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Private Engineering colleges witnessed 54% vacant seats last year

1916 Jul 19, 2017

As data showed by the Lok Sabha on Monday revealed that the private Engineering colleges in country have reached their saturation point. Last year, around 54% of the undergraduate and graduate seats in the private engineering colleges could not find any candidates as a result of which, for the academic year 2017-18, the private institutes withdrew 96,000 seats.

Also, the number of engineering colleges in country went down by 83. AICTE council chairman D Sahasrabuddhe, in April, said that 275 colleges in the country had applied for the closure.

Comparing the results with the government engineering college it was found that in those colleges only 28% seats went vacant in the academic year 2016-17. For the academic year 2017-18, 6151 seats in the colleges were added.

The maximum vacant seats in the private colleges were in Himachal Pradesh (83%) and were then followed by the following colleges: