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No takers for the PG engineering courses in engineering colleges in TN
Posted on: 16/Oct/2018 9:51:10 AM
Gone are the days when a student after finishing his/her bachelor degree in engineering in Tamil Nadu would pursue postgraduate degree in engineering in TN with great interest. The latest news is there were no takers for the post graduate engineering courses in the state of TN and due to this reason as many as 47 engineering colleges have closed 92 programmes for this academic year 2018-19. Just few years back there were many students who had interest and studied masters in engineering in subjects like power systems and engineering, communication systems and applied electronics and VLSI etc. Now it is revealed that along with other master’s programmes like MCA, MBA, ME programmes in the above mentioned subjects have been closed down in the 47 engineering colleges in TN. The list of courses and institutions that were given approval for progressive closure from this academic year was released by AICTE
A principal belonging to one of the colleges that had shut down PG programmes spoke about how in the last few years not many students got enrolled in PG programmes and how the enrolment has come down alarmingly. He then explained how in the last 2 years the master programme or ME in power electronics was kept going even without any student. He added that it was impossible to run these programmes without the minimum strength.
The principal later clarified on how the sanctioned strength of the PG programme was 18 and how the course could be run only if the minimum strength was 15. He later highlighted the importance of the faculty members and said minimum of 3 faculty members were required to run a course. To run the course with just one or two students was impossible. There are 50 percent of the seats vacant in majority of the courses and as a result there would be more closure in the next academic year. This was also confirmed by the principal. AICTE statistics have confirmed that as many as 19 engineering colleges had closed 42 under graduate programmes and that included mechanical and computer science and engineering courses etc. Some professors spoke about the lack of proper planning while approving and starting of new courses in the colleges. They also explained that AICTE and engineering colleges needed to be aware regarding the demand of the courses.
The lack of job opportunities was the main reason why students do not join PG programmes and this was confirmed by an educational consultant. He further added that postgraduate courses could attract more students only when the job prospects are more. Former vice-chancellor of Anna University, Mr. Balaguruswamy spoke about how this closure of PG programmes is a worrying trend and how it could affect the manpower in teaching and research.
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