With the decreasing demand for admissions in engineering colleges in the state, the number of colleges offering the courses is following the trajectory The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has started reducing its approvals for these colleges with every academic year, leading to fewer varsities.
For the year 2020-2021, the chief body has announced its approval for only 186 private engineering and technology colleges in Telangana. Compared to 2019-2020’s 202 approved colleges, there has been a dip of 16 colleges as these haven’t been given the authority to run and provide the courses of engineering and its various streams to aspirants.
If the information of the AICTE is to be believed, 133 colleges have not been stamped with the approval of the body in the past seven years In 2014-2015, the number of engineering colleges and technology colleges stood at 319 while this came down to 186 in 2020-2021. Due to the reduced number of colleges, the seats available to the students also became lesser. A total of 1,87,530 seats were available in 319 private engineering institutions in 2014-15 to compared to 1,05,119 now.
An aggregate of all the AICTE approved colleges came in 201 for the next academic year, which includes the government-run, university-functioned and private colleges in the state of Telangana.
This great ordeal for the ruled out colleges is due to the fact that not many students are opting for engineering. From the 183 colleges which offered their seats in the final phase of the web counseling for engineering colleges programs, the service provided to students who passed the EAMCET in 2019 recorded only 44 colleges with 100 percent occupancy of seats. The number includes 12 universities and 32 private colleges. Moreover, there were three colleges that had zero admissions, meaning that no student was enrolled for the year as none chose the particular colleges in the counseling.
A similar pattern is seen in the case of pharmacy colleges as well. The AICTE had approved 124 engineering colleges for the academic year 2019-2020, however, this has plummeted to 78 for the years 2020-2021, again because of the reduced demand for it. Adding the government and private seats, the AICTE approved 81 pharmacy offering colleges register a total of 7,400 seats to be provided for students willing to enroll for this year.
The apex body had announced the shutdown of eight colleges in 2019-2020. Engineering and technology, management, and pharmacy institutions formed the number.
With more students aiming to crack the EAMCET for medical entrances, the institutions offering to engineer are seeing very few admissions with every passing year. Moreover, many are also looking out to pursue their passion, planning ways to transform their passion into a living by choosing out-of-the-box and creative fields.
