At the end of the first round, more than half of the candidates who participated in the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2022 single-window counselling have chosen Computer Science Engineering (CSE) and allied courses.
This is true of all categories — vocational, academic and government school students — who contested for the preferential quota seats. The candidates have opted largely for core CSE instead of subjects such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
As has been in the past several years, civil engineering had taken a beating with just 2.1% of seats (226) being filled in contrast to 2,946 seats in CSE or 1,753 in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE). As many as 1,387 candidates have chosen Information Technology (IT) while 736 have opted for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE).
