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As many as 1,89,000 students have registered for the Common Admission Process (CAP) for engineering admissions in Maharashtra and number of registrations is expected to increase further as the registration window will end on Tuesday.
Last year, total 1,61,336 candidates registered for CAP for admission to engineering colleges, according to data shared by the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) cell. Even as the number of candidates who registered for engineering admissions increased, there are ample seats available that will help ensure no student will be without a seat, said the CET cell.
Even as the intake capacity for engineering admissions is not final yet, an official from CET cell said, “Last year, there were 1,58,585 seats.
A total of 1,17,948 candidates were finally admitted to various engineering courses, leaving over 40,000 seats vacant.
This year, there will be an increase in the number of total available seats…there will be more than adequate seats for engineering admissions.”
According to officials from the CET cell, this happens because students evaluate before taking admissions. “There are various branches in engineering and in the past few years, computer engineering, Information Technology and newly emerging Artificial Intelligence are attracting most students. If students see that they are unlikely to get the branch of their choice in a desired college through CAP, they prefer to pursue other promising options such as B.Sc. IT, B.Sc. Biotech among others,” said an official.
As candidates are yet to fill option forms indicating their choices among branches of engineering, the CET cell anticipates that regular trend is likely to follow with computer engineering and artificial intelligence getting maximum applications. Students will start filling option forms next week.
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