Eleven
government and two private colleges filled all their seats while 16 private
colleges could not get a single student this year after four rounds of online
counselling conducted by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA)
committee. And 54% seats in 479 colleges remain vacant.
Like
previous years, 230 colleges filled less than 30% of seats. Of 1,67,101 seats
available for counselling, 76,364 were filled.
“More than
200 colleges could not fill 30% of seats in the past four years. If the trend
continues, the colleges could lose 50% of seats,” said career consultant
Jayaprakash Gandhi. If colleges have less than 30% admissions for five
consecutive years, AICTE cuts seats by 50%.
Computer
science and civil engineering emerged as most and least preferred streams while
mechanical engineering saw a huge drop in demand, with only 36% of seats
filled. Colleges in Chennai and Coimbatore regions got more students. As many
as 1,519 students from previous rounds participated in the fourth round due to
improper choice filling.
In a curious
case, 30,702 seats were filled in the fourth and final round (cut-off 114.75 to
77.5), registering the maximum enrolment in four rounds.
Experts said
the changes in post-matric scholarship to SC students increased the allotments
in fourth round. “Now, only students admitted through counselling can claim
reimbursement. So students who joined colleges under management quota have
shifted to government quota,” the principal of a city college said.
“But more
than 85% of the students in the fourth round have got their first choices.
Private colleges may have filled the choices on behalf of the students,”
Jayaprakash Gandhi said.
“Due
to poor results and tough question papers, the students preferred autonomous
colleges to affiliated colleges,” a principal from Trichy said.
TNEA began supplementary counselling for
students who did not apply for the counselling and have cleared instant exams
on Sunday and will wrap it on July 30.
To read the full article, please visit: The Times of India (Chennai) dated 29 July, 2019
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