Ninety-two percent of companies plan to increase their AI
investments over the next three years, according to McKinsey & Company. Yet
only 1% of leaders describe their organisations as "mature" on the AI
deployment spectrum, where AI is fully integrated into workflows and delivers
substantial business outcomes. Separately, Gartner forecasts that by 2028, 33%
of enterprise software applications will include Agentic AI, up from less than
1% in 2024.
These two data points describe the same moment from
different perspectives. Organisations are accelerating AI investment, while
enterprise software is rapidly moving towards agentic capabilities. At the same
time, very few leaders believe their own AI deployments have reached production
maturity. The challenge is no longer building another prototype. It is
engineering systems that remain reliable, evaluated, secure and observable once
they move into production.
This is the engineering gap that the iHUB DivyaSampark, IIT
Roorkee Post Graduate Certificate in Agentic and RAG Systems for AI Engineering
is designed to address. Rather than positioning AI as a collection of tools or
experimentation techniques, the six-month live online programme focuses on the
engineering discipline required to build, evaluate, secure and operate
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic AI systems in production
environments. It is intended for technology professionals with intermediate
programming familiarity who already build software, manage codebases or lead
technology teams, and now need deeper engineering capabilities as enterprises
move beyond proof-of-concept AI.
What distinguishes the
programme is its emphasis on engineering judgement alongside
implementation. Across six curriculum pillars and thirteen modules,
participants work through the decisions that often determine whether an AI
system succeeds in production. The curriculum explores when prompting is
sufficient, when RAG engineering is more appropriate, when fine-tuning should
or should not be used, and when multi-agent systems introduce unnecessary
complexity rather than value.
Reliability is embedded throughout the programme, covering
evaluation using golden datasets and LLM-as-judge methods, RAG failure
analysis, human-in-the-loop workflows with approval gates and audit trails, and
prompt-injection defence. A dedicated module also covers MCP, AI security and
governance, including retrieval poisoning, tool abuse, guardrails, and GDPR and
DPDP compliance. Participants reinforce these concepts through six module-end
projects and a capstone that integrates RAG, agent orchestration, model
adaptation, deployment and monitoring into one production-oriented system.
Approximately 12 hours of live online masterclasses are delivered by IIT
faculty, while the programme's weekly live sessions are led by industry experts
and programme leaders.
The learning opportunity is offered by iHUB DivyaSampark,
IIT Roorkee, a Technology Innovation Hub established under the National Mission
on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), initiated by the
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Live masterclasses
would be conducted by faculty members from IITs and other premier
institutions.
The
programme is intended for software engineers, AI and data professionals,
technology architects, product managers and technical leaders who already
possess intermediate programming familiarity and want to deepen their ability
to evaluate, build and operate production-grade Agentic AI and RAG systems.
Participants who successfully complete the programme are also eligible to
attend an optional two-day campus immersion at IIT Roorkee's Noida campus.
The next cohort begins on 22nd December 2026. The
programme runs for six months, requires approximately 8–10 hours per week, and
is delivered 100% live online through two live sessions each week, module-end
projects and an end-to-end capstone. Upon successfully completing all graded
mini projects, achieving a minimum overall score of 50%, scoring at least 50%
in the capstone and maintaining at least 50% attendance, participants receive
an e-Certificate (Certificate of Completion) issued by iHUB DivyaSampark, IIT
Roorkee.
For more information on learner benefits, visit ihubiitroorkee.certificates@emeritus.org