IT course has less preference among students

Updated on: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Unfortunately, 32 engineering colleges have ended up with over 80 per cent of their seats unfilled at the closure of single-window counselling for admission to government quota seats .

Prof P. Mannar Jawahar, vice-chancellor of Anna University, said that in 32 engineering colleges less than 20 per cent seats got filled, in 22 colleges less than 30 per cent of students joined and less than 50 per cent of students joined 47 colleges.
'All seats got filled in 26 engineering colleges across the state, of which 24 are government, government-aided and university colleges,' he said, adding that of the 1,26,819 applied, 1,18,749 students called for counselling and 39,657 abstained for reasons best known to them. Last year 35 per cent were absent whereas this year only 33 per cent were absent for counselling.

As many as 78,664 (47,808-male and 30,856female) joined various engineering colleges this year creating a vacancy of 31,210, however 5,000 more students have joined various colleges.

"This year we had 1,09,829 government quota seats in 440 engineering colleges, of which 92 are new colleges. There are 1.6 lakh seats totally, including the management quota seats in engineering colleges," he said.

Dr V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, secretary, Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions, said that compared to last year less number of students had preferred Information Technology course. Of the available 15,446 seats, 6,476 students (41.93 per cent) joined IT.

More students joined electronics and communication engineering, 19,129 candidates joined electronics and communication engineering, which was the most sought-after course in this year's engineering counselling.

As many as 92.79 per cent of the seats got filled in mechanical engineering, 14,200 students joined as against 15,304 available seats. In the quota for other states there were no takers for 12 of 52 seats and to fill them the university has called for the third phase of counselling on August 19.

IT course has less preference among students

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