Anna varsity still top-scorers’ favourite
The Hindu
Nearly 94% of the intake in the four campuses of the university has been filled
Nearly 69% of the seats allotted in the first round of counselling for engineering admission has been in branches related to computer science and information technology or circuitry. Also, nearly 5% of the seats within the segment has gone to new branches of study — artificial intelligence and data science and computer science and business system.
These niche disciplines are offered only by a handful of colleges, but students have shown preference for them over traditional branches.
The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2021 committee had invited 14,842 candidates for the first round of counselling, of whom 11,224 candidates, including 1,037 from the vocational stream and 10,187 from the academic stream, were allotted seats.