinking

Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 3

Disrupt

This is the year you design pipelines that never sleep, build systems that self-heal, and learn what it actually takes to operate infrastructure that the world depends on.

Courses

Computer Architecture

Operating System and Networks

Data Modeling & Storage Systems

Stream & Batch Data Processing

Observability & Reliability Engineering

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 3

Disrupt

This is the year you design pipelines that never sleep, build systems that self-heal, and learn what it actually takes to operate infrastructure that the world depends on.

Courses

Computer Architecture

Operating System and Networks

Data Modeling & Storage Systems

Stream & Batch Data Processing

Observability & Reliability Engineering

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 4

Launch

You are embedded in an engineering organisation, a cloud team, or your own company - running systems at scale, with real data, real incidents, and real consequences.

Courses

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

Year 4

Launch

You are embedded in an engineering organisation, a cloud team, or your own company - running systems at scale, with real data, real incidents, and real consequences.

Courses

You'll build:

Build your own Social Media platform

Build an Automated Testing suite

Contribute to Global Open Source organizations

Crack internships, at companies

What’s a week at Polaris like?

At Polaris, your portfolio is your degree

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Build AI-based real world Customer Support Chatbot

Harsh Gupta

2nd Year Student, B.Tech AI

Career Prospects

Industry placement

Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.

Roles you step into

Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer

Higher Studies

Partnered with a university or research lab working on distributed systems, databases, or large-scale computing. You run experiments and publish work that gets you noticed by the best graduate programs in the world.

Roles you step into

Research Engineer
Systems Researcher
Database Researcher
Masters candidate

Entrepreneurship

Building your own company - with Polaris's founder network, connections to EF, Peak XV, and Emergent, and ₹1M in specialisation fund credits behind you. Not a side project. A real company, with a cap table and customers.

Roles you step into

Tech Founder
CTO
Founding Infrastructure Engineer
Data Infrastructure CEO

Career Prospects

Industry placement

Higher Studies

Entrepreneurship

Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.

Roles you step into

Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer

Career Prospects

Industry placement

Higher Studies

Entrepreneurship

Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.

Roles you step into

Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer

Career Prospects

Industry placement

Embedded with a cloud company, data-intensive startup, or enterprise engineering team. You own pipelines, respond to incidents, and keep systems running at scale.

Roles you step into

Data Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
ML Platform Engineer
Backend Engineer
Data Platform Engineer

Higher Studies

Roles you step into

Research Engineer
Systems Researcher
Database Researcher
Masters candidate

Entrepreneurship

Roles you step into

Tech Founder
CTO
Founding Infrastructure Engineer
Data Infrastructure CEO

What Students do From Year 1

A Tailored Career Pathway, Day 1

Technical readiness

Internship preparation, open source onboarding, portfolio building, GitHub and resume reviews, mock technical interviews - so you're hireable from Year 1, not Year 4.

Personal brand

You can be the best engineer in the room and still be invisible. We help you build a presence - so the right people find you before you need to find them.

Communication & public speaking

Articulate your ideas clearly. Present your work with confidence. Pitch to a room.

Networking on campus

3000+ industry professionals have visited Polaris - engineers, founders, investors, and researchers. Every guest lecture and hackathon is a chance to make a connection that matters.

Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.

A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.

Start your Application

Take PAT

Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.

1:1 Interview

Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.

Pre-Engineering Cohort

Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.

Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.

A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.

Take PAT

Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.

1:1 Interview

Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.

Pre-Engineering Cohort

Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join these highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.

Start your Application

Not Everybody Gets In.

Limited by Design.

A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.

Take PAT

Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.

1:1 Interview

Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.

Pre-Engineering Cohort

Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join these highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.

Start your Application

Not Everybody Gets In.Limited by Design.

A 3-step process - designed to evaluate who you are, not just what you've scored.

Start your Application

Take PAT

Take the Polaris Admission Test (PAT) A 120-minute test - choose Aptitude or Coding track. Your score is released immediately.

1:1 Interview

Interview by Industry Professionals - A conversation with Industry Experts from Google, Amazon, Visa and other tech companies - about you, what you've built, and why AI.

Pre-Engineering Cohort

Register for Pre-Engineering Cohort - After the interview, join highly curated sessions to get a preview of the curriculum and pedagogy at Polaris.

Who should apply.

Criteria

Qualification

Criteria

Qualification

Grade XII from any recognised board in 2024, 2025 or 2026

Criteria

Stream

Criteria

Stream

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (PCM) — mandatory

Criteria

Admission test

Criteria

Admission test

Polaris Admission Test (PAT), JEE or SAT

Criteria

Nationality

Criteria

Nationality

Open to Indian and international applicants

Polaris Early Entry Program (PEEP) Get your seat for the Batch of 2027.

The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.

Apply Now

Know more about PEEP

Polaris Early Entry Program (PEEP) Get your seat for the Batch of 2027.

The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.

Apply Now

Know more about PEEP

Admission Eligibility AGet your seat for the Batch of 2027.

The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.

Apply Now

Know more about PEEP

Admission Eligibility AGet your seat for the Batch of 2027.

The Polaris Early Entry Program is for Class 11 PCM students who want to lock in their seat a full year before everyone else. Take the PAT early. Secure your conditional admission.

Apply Now

Know more about PEEP

We don't test what you know. We test how you think.

Most entrance exams reward memorisation. The Polaris Admission Test (PAT) is different. It's designed to surface the students who can reason clearly and solve problems they've never seen before.

Duration

120 minutes

Tracks

Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)

Fee

Included in the ₹1,500 application fee

Next exam date

25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)

Download PAT Prep Kit

Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.

Fast Track your Application

You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:

• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)

Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.

Apply Now

Duration

120 minutes

Tracks

Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)

Fee

Included in the ₹1,500 application fee

Next exam date

25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)

Download PAT Prep Kit

Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.

Fast Track your Application

You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:

• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)

Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.

Apply Now

Duration

120 minutes

Tracks

Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)

Fee

Included in the ₹1,500 application fee

Next exam date

25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)

Download PAT Prep Kit

Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.

Fast Track your Application

You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:

• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)

Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.

Apply Now

Duration

120 minutes

Tracks

Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)

Fee

Included in the ₹1,500 application fee

Next exam date

25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)

Download PAT Prep Kit

Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.

Fast Track your Application

You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:

90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced
1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)

Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.

Apply Now

Duration

120 minutes

Tracks

Aptitude or Coding (Choose one)

Fee

Included in the ₹1,500 application fee

Next exam date

25 Mar 2026 (Last date to apply: 21 Mar 2026)

Download PAT Prep Kit

Don't just attempt PAT. Ace it.

Fast Track your Application

You don't need to take PAT if you have scored:

• 90th percentile or above in JEE Mains or Advanced, or
• 1200 or above in SAT (taken within the last 3 years)

Simply upload your scorecard during the application. Our admissions team will verify and move you directly to the interview stage.

Apply Now

Fees Structure

Fee Component

Registration Fee

Admission Fee

Tuition Fee

Sem 1

Sem 2

Sem 3

Sem 4

Sem 5

Sem 6

Sem 7

Sem 8

₹10,000

₹81,000

₹4,25,000

₹3,52,000

₹2,93,000

₹2,34,500

*Application form fee: ₹1,500 (one-time, non-refundable)
**Batch 2026–2030. Does not include hostel, mess, and bus fees.

Financial support & Scholarships

Financial barriers should never stand between a great student and a great education. Polaris offers merit and need-based scholarships - some of which cover a significant portion of your tuition fee.

Scholarship

Mukul Rustagi Scholarship for Excellence

Women in Tech Scholarship

Sourav Ganguly Young Leader in Tech

Classplus Techpreneur Scholarship

PST Merit Waiver

PST Need-cum-Merit Waiver

Waiver

Bonus

Seats

For

₹8 Lakhs