‘Engineering Dethroned’ is a Myth, More Takers in Karnataka as Per 2019 Official Data
The nationwide down surging of Engineering has failed to impact Karnataka. An opposite picture has been portrayed from Karnataka where the engineering admission statistics have broken the previous records.
While Tamil Nadu reports massive vacant seats in engineering colleges in TN, another neighbouring state has reported a hike in the demand in engineering. As the second round of counselling for Karnataka CET examination concluded, the K-CET Authorities have reported that there are 13,120 seats yet to be filled for engineering in Karnataka Engineering colleges. This year a total of 1,40,967 candidates have been recognised eligible for engineering admissions through KCET Counselling for a total seat number of 59,000 in Karnataka Engineering Colleges.
As per the previous years’ data, the number of vacant seats exceeds 20,000 after second counselling. Seeing the number of vacant seats this year, the experts have said that there is a change this year. A senior professor of a Karnataka Engineering College has said that it is surprising that students are coming in big numbers for engineering even though there is a trend of saying that Engineering has fewer takers. He added that the seats which are remaining will be filled through general merit as all the other quota admissions have been over.
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An official from KEA (Karnataka Engineering Authority) has said that the students who belong to the reserved categories will have seat as per their reservations, but if they have merit, they can register in general category in other engineering colleges for better opportunities if the candidate feels like doing so.
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Officials say that the final admission figures are yet to come, many students can drop their engineering admissions once they get in medicals. The final admission figure will only be out once the students will complete the admissions, however, there is no denying that there is a new wave of engineering this year in Karnataka.
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