An ACPC statement said 29,014 students were selected in the first provisional merit list, out of which 24,229 students filled a total of 6,55,062 choices for their preferred colleges. Seats have been allotted to 7,214 students in 19 government and aided colleges, while 14,748 students have been admitted in 114 private colleges, the statement said. The total number of seats in government and aided colleges is 11,411 and in private engineering colleges there are 38,810 seats.
Management quota and NRI quota seats are not included in these seats. The total number of seats in these two categories is around 64,000.
The students who have been allotted seats will have to confirm their admission by paying the token fee by September 9, the statement said.
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Interestingly, seats are also likely to remain vacant in popular courses like information technology, mechanical, civil and mechanical engineering courses. Emerging courses like Artificial Intelligence, which has about 1,000 seats in the state, are only a few of them that have been filled.
Experts say that about a decade ago the situation used to be different. He says that earlier the number of seats was less and the number of students was more resulting in rush for engineering courses. Though the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has sanctioned several engineering colleges in the state over the past decade, but with the increase in engineering seats, the preference of students has changed. Experts say more students are now opting for medicine than they were a decade ago. As a result, thousands of seats have remained vacant for the past few years.