Courses after 12th that end in a portfolio, not a certificate
Six-month and one-year career programmes for students out of school — any stream, no coding background assumed. You learn on live client work from week three, and finish with projects you can actually open in an interview.
- 6 months – 1 year
- 12th pass, any stream
- Classroom & live online
- Programmes after 12th
- 19
- Student rating
- 4.9/5
- Trained since 2007
- 25,000+
- Daily class time
- 2 hrs
Jump to a stream
The gap year that is not a gap year
Most students leave 12th with a board result and no idea what a working day in a studio, an agency or an engineering office actually looks like. These programmes exist to close that gap in months rather than years — you pick one skill, go deep, and leave with work that stands on its own.
Every programme at TechCadd Amritsar runs on the same shape: two hours a day, small batches, a mentor who still does client work, and a project brief that changes every few weeks. Theory is taught only far enough to explain the decision in front of you — the rest of the time you are building.
Run alongside a degree, run instead of a drop year, or run before you decide on a degree at all. Roughly a third of each intake is enrolled in a college course at the same time, which is exactly what the evening and weekend batches are for.
- No entrance test — a counselling call and a free demo class
- Same syllabus in classroom and live online batches
- Lab machines stay open outside your batch hours
- Internship letter accepted by Punjab universities
At a glance
- Eligibility
- 12th pass, any stream
- Duration
- 6 months to 1 year
- Class length
- 2 hours, five days a week
- Batches
- Morning, evening & weekend
- Mode
- Classroom & live online
- Certification
- TechCadd industry certificate
- Internship
- Included on the 1-year track
- Placement support
- Included for every student
Four streams, nineteen ways in
Pick by the work you want to be doing in a year, not by what sounds most impressive. Counselling exists to argue you out of the wrong one.
6 Month Certificates
One skill, job-ready in half a year
The shortest honest route to a first salary. One discipline, taught end to end, with a portfolio brief running underneath from the second month.
1 Year Certificates
Full programmes with an internship track
Two semesters: the first builds the discipline, the second puts you inside a live delivery team with an internship letter at the end of it.
Graphics
Design, video and motion for screen and print
Craft tracks for students who came out of 12th already making things. Portfolio weight matters more than marks here, and that is what these are built to produce.
Civil / Mechanical
Design and drafting for engineering streams
For PCM students heading into a diploma, a B.Tech or straight into a site office. Drafting skill is what gets you paid on day one, whichever of those you pick.
Three phases, one running project
Every after-12th track is staged the same way. The subject changes; the rhythm does not.
- Phase 01Months 1–2
Foundations & tooling
Concepts, vocabulary and the working environment. Your machine is set up in week one so no part of the course is spent fighting installations, and the first small brief lands before the phase ends.
- Core concepts
- Tools installed & configured
- First graded brief
- Phase 02Months 3–4
Real work, real constraints
You move onto live client material with the messiness left in — incomplete inputs, changing requirements and a deadline. Reviews get stricter here, because this is the phase that decides how your portfolio reads.
- Live client brief
- Weekly critique
- Industry standards
- Phase 03Months 5–6
Portfolio & placement
The capstone is assembled, documented and rehearsed. In parallel: CV rebuild, portfolio review, two mock interviews with practitioners, and entry into the hiring drives we run each quarter.
- Capstone project
- Mock interviews
- Hiring drives
Six ways students arrive here
Same classroom, six different starting points. The counselling call exists to work out which of these is yours before you pay anything.
- Straight from school
12th passed this year
You have the result and no plan yet. Take six months, get one employable skill on paper, and decide on the degree with more information than you have today.
- Alongside a degree
Studying in college
Evening and weekend batches are built for this. You graduate with a portfolio already three years old instead of starting to build one after your final semester.
- Dropped a year
Preparing for an entrance
A drop year reads badly on a CV when it is empty. A certificate and two projects in the same window turn it into something you can explain confidently.
- Family business
Joining the shop or unit
Tally, Excel and digital marketing pay for themselves inside a quarter for most Amritsar traders, exporters and manufacturers.
- Restarting
Back after a break
A break of a year or five is not a disqualification. The programmes assume nothing carried over and start from the actual beginning.
- Self-taught
Learned online, stalled
You know pieces but nothing joins up and nothing is finished. A fixed batch, a mentor and a deadline on every module are what get it over the line.
Where students land, and on what
Placeholder figures for this pass, in the range the Amritsar and wider Punjab market has been paying entrants with a portfolio.
First role
₹15,000 – ₹28,000
per month
Trainee or junior title, portfolio-dependent. The portfolio moves this number far more than the certificate does.
After two years
₹30,000 – ₹55,000
per month
Executive or associate level once you own deliverables end to end and can brief someone junior.
Freelance
₹8,000 – ₹40,000
per project
Common on the design, video and marketing tracks, usually alongside a salaried role rather than instead of one.
Titles students are hired into
- Trainee Executive
- Junior Developer
- Data Analyst
- Graphic Designer
- Video Editor
- CAD Draughtsman
- SOC Analyst (L1)
- Freelance Consultant
Who hires around Amritsar
- Export houses
- Sports goods manufacturing
- Immigration consultancies
- Hospitals & diagnostics
- Schools & coaching
- Real estate & construction
- IT services
- D2C & retail brands
Published ranges, instalments available
Indicative placeholder ranges. The exact figure for a programme is confirmed at counselling, and every plan can be split into instalments.
Short certificate
₹9,000 – ₹18,000
3 – 4 months · Tally, Excel, AutoCAD, Revit, video editing
- Full classroom or online batch
- Lab access outside class hours
- Certificate on completion
- Portfolio review
- Most enrolled
6 month programme
₹18,000 – ₹40,000
6 months · Digital marketing, Python, ML & AI, cybersecurity, design
- Everything in the short certificate
- Live client project brief
- Capstone with documented review
- CV rebuild and two mock interviews
- Entry into quarterly hiring drives
1 year programme
₹42,000 – ₹75,000
1 year · Generative AI, cloud & DevOps, data science, animation
- Everything in the 6 month programme
- Second-semester internship track
- Internship letter for university credit
- Extended placement support
Free demo class before you pay anything. Instalment plans are agreed at the counselling stage — ask the admissions desk for the current structure.
What parents and students ask at the admissions desk
Frequently asked questions about courses after 12thIf something is not covered here, the Amritsar desk answers it directly — no call-back queue.
Yes. A 12th pass from any stream is the only requirement, and admissions run through the year rather than in one intake window. Students frequently join in the gap between the result and college admissions closing.
Sit one class before you decide anything
Walk into a running batch, watch how a session actually works, and talk to students already halfway through. Free, no commitment — the Amritsar desk is open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 7pm.
- Free demo class in a live batch
- Counselling on which track fits your marks and plan
- Written fee and instalment plan before you enrol
- Address
- 3rd Floor, District Shopping Complex, SCO 28, B - Block, Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar, Punjab 143001
- Phone
- +91 99152 22509
- Hours
- Mon – Sat, 9 AM – 7 PM
