An estimated 2.93 lakh students have applied for EAMCET this year. Despite the craze for engineering course, there is increasing drop out among the students admitted in various engineering courses. A recent study by JNTU shows that about three to…
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AICTE Puts on Hold Admissions into Top Engineering Colleges
21 Jun 11: AICTE had put on hold the admissions into various prominent engineering colleges, as these colleges didn’t provide proper details of their admission process, curriculum and other facilities. The various colleges in to which the admissions are stopped…
Engineering Courses Have Lost their Sheen
01 April 2011: Interestingly, this time for EAMCET, students applying for medical stream this year were higher than the engineering stream. The total number of applications received for engineering stream was 2.51 lakhs when compared to 3.2 lakhs last year…
50% Marks in IPE Must for getting Admission For Engineering
According to the AICTE, the students should secure 50% of the marks in Intermediate Board exam in order to get admission in engineering colleges. This rule will be applicable from this academic year. The sale of applications for EAMCET has…
Interpersonal Skills to be Part of the New Curriculum in Engineering Colleges
As per the AICTE, from this academic year new curriculum is to be adopted which is common for all the engineering colleges across the country. All the colleges will now also have same grading and semester systems. The officials also…
State Government to Give Grades to Engineering Colleges
The State government formed a high power committee to grade the existing 700 engineering colleges in the state based on the aspects such as infrastructure, library, faculty, placements, facilities, value-added services and collaboration with foreign universities. This whole process is…
Excessive Growth of Engineering Colleges in AP
Andhra Pradesh state government’s ambitious ‘Vision 2020’ is to make AP the ‘knowledge society’ by 2020. Its aim is to make higher education more relevant, purposeful and also to impart skills and knowledge relevant to the emerging job market, particularly…
AP Mass Producing 3rd Quality Engineers – Need to Revisit the Positive Stereotype of an Engineer
In the earlier articles, we have seen how engineering got degenerated like LLB and how lakhs of below average students are able to join engineering colleges. Sadly things are not going to change quickly. So, we need to revisit the…
AP Mass Producing 3rd Quality Engineers – If You Can Pass Inter You Will Become An Engineer
Surprised by the title we mentioned here? Believe it not! Anybody who can pass Intermediate can become an engineer today. Thanks to the low qualifying standards and mushrooming of colleges with lakhs of engineering seats waiting for students to finish…
AP Mass Producing 3rd Quality Engineers – Degeneration of Engineering Courses
Happy that your kid got admitted in an engineering college? Happy with the mushrooming growth of engineering colleges? Do you think that our state is an emerging educational hub? Think again! No doubt, there is a tremendous growth in professional…