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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
National

India’s senior techies with 12 years of experience are going back to class, and AI is the reason

India's artificial intelligence upskilling rush is increasingly drawing experienced technology professionals, with IIT Kharagpur and upGrad seeing a threefold quarter-on-quarter jump in enrolments for their executive AI programmes.

The surge has prompted IIT Kharagpur and upGrad to expand their executive AI portfolio from four programmes to seven, just months after the collaboration was announced in April 2026.

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