Career Counseling Counselling

Hi,
In most of the courses like medical or engineering, college counseling is engaged so that a student can know about the various courses offered by different colleges where he or she can pursue his/her career confidently. Usually a lot of colleges participate in counseling and a particular college engages counseling on behalf of other colleges. So, in counseling a student fills his or her preferred choices of college and a course.
Let me give an example like for engineering in India, IITs engage counseling every year so that a student can fill his/her college choices. We have around 16 IITs, so he/she is given preference of colleges in descending order. Then there are around 20 -25 courses offered by the college.