Just one round to go, 90% seats in 52% TN engg colleges vacant
Ragu Raman | Jul 24, 2019, 04.07 AM IST
Chennai: Of the 470 colleges in the state that took part in engineering counselling, 250 or 52% of the colleges could not even fill 10% of seats at the end of the third round.
Of the 250, 35 colleges failed to fill even one seat, while 117 colleges managed to fill less than 10 seats in the online counselling. Including the final allotment given to 24,131 students on Tuesday by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee, only 45,663 or 27% seats have been filled against the 1,67,101 seats available for counselling. With just a round to go, 1,27,438 seats are still vacant.
“Three colleges have filled 100% seats and 36 colleges filled more than 80% seats,” said career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. College of Engineering, Guindy, Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, and Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Salem, are the three government institutions that have filled 100% seats. Of the 36 colleges that filled more than 80% seats, 18 are government colleges.
“While students preferred computer science, IT and electronics and communication engineering, courses such as civil engineering, mechanical, electronics instrumentation have found few takers,” he said. ”Even courses such as automobile engineering and biomedical engineering have lost steam,” career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi.
Though 37,598 students were called for the final and fourth round, the cut-off marks for the round is 114.75 to 77.5 marks.
“Students who have scored less than 60% of marks would have already joined other courses or management seats in engineering colleges. So, there are chances that more than 50% of the students might skip the fourth round,” principal of a city college said.
Experts said the admission figures for 250 colleges will not improve drastically in the last round. “There might be a marginal increase in the admission in fourth round. But it would be extremely difficult to run colleges with such poor admissions,” another principal told TOI. He further said the students who joined will lose interest after seeing the poor strength. “Many faculty members in these colleges might lose their jobs,” he said.
Of the 69 colleges that have filled more than 50% of seats, most of them belong to Chennai and Coimbatore regions.
Anna University’s former vice-chancellor E Balagurusamy said without 40% admission, engineering colleges would not even be in a position to pay electricity charge or afford labourers to maintain their campuses.
“For the last three to four years, admissions were poor. But engineering colleges hoping for a reversal of trend kept running the colleges. Now it is clear engineering colleges cannot improve admissions. It’s time Anna University and state government held a meeting with managements of engineering colleges to decide on the way forward,” he said.
“When around one lakh students are joining the engineering courses (through counselling and management quota), we have more than two lakh seats. These seats have to be reduced,” he added.
Ragu Raman | Jul 24, 2019, 04.07 AM IST
Chennai: Of the 470 colleges in the state that took part in engineering counselling, 250 or 52% of the colleges could not even fill 10% of seats at the end of the third round.
Of the 250, 35 colleges failed to fill even one seat, while 117 colleges managed to fill less than 10 seats in the online counselling. Including the final allotment given to 24,131 students on Tuesday by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee, only 45,663 or 27% seats have been filled against the 1,67,101 seats available for counselling. With just a round to go, 1,27,438 seats are still vacant.
“Three colleges have filled 100% seats and 36 colleges filled more than 80% seats,” said career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. College of Engineering, Guindy, Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, and Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Salem, are the three government institutions that have filled 100% seats. Of the 36 colleges that filled more than 80% seats, 18 are government colleges.
“While students preferred computer science, IT and electronics and communication engineering, courses such as civil engineering, mechanical, electronics instrumentation have found few takers,” he said. ”Even courses such as automobile engineering and biomedical engineering have lost steam,” career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi.
Though 37,598 students were called for the final and fourth round, the cut-off marks for the round is 114.75 to 77.5 marks.
“Students who have scored less than 60% of marks would have already joined other courses or management seats in engineering colleges. So, there are chances that more than 50% of the students might skip the fourth round,” principal of a city college said.
Experts said the admission figures for 250 colleges will not improve drastically in the last round. “There might be a marginal increase in the admission in fourth round. But it would be extremely difficult to run colleges with such poor admissions,” another principal told TOI. He further said the students who joined will lose interest after seeing the poor strength. “Many faculty members in these colleges might lose their jobs,” he said.
Of the 69 colleges that have filled more than 50% of seats, most of them belong to Chennai and Coimbatore regions.
Anna University’s former vice-chancellor E Balagurusamy said without 40% admission, engineering colleges would not even be in a position to pay electricity charge or afford labourers to maintain their campuses.
“For the last three to four years, admissions were poor. But engineering colleges hoping for a reversal of trend kept running the colleges. Now it is clear engineering colleges cannot improve admissions. It’s time Anna University and state government held a meeting with managements of engineering colleges to decide on the way forward,” he said.
“When around one lakh students are joining the engineering courses (through counselling and management quota), we have more than two lakh seats. These seats have to be reduced,” he added.
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