Be on your alert when you choose an Engineering College!

How to choose an engineering college..??

It is one of the biggest questions for students in Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh, private colleges are mere degree shops which provides with the engineering degree and catering with little knowledge and technical skills and strangely all of them have AICTE certification. There are more than 700 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and the number of seats available are 3, 20,000. Around 2, 50,000 appeared in the EMCET entrance exam. Out of these, 2, 18,000 qualified (i.e. get 25 per cent marks).

Round about 30,000 qualified students failed the intermediate exam and are not eligible for admission. But some 30,000 choose not to study in AP as they are not sure whether they would be able to complete the program within 4 years or not, considering the frequent postponements of exams caused by agitations for and against Telangana. Bright students opt to study in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Ample of colleges opened in Andhra Pradesh by the rich people who have made enough money in various businesses.

Strangely, these colleges have AICTE permit and without the proper inspection or checks whether these colleges have required facilities or not. Such facilities can be defined in terms of laboratories, equipment, teachers, library, hostel and some other facilities. Government of Maharashtra is now reimbursing the fees for about 85 per cent of those admitted and these students are being characterized as poor, minority, SC & STs.

Want to take admission in an engineering college..??

Getting admission in an engineering college in AP is quite easy task as one will have to spend only Rs. 600, and after four years you'll get a certificate that you're an engineer. On the other hand, acquiring an engineering degree is quite cheap in AP as compared to nursery and secondary education which is expensive.

You don't need to study at all in an engineering college and questions are given and answers are dictated. Exams are confined to these questions only. Students who do not meet the recruitment criteria join as assistant professors in the college from which they graduate.

If a college has a good principal and he insist upon teaching in English then agitations begins that the principal is anti-social and social justice demands that nobody should be detained and that everybody be passed.

But the management of colleges is not worried because they are getting their tuition fees from Government of Andhra Pradesh. 90% of the young generation in AP is turning out as engineer but not qualified enough to get employment as per government norms.

Quality of Education is a big question!

Quality of education is degrading at the intermediate level. In these colleges students know how to pass the exam and to get into a professional college and get a job and make money by whatever means. Government needs to take some strict action against this else it will turn out to be a hell.

Source: Richha Bhatnagar (Shiksha Team)