India, April 28 -- What do Bengaluru's Scaler, Gurugram's Master's Union, Bengaluru's Mesa, Kolkata's Nexis and Mumbai's IIDE (Indian Institute of Digital Education) have in common?

To begin with, all are "booster shots" or even alternative ways to spend one's time after completing school (Class XII) instead of enrolling in a regular bachelor's degree - which has been reduced in many instances to a worthless piece of paper - in one of the country's myriad but mostly indifferent quality colleges.

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Another commonality is that all these companies are exploiting the inability of Indian colleges, with their dated syllabuses, to keep up with the times. All of them offer an experience different from the usual fare dished out at legac...