More students opt for engineering

Updated on: Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The government’s single window counselling for engineering colleges seem to be throwing up one surprise after another.

While on one hand the number of absentees on the second day of counselling crossed the 1,000 mark with 736 candidates abstaining on Saturday, on the other hand, a total of 16 candidates who had joined private medical colleges surrendered their seats to take up engineering.

On the second day, 2,672 students were called for counselling of whom 1920 joined various engineering colleges; 736 candidates were absent and 16 skipped without taking any seat. Last year on the same day, 2,913 students had been called and 496 had not attended counselling.

Anna University had called a total of 3,317 students on the first two days (July 13 and 14) this year of whom 1,007 — about one third — abstained from counselling.

“There are chances that these students might have joined either medical colleges or deemed universities or some centrally-funded institution. On the other hand, 16 students surrendered their medical seats to join engineering,” said Prof.

Rhymend Uthariaraj, secretary, Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA). Most of these students preferred Anna University departments, he added.

Of the 2,292 seats allotted in the last two days, 1,083 students joined Anna University campuses, 936 in government and aided colleges and 266 in self-financing engineering institutions. No one joined the Tamil-medium streams on the first two days.

Seats under OC, BC and MBC categories in College of Engineering, Guindy, got filled for ECE, CSE, EEE and Mechanical. At MIT, Chromepet OC and BC seats in almost all the streams have got filled within two days.

Electronics and Communication Engineering continues to be the most sought after course this year with 593 students taking it.

More students opt for engineering

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