Reportedly this year around 96 candidates who got seat in IIT-KGP are not coming for admission counselling. Same trend occurred last year also, even after three rounds of counselling 48 seats left vacant in IIT Kharagpur.
When IIT-KGP authorities asked these candidates, main reasons are
1. Some candidates did not get stream of their interest, so they will opt for other institutes where they will get that stream.
2. Some candidates have either secured admission abroad or are going to study maths and physics in institutions like Chennai Mathematics Institute or IISc Bangalore
2. Some candidates have either secured admission abroad or are going to study maths and physics in institutions like Chennai Mathematics Institute or IISc Bangalore
Most preferred streams among students
- computer science engineering,
- electrical (includes electronics and communication)
Less preferred streams among students
- mining engineering,
- ceramic engineering
- metallurgy
“The sad part is that everyone wants to study computer science engineering and electrical engineering and hence these vacant seats at the end of first round of counseling. Streams like mining, metallurgy and ceramic are crying for good students and the country needs such engineers. We will arrive at a final figure by July 16. What you need to appreciate is that the IITs are not compromising on merit in anyway because for the 9800 plus seats at all the IITs, we had shortlisted 14337 candidates from the IITJEE merit list. We will not compromise with this merit list even if seats do not get filled,” said H C Gupta, chairman of IITJEE, Delhi, which was the organizing IIT this year.
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