The scene is equally grim for 44 other private institutions; more girls join civil engineering
Chennai: Nine self-financing engineering colleges in the state have failed to attract a single student in the ongoing Single Window System of counselling for admissions this year. The scene is equally grim for 44 other private institutions, in which the number of students admitted has not touched
10 as of August 12.
While top colleges are capitalising on the craze for engineering college seats, students and parents appear to be reluctant to enroll in lesser known institutions or colleges with poor academic track record.
Reinforcing the fact that quality of education does matter, all seats have been filled in four premier institutions — College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University) Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Madras Institute of Technology Anna University} and Government College of Engineering, Bargur
While all government and aided colleges have emerged favourites with the aspirants, SSN Engineering College near Chennai is the lone self financing college in which only less than 10 seats are vacant
"Students seem to have preferred colleges located in Chennai followed by those in Coimbatore." said education analyst Jayaprakash Gandhi.
Among the various courses, textile chemistry and medical electronics have attracted few takers. The craze for circuit branches like electronics and communications engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, information technology and computer science engineering continued (his year too.
Among the 17 new colleges. Velammal College in Madurai has received good response Besides in ore girls have joined civil-engineering this year/Gandhi added.
All Seats No Students
VKK Vijayan Engineering College, Chennai
Sri Jayaram Engineering College, Cuddalore
GGR College of Engineering, Vellore
Seethai Ammal Engineering College, Sivagangai
Joe Suresh Engineering College, Tirunelveli
MNSK College of Engineering, Pudukottai
PSN Engineering College, Tirunelveli
Lord Jegannath College Engineering and Technology, Kanyakumari