Around 300 UG seats vacant in Anna varsity
01/09/2019 , Special Correspondent, CHENNAI
As many as 300 seats will remain vacant across Anna University’s undergraduate programmes this academic year. The phenomenon of seats going vacant has become the norm over several years due to delay in the conduct of medical admissions.
This year, the online single window counselling for engineering seats overlapped that for medical seats. The first phase of counselling for engineering began on July 3 and candidates had four days’ time to lock in their choices. Counselling for medicine began on July 8. This allowed candidates to withdraw from engineering counselling if they were allotted a seat in a medical college.
“It appears that students with good scores in NEET managed to get into medical colleges but did not release the seats they had registered for at Anna University. They had paid registration fees so we could not cancel their seats,” an official explained.
Anna University Vice- Chancellor M.K. Surappa said, “Many meritorious students have gone to deemed universities.”
He said it would have helped if the medical admissions had taken place before engineering admissions. A high rate of unemployment in the last one year and a greater number of seats compared to demand are some of the reasons for poor admission, he said.
01/09/2019 , Special Correspondent, CHENNAI
As many as 300 seats will remain vacant across Anna University’s undergraduate programmes this academic year. The phenomenon of seats going vacant has become the norm over several years due to delay in the conduct of medical admissions.
This year, the online single window counselling for engineering seats overlapped that for medical seats. The first phase of counselling for engineering began on July 3 and candidates had four days’ time to lock in their choices. Counselling for medicine began on July 8. This allowed candidates to withdraw from engineering counselling if they were allotted a seat in a medical college.
“It appears that students with good scores in NEET managed to get into medical colleges but did not release the seats they had registered for at Anna University. They had paid registration fees so we could not cancel their seats,” an official explained.
Anna University Vice- Chancellor M.K. Surappa said, “Many meritorious students have gone to deemed universities.”
He said it would have helped if the medical admissions had taken place before engineering admissions. A high rate of unemployment in the last one year and a greater number of seats compared to demand are some of the reasons for poor admission, he said.
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