A Comparison between Syllabus of AICTE and various Universities - An NLP Based Approach

This paper focuses on comparative studies between the syllabus of AICTE and various Universities across India and will recommend the changes to be done so as to have holistic development. Today's generation needs to be updated with the technical world. In spite of the growing engineer population, unemployment is on the verge. This is because they have degrees but are not technically skilled. It has become necessary that engineering graduate should possess a set of skills which encompass technical skills and practical knowledge. This paper focuses on NLP based approach and lists the topics which are lagging in those universities as compared to the AICTE syllabus. It also lists the topics which are upfront and updated in those universities and together it provides the means to improve the syllabus.Each course is designed with specific Course Outcomes (COs) and each CO is mapped to the Program Outcome (PO). Hence Course Outcome attainment and mapping of Course Outcome with Program Outcome play a vital role in Outcome-based education (OBE). The attainment of Course Outcomes is quantified by assessing students. Program Outcomes need to be achieved so as to measure the attainment of a particular program. Hence, the program outcomes need to be linked properly. This paper also focuses that if a particular topic is not covered, it will show the Course Outcome not attained for that particular topic. This process will surely help in structuring the syllabus to effectively reach the desired Outcome Based Education goals. A dataset of topics for each module for various courses has been collected and processed through punctuation and stop words, tokenization, stemming, and term weighting.