Pointing to the declining interest in core engineering branches, Computer Science Engineering (CSE) has yet again emerged as the hot favourite among students in Telangana — 94.20% of seats have been occupied in the first phase admissions.
There was poor response to the core branches like Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering where not more than 44% of seats were taken. Electronics-related courses were relatively better off with 80% of available seats finding takers. Computer Science-related courses have the highest number of seats as well.
Of the 55,876 seats in CSE and IT-related courses, 52,637 seats have been filled and just 3,239 seats are vacant, mostly in rural colleges or ones that barely maintain standards. Six of the Computer Science related courses including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Business Systems, IoT, and Cyber Security including Block Chain, CSE (Networks) have recorded 100% seat allotment.
