Thursday, July 30, 2009

Let there BE Engineers!!!

It looks like the Engineering Education Bubble might soon pop in TN, where, now there are over 400 engineering colleges. With every damn politician and his cousin starting one every other day, the public might finally be waking up to this huge scam. The results of the first phase of the counselling session is especially heartening with many colleges having no takers.

From TOI

In a striking and grim indication of the number of BE/B.Tech seats in self-financing engineering colleges in the state overshooting the
demand, 42 institutions have failed to attract a single student in the ongoing Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2009) academic stream counselling.

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Equally glaring is the fact that no student including from the vocational stream has opted to join the BE Information Technology course in 162 colleges and the Computer Science Engineering course in 141 institutions as on Monday morning

2 comments:

Raghavan said...

I am so not surprised with this nugget of information

Ashank said...

Yeah...there was a statistic in 'The Hindu' outlining how demand for C.S had reduced drastically whereas that for Mechanical (or Civil, I forget) had risen in turn "http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/07/17/stories/2009071759740700.htm"
To state the obvious, now that IT demand is down, other fields will be chosen by talented students with potential improvement in them.