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HYDERABAD: Even as counselling for engineering admissions is scheduled to begin from first week of July, several private engineering colleges, offering computer science and information technology streams, are expected to find it difficult to fill up the seats.
The trend of choices of subjects by students this year indicates a shift towards core engineering courses like electronics, electrical and mechanical engineering. At present, over 11,555 seats are available in the computer science engineering course in 174 colleges in the state.
Principal of the Osmania University College of Engineering prof D N Reddy said availability of jobs in information technology sector was going down with each passing day. He said the students were now opting for computer courses along with main engineering courses in core streams.
?With the OU scrapping bachelor in computer application (BCA) course this year, the trend is clear that many private engineering colleges are not going to get enough students for computer science and IT engineering courses this year,? Reddy said.
The Integrated Common Entrance Test (Icet-2002) conducted by the OU this month also gave a strong indication that computer related courses have very few takers in the state. The number of students appearing for the MCA through the Icet this year came down by 35 per cent.
However, the AP State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE) states that though the popularity of computer engineering has come down, filling the seats will not be a problem for the government as well as private colleges. APSCHE chairman prof C Subba Rao said with the application of computers practically in almost all fields, computer engineering just cannot be marginalised.

Courtesy: Times of India

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India among key educational destinations for Americans

Washington, Nov 17 (IANS) India is among five nations that have emerged as key educational destinations for US students wanting to study abroad, a new survey said. With a record number of US students studying abroad, India alongwith China, Japan, South Africa and Argentina have emerged as the most favoured educational destinations. According to the Open Doors 2009 survey by the Institute of International Education released Monday, the number of Americans studying abroad increased by 8.5 percent to 262,416 in the 2007/08 academic year. The survey shows that the number of students to nearly all of the top 25 destinations increased, notably to destinations less traditional for study abroad: China, Ireland, Austria and India (up about 20 percent each), as well as Costa Rica, Japan, Argentina and South Africa (up nearly 15 percent each). At the same time, the number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by 8 percent to an all-time high of 671,616 in the 2008/09 academic year while the number of ‘new’ international students – those enrolled for the first time at a US college or university in fall 2008 – increased by 16 percent. This represents the largest percentage increase in international student enrolments since 1980/81. According to separate joint survey conducted by eight leading higher education associations, overall enrolments of international students increased this autumn at half (50 percent or 348) of responding member campuses. For the first time, the number of institutions reporting increases in students from India do not outweigh those who are reporting declines (29 percent reporting increases and 29 percent reporting declines). When looking specifically at the largest host institutions (those 121 responding institutions enrolling more than 1,000 students), 50 percent of responding institutions are reporting a decline for students from India and only 31 percent are reporting an increase. ‘Despite the economic downturn, many campuses are still seeing increases in international student enrollment for Fall 2009, while others are seeing declines or flattening of enrollments,’ said Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO of the Institute of International Education (IIE). ‘The impact also varies by country, with reported declining enrolments from India and a few other countries offset on many campuses by surging numbers of students coming from China and strong increases from certain other major sending countries,’ he said.

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