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In the Anna University rank list there are many Chennai based engineering colleges
Posted on: 26/Nov/2018 10:38:23 AM
Recently Anna University released rank list for the year 2017-18. It is now brought out that engineering colleges (non autonomous) belonging to Chennai and around the Chennai have got top 10 positions of the college performance chart. In Tambaram in Chennai is located Sri Sairam Engineering College. This popular college has topped the list and the superb piece of information is as many as 146 university rank holders at both undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels were from this Sri Sairam Engineering College. As many as 4 gold medals in subjects like mechanical, electrical and electronics, production, instrumentation and electronics engineering were given to the students from the above mentioned engineering college is known.
The official data has confirmed that the college that produces as many as 1200 every year has retained the top spot for the last 5 years. The two main factors that were responsible for Sri Sairam Engineering College to retain the top position was better teacher to student ratio and smaller classrooms in terms of student strength. This was confirmed by Mr. Sai Prakash Leo Muthu, the CEO for Sri Sairam Group of Institutions.
It is worthy to note that AICTE or All India Council for Technical Education, government’s technical education regulatory body changed the teacher student ration from 1:15 to 1:20. Sri Sairam Engineering College was one among very few institutions that did not fire teaching faculty based on the above. According to Mr. K. M. Karthik, Private Colleges Employee Union, more than 12,000 teachers lost their jobs in 2018 and this was reflected in the overall academic performance of the students in the year. As per the data it is clear that out of total 497 affiliated non-autonomous colleges only 115 managed to record a pass percentage of 50 percent or more.
Chennai based Panimalar Engineering College secured second position as it was responsible for producing as many as 131 university ranks. The popular St Joseph College of Engineering secured third position by producing 130 university ranks. SSN College of Engineering has got 4th position in the list and it produced 112 university ranks. By producing as many as 85 university ranks Velammal Engineering college secured 5th position. An educational consultant from Erode expressed his views regarding Chennai based engineering colleges securing top position in the list. He said due to perception that employability and industry interaction is better in and around Chennai, many toppers of class 12 prefer Chennai based engineering colleges. He later revealed that the placement trends were worry some in the last 3 years due to demonetisation and GST. He added that there were better chance of students joining Chennai engineering colleges to get placed or start small industry by means of various government schemes and loans.
A principal of a Trichy based engineering college spoke his heart out and said answer scripts of the students from other districts like Trichy mainly go to the evaluation centres in and around Chennai. Evaluation and expectations of the teaching staffs at these centres were higher and hence students got low marks. In the rank list, many autonomous colleges such as PSG College of Technology and Kumaraguru College of Technology were not included because these colleges prepare their own content, conduct examinationons and release results as per UGC guidelines. Anna University does not conduct any examination for these autonomous colleges.
