Around 70% of seats in women's engineering colleges in the state remained vacant two days before the end of the single window counselling for admission to engineering colleges in the state.
Only 3,341 of the 4,800 seats were filled in colleges created exclusively for women. As many as 72,141 women applied for the counselling process this year.Women's engineering colleges have been seeing a steady decline in patronage over the last couple of years. This has led to four colleges being converted into co-educational institutions in the last two years. The number has decreased from 24 colleges in 2010 to 20 this year.
Engineering Industry"Girls prefer to join co-educational institutions because they feel that studying with men would help them get accustomed to a corporate environment," said a head of a women's engineering college.
Engineering College ChennaiMeanwhile, the single window counselling system in the state has come full circle, with the absentee rate touching 40% on Thursday. Of the 8,542 students called for counselling only 5,074 turned up with an all-time high figure of 36 students skipping the process. On the first day of the counseling, the absentee rate was 42%. The rate steadily declined for a week and climbed again to reach 40.17% on Friday.
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