Number of admissions to engineering courses up by over 10,000 this year

During this academic year, as many as 83,396 students got engineering seat allocations against the previous year’s figure of 72,648, this shows an increase of more than 10,000 candidates.

After releasing the merit list, multiple rounds of counselling were conducted for the applicants from July 3 to July 28. However, following request from the parents, DOTE had also conducted a special counselling session on July 30, so that students who missed the previous counselling could participate.

A senior official from DOTE told DT Next on Wednesday that a total of 1,683 seats were allocated to students belonging to special reservation category. “Similarly, a total of 76,364 seats were allocated to the candidates falling under general category,” he said adding a total of 4,548 seats were allocated to the students who participated in the supplementarycounselling.

Stating that as many as 801 candidates, who participated in the special counselling on Tuesday, got seat allotments, the DOTE official said that altogether 83,396 candidates got engineering admissions of their choice.

This year a total of 1.67 lakh engineering seats are available in about 500 colleges across the State. However, 83,705 engineering seats would remain vacant, the official said adding that last year little over 90,000 seats were vacant.

He further noted that this year, Computer Science was the favourite course among the students and Civil Engineering was the least preferred course among the candidates. The official said that colleges would be reopened from the second week of August.

This year the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) conducted counselling for engineering aspirants after Anna University refused take up admission process after a row with Higher EducationDepartment.