Commerce the most sought-after course in Bangalore University

Updated on: Wednesday, September 14, 2011

For the first time in recent years, no post-graduate seat will remain vacant for Commerce stream in Bangalore University.

When centralized counselling for PG courses concluded for Commerce, Science and Arts faculty on Tuesday, all the 697 seats available for commerce in all the quotas were sold off. Economics was the next in demand with 263 aspirants.
Sanskrit, God's own language that had zero takers during last year's counselling session, fared better this time with the department finding 12 takers.

The worst hit were Microbiology and Biotechnology, which were once called the sunshine courses. Only 169 seats were filled of the 800-odd seats available in Biotechnology. In Microbiology, it were 93 and 372 respectively. Figures of Biochemistry too were not better.

Tourism administration that has 144 seats found only 12 takers, the percentage filled not even being 10. The traditional science subjects too were in demand though not as much as last year. For instance, while Maths was houseful last year, it failed to score centum this time.

Kannada (240) and English (92) were popular. There were more takers for Japanese than French or Telugu. Courses like Labour, Capital and Law, Speech and Hearing, Molecular Biology and Busines Law just scraped through from having zero takers.

Counselling for courses under faculty of Education (B.PEd, M.PEd, M.Ed) and Law (LLM) will be held on Wednesday, 9am.

Times of India

Commerce the most sought-after course in Bangalore University

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