Tag: engineering

Engineering Colleges Drop-Out on the Rise

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…

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…

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…