Students of GITAM University developed a special mobile application (app) for facilitating the admissions of the university through cellphones. The team of four engineering students developed the app as part of their first assignment. Using the application, candidates seeking admission to the university can obtain all information regarding the university including faculty, facilities, admission procedure, eligibility, contact numbers, application and online submission besides placements.

B Sourabh, P Mohan, and N Anirudh from the computer science engineering department along with M Raghuteja from electronics and communication engineering department, developed the app which can be downloaded from the Google Playstore or from http://goo.gl/pnc84M to the mobiles.

“The mobile app development involves programming and developing software applications for fast operating handheld devices like smart phones and tablets. It is quite similar to web application development but the major difference is that mobile applications are often used to carryout specific tasks/functions for a particular service,” said Sourabh.

The GITAM Admission Test is an online admission test, scheduled to be conducted from April 20 to May 10, for admission into various courses offered by the university. The last date for submission of application form is March 31.

The mobile app, developed by the engineering students team, will help candidates to access the university website through their cellphones and submit their application.

Launching the mobile app, university vice-chancellor G Subrahmanyam appreciated the efforts put in by the students and said that mobile application development is one of the fastest growing career opportunity in the IT industry. He mentioned that the University students are actively engaged in mobile application development activities and many have launched their startup companies in the city.

The university students developed a special website for Visakha Utsav, which received accolades from the district officials. The University is also planning to institute an incubation centre to encourage the students to launch their own startup companies.

Registrar M Potharaju, admissions director K Narendra, assistant director M Jagadeesh participated in the meeting.