98000 engineering seats lying vacant in AP

Updated on: Wednesday, October 03, 2012

As the second phase of engineering admissions concluded on Tuesday, as many as 98,218 seats in several colleges across the state found no takers. At the end of the first phase of counselling about 1.05 lakh seats were left vacant. Twenty-two colleges in the state drew a blank.

At the end of the counselling, officials of the technical education department said that many students failed to take admission in colleges as there were more seats than the demand.

The electronics and communication engineering (ECE) was the hot favourite this admission season with 38,522 candidates joining the stream. In computer science and engineering (CSE) , 25,827 seats were filled.

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