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| Thursday, Aug 03, 2006
Counselling trend throws up curious pointers
Chennai: The end of the first phase of counselling for undergraduate engineering courses has thrown up a curious permutation as far as choice of courses goes. While the actual numbers of those seeking admissions has gone up compared to last year, more and more colleges are struggling to fill seats even in the high-intensity circuit branches.
Of the 57,257 seats available under the single window system, 15,206 have been allotted as on Tuesday.
A total of 42,051 seats remain vacant at the end of the first phase. Of the 19,817 students called for counselling till now, 76.73 per cent has opted for a seat as compared to only 72 per cent during the same period last year.
According to an analysis by Salem-based analyst Jayaprakash Gandhi,
the numbers of those who absented themselves or opted out during the last three days of the first phase this year was less compared to a similar period last year. Around 44,496 students will compete for the remaining 42,051 seats and at least 18,000 seats are likely to remain vacant when counselling ends in August.
What is more interesting is the choice of subjects that have been snapped up and those that are abegging.
While all seats have been filled up in geoinformatics and manufacturing engineering, branches such as petroleum engineering, paper pulp, rubber technology and textile chemistry have no takers. While 128 colleges have been able to fill up less than five percent of seats, 61 institutions have not filled a single seat.
"Though 78.5 per cent of the seats allotted till August 1 have been in the circuit branches,
many colleges have come a cropper even in branches such as Information Technology, Computer Science and Electronics and Communication Engineering," Mr. Gandhi says.
Though 3,727 of the available 10,867 seats in computer science have been filled up,
74 colleges have not been able to fill a single seat in the branch.
Similarly, no student has opted for an ECE seat in 65 colleges and not a single Electrical and Electronics Engineering seat has been taken in 154 colleges. Even for the most sought after Information Technology course, 81 colleges are without students. The scene is only slightly different in the non-circuit branches. In mechanical engineering, for example, only 19.4 per cent seats have been filled till now, with students completely bypassing 115 colleges.
Only 21.5 per cent of civil engineering seats have been filled up, with 43 colleges not filling up any seat.
Till now, 26 per cent of available seats in biotechnology and 34.2 per cent of seats in aeronautical engineering have been filled,
an indicator of the declining preference for these courses.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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