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21st century saw the emergence of nanotechnology in a big way resulting into the needs of drastic changes in the education system because of merging all sciences at nano scale. The birth of Nano science was the day of the discovery of Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) in 1981 by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer, who's efforts made it possible to see individual atom and manipulate it for the new generation of science. This science deals with all kind of structures that measures just a few nanometers built by a few atoms or molecules. During the last five years globally the impact of nano science is seen everywhere and has spread with much faster speed. It is fascinating to see how contemporary courses in different fields e.g. physics, chemistry, biology etc are slowly and slowly loosing their significance. All this has led to the new directions in education leading to creation of new university curricula for nano science. It with this in mind a Centre for Converging Technology (CCT) was created at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, to educate young students in biology, information technology, nano technology and neurosciences. Hence was the name convergence of Bio, Info, Nano and Cognitive Science, where student will be learning the merging of all sciences at nano level. The Centre have 10 semester Master in CCT, where a student has to pursue two years of common course and in third year he has to divert in the specialized field of one of the four streams i.e. NBIC. After three year he has an option to take a B.Sc degree and go to industry for a job. After 10 semesters a student will be awarded M.Sc Honors in CCT from where he can choose to go either for teaching or research in nano science. The details of education system adopted, prerequisites of entry into CCT, course curricula and needs of modern laboratory has been discussed in the present paper.
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