There seems to be a serious crisis in engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India according to this recent media article, "No new engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh from next year".
Some specifics:
In 2004-05, AP engg. college students intake was 82,225 in 238 colleges.
Now, AP engg. college students intake has been 3,44,986 in 717 colleges. [Another news media report given later on in this post, mentions AP no. of engg. seats as around 3,50,000. So I think this news media article's word 'intake' may be incorrect.]
In 2010-11, 30 % AP engg. college seats were vacant.
In 2012-13, 40 to 50 % AP engg. college seats are vacant.
Here's a recent media article which speaks about colleges closing down degree programs (referred to as 'course' in the article), "JNTUH flooded with requests for closure of nearly 350 courses".
Some specifics:
"Out of the 17,317 seats only 4,983 students opted for the B.Tech (IT) course leaving 12,334 seats vacant."
"... 21,776 seats out of the 67,518 seats going vacant in MBA and 15,224 seats out of the 23,532 remaining vacant in the MCA stream"
"The MCA courses suffered the worst with not a single student joining in 159 colleges while MBA was better with zero admissions in 29 colleges."
A slightly dated media report, 10th June 2012, "Slowdown hinders campus placements" states that companies have postponed campus placements indefinitely citing “tough global economic conditions”.
Some specifics:
Every year the number of engineering college graduates produced are:
Andhra Pradesh - 2,00,000
Tamil Nadu - 1,80,000
Karnataka - 80,000
Maharashtra - 80,000
Country wide, 12,00,000 B.Tech. seats are available, of which AP has 3,50,000.
Here's another news article, which seems to be very recent, though the article does not show a date, http://www.academics-india.com/Andhra%20update.htm (the content on this page may be transient as it is labeled an update), giving some additional input on the AP engg. college situation.
Some specifics:
AP government has introduced a cap in intake of number of students per college (420 or 540) to ensure that city based colleges do not take up most of the students thereby threatening closure of rural and semi-urban colleges!
Many AP private engg. colleges are facing closure due to few students joining them and so they are working out deals to shift students between them!
In Tamil Nadu (TN), 50 new engg. colleges get added every year. Available seats were around 1,20,000 in 2011-12 and went up to around 1,49,000 in 2012-13. In 2012-13, around 1,04,000 seats were allotted and around 45,000 seats fell vacant.
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Some specifics:
In 2004-05, AP engg. college students intake was 82,225 in 238 colleges.
Now, AP engg. college students intake has been 3,44,986 in 717 colleges. [Another news media report given later on in this post, mentions AP no. of engg. seats as around 3,50,000. So I think this news media article's word 'intake' may be incorrect.]
In 2010-11, 30 % AP engg. college seats were vacant.
In 2012-13, 40 to 50 % AP engg. college seats are vacant.
Here's a recent media article which speaks about colleges closing down degree programs (referred to as 'course' in the article), "JNTUH flooded with requests for closure of nearly 350 courses".
Some specifics:
"Out of the 17,317 seats only 4,983 students opted for the B.Tech (IT) course leaving 12,334 seats vacant."
"... 21,776 seats out of the 67,518 seats going vacant in MBA and 15,224 seats out of the 23,532 remaining vacant in the MCA stream"
"The MCA courses suffered the worst with not a single student joining in 159 colleges while MBA was better with zero admissions in 29 colleges."
A slightly dated media report, 10th June 2012, "Slowdown hinders campus placements" states that companies have postponed campus placements indefinitely citing “tough global economic conditions”.
Some specifics:
Every year the number of engineering college graduates produced are:
Andhra Pradesh - 2,00,000
Tamil Nadu - 1,80,000
Karnataka - 80,000
Maharashtra - 80,000
Country wide, 12,00,000 B.Tech. seats are available, of which AP has 3,50,000.
Here's another news article, which seems to be very recent, though the article does not show a date, http://www.academics-india.com/Andhra%20update.htm (the content on this page may be transient as it is labeled an update), giving some additional input on the AP engg. college situation.
Some specifics:
AP government has introduced a cap in intake of number of students per college (420 or 540) to ensure that city based colleges do not take up most of the students thereby threatening closure of rural and semi-urban colleges!
Many AP private engg. colleges are facing closure due to few students joining them and so they are working out deals to shift students between them!
In Tamil Nadu (TN), 50 new engg. colleges get added every year. Available seats were around 1,20,000 in 2011-12 and went up to around 1,49,000 in 2012-13. In 2012-13, around 1,04,000 seats were allotted and around 45,000 seats fell vacant.
Please note that the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY) does *not* apply to this post.
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