Chennai: No seats filled in over 150 colleges

Chennai: Even after the end of round two in online engineering counselling, over 150 engineering colleges could not fill a single seat in the online engineering counselling.

According to sources, many top ranked colleges are also struggling to fill their seats. So far, the two rounds of the counselling have been completed and the students from 200 to 175 cut-off marks participated in the counselling. 

The second round ended on Saturday and 12,206 students were allotted seats in that round. The total number of allotted seats went up to 18,974 in two rounds.

“It’s a wake-up call to the many engineering institutions in the state. Only 40 colleges have filled above 30 per cent of their intake seats and 69 engineering colleges filled up to 10 per cent of their intake,” says Jayaprakash A. Gandhi, career consultant. It is evident from the details that even some of the top colleges are struggling to get students in online counselling.

“If the trend continued until the end of engineering counselling, around 200 colleges may not able to fill even 10 per cent of their total seats,” he cautioned.
This year, Chennai and Coimbatore have performed well compared to other regions. 

The preference for mechanical and civil engineering has come down drastically while the demand for computer science engineering and electronics and communication engineering and IT has gone up.

Anna University's three campuses MIT (97.12 per cent), CEG (96.52 per cent) and AC Tech (93.14 per cent) have attracted maximum number of students in the online engineering counselling.  Government College of Technology, Coimbatore (92.95 per cent) and PSG College of Technology also done well.
 Among the private engineering colleges SSN College of Engineering has filled 91.71 per cent of the seats in two rounds.

Central Electro Chemical Research Institute in Karaikudi is the only institution to have filled all the seats. The institute's all 34 seats were filled at the end of second round. “In the first two rounds, we have called only around 28,000 students among which 18,974 were allotted seats. From the third round on wards, the number of students more than 25,000 students will participate and the seats will be filled up as usual,” TNEA secretary V. Rhymend Uthariaraj said.