Friday 23 December 2011

Govt. Engineering Colleges : A review on academics & placements

Govt. Engineering colleges run by State Govts are preferred by lot of top rankers from the State conducted CET or AIEEE  ( Whatever be the criterion for admissions).

Even the parents also give preference to Govt colleges over good private engineering colleges.
If one is not able to make it to IITs,NITs,IIITs all under Central Govt ,then the first preference is for Govt Colleges in the States from where one belongs to.

These Govt. colleges attract a good talent pool of students and some even have the quality of admitted students comparable to some NITs.There is not a big gap in the ranks of students who got admitted into NITs and these Govt colleges run by respective State Govts.
But if we compare the quality of academics and placements, the difference is huge.

This is more in Govt Engineering Colleges in the North Indian States. Barring a few colleges, the others are just giving a very average scope of learning and job prospects for the admitted students.
The placements are just 20-30%.  A lot of colleges does not even have full fledged placement cells. The Professor from some department has been given the additional responsibility for T&P department which results in a handful of companies for the campus placements with very mediocre companies & salary packages. Even a lot of private colleges are doing better than these Govt. colleges even when quality of admitted students in these private colleges is not at par with these Govt. colleges.

The Govts should take a serious view in this regard and should discuss with the Directors / Principals about their requirements so that the improvements could be done faster.
20-30% final placements show that hardly the efforts are put in for training and industry relations.
These colleges have lot of resources at their disposal to make them centres of excellence but to utilize these resources to the maximum should be strived from all stakeholder

Aspiring students and parents need to be more informed while making a decision of taking admissions in govt. colleges.

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