Engg counselling: Computer science top choice on day 1
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 26.07.2018
Computer science and core engineering courses like electronics and communication and mechanical engineering continue to remain top choices of candidates who attended the dayone of the counselling to fill seats in engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University.
Most of them, including those from Trichy and Madurai, opted for colleges in and around Chennai, particularly College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology and Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet.
Unlike the previous years, this year the entire counselling process was conducted online. Candidates need not travel to Chennai. They can submit their choices at 42 Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) facilitation centres (TFCs) set up across the state.
A total of 10,000 candidates with a cutoff score of 190 or above were invited for the first round counselling which will end on Friday. Coordinators were appointed at TFCs to assist candidates. As there is no cap on number of choices, many gave 10-15 options on average.
Provisions were made in the portal to make corrections till Friday. A day later, tentative allotment orders will be sent to candidates which they can accept or reject. If vacancy arises, next person on the rank list is allotted that seat within 24 hours. This indicates that the final list of seats allocated in the first round will be out only on the sixth day and candidates will have to wait till then.
“Most core companies kept away from campus placements even in top engineering colleges and it was only IT that came to the rescue. Even those belonging to core engineering streams got placed in software firms,” said Thanigai Rajan, a student from Trichy who opted for computer science.
While the students can take part in counselling from the comforts of their homes, many prefer the facilitation centres as this is the first time since admissions have gone online, said A Gnanavel Babu, Anna University representative at a facilitation centre in Madurai.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 26.07.2018
Computer science and core engineering courses like electronics and communication and mechanical engineering continue to remain top choices of candidates who attended the dayone of the counselling to fill seats in engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University.
Most of them, including those from Trichy and Madurai, opted for colleges in and around Chennai, particularly College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology and Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet.
Unlike the previous years, this year the entire counselling process was conducted online. Candidates need not travel to Chennai. They can submit their choices at 42 Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) facilitation centres (TFCs) set up across the state.
A total of 10,000 candidates with a cutoff score of 190 or above were invited for the first round counselling which will end on Friday. Coordinators were appointed at TFCs to assist candidates. As there is no cap on number of choices, many gave 10-15 options on average.
Provisions were made in the portal to make corrections till Friday. A day later, tentative allotment orders will be sent to candidates which they can accept or reject. If vacancy arises, next person on the rank list is allotted that seat within 24 hours. This indicates that the final list of seats allocated in the first round will be out only on the sixth day and candidates will have to wait till then.
“Most core companies kept away from campus placements even in top engineering colleges and it was only IT that came to the rescue. Even those belonging to core engineering streams got placed in software firms,” said Thanigai Rajan, a student from Trichy who opted for computer science.
While the students can take part in counselling from the comforts of their homes, many prefer the facilitation centres as this is the first time since admissions have gone online, said A Gnanavel Babu, Anna University representative at a facilitation centre in Madurai.
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