VLSI design training: not "all is well"

B.E./B.Tech Electronics engineering students in India are having enough time and resources during their four-year study period to learn and complete VLSI design course deep and wide enough to get a decent job in semiconductor chip design industry. But yet you see many of these fresh engineers after graduation still opting for another course in VLSI design training in private training institutes. Why is this? Is the syllabus in their curriculum does not cover enough? If you look at the syllabus of electronics and communication engineering branch in engineering colleges in Karnataka, it includes VLSI specific subjects such as C programming, analog electronic circuits, logic design, and analog electronics lab, logic design lab, fundamentals of HDL, linear ICs, HDL lab, fundamentals of CMOS VLSI design and VLSI lab. Along with these compulsory subjects, there is also option for the students to choose subjects such as analog and mixed signal VLSI design, low-power VLSI design, verilog, CAD/EDA for VLSI, RF ICs as electives. The syllabus is very good enough covering most of the aspects of VLSI design. The only subject missing is material science focusing on electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing. By looking into the subjects what they study, it is easy to assume the fresh electronics engineer is capable enough to design a VLSI chip without much training. Indi...