• To assist working professionals in the industry in widening their knowledge base and in improving their skills.
• To assist the industry to be globally competitive and be at the cutting edge of technology by providing training and expertise in critical areas.
• To promote strong industry-institute interaction.

Continuing Education Programmes are being conducted all over the country and abroad.

OPEN Programmes (Short & Long Term)

Courses on topics of interest to the industry and research are conducted, inviting participation from industries and other organisations. Typically, such open programmes would be of 2 - 5 days duration and would be intensive in nature. Many of these courses would include hands on experience with various facilities existing at IIT Bombay with the newly developed appropriate software packages. These courses are conductd at IIT Bombay.

INHOUSE Programmes (Short & Long Term)

Courses are run exclusively for a specific company or organization. These can be at their site or at IIT Bombay campus. The course proposals may be made by specific industries and after initial interaction, the courses would be tailor-made and conducted to their requirement.

Certificate Courses (Long Term)

Intensive courses on selected topics viz. Information Technology, Computer Aided Design etc. are run, leading to a certificate on successful completion and evaluation.

PG Level Evening Programmes (Full Semester)

Professionals can register for post-graduate level courses conducted in the evening hours. Those fulfilling specified criteria for the credits acquired, can go on to get an M.Tech. Degree from IIT Bombay.

Distance Education Programmes(DEP)

The goal of DEP is to offer courses to a large number of participants across the country. Each course is offered through video broadcast lectures supported by course handbook. The broadcast is through satellite transmission to a large number of registered Remote Centres (RCs). Each RC projects the lectures on the screen, in a classroom for upto fifty participants guided by a local supervisor. Participants have the opportunity to ask questions during the lecture, which can be immediately answered by the distant instructor, as in a real classroom."

Preparation of Course Modules and Video Packages

Course modules and Video packages are prepared which can be made use of by other agencies.

• Reaching out to more working professionals through Web based Distance Continuing Education and transmission via VSAT (DEP)
• Development of courses in emerging high-tech areas.