Bengaluru: Prospective engineering in Karnataka will have 1.042 chairs again to be contested in the coming year, with 767 of them at the undergraduate level.
Overall, 1.1 lakh seats are available for scholars, graduate and architecture, among others.
While the seat of around 24,000 CET (general entry test) was empty last year, the University hopes that more seats will be picked up because of the policy of all promotions in PU and there is no cutoff feasibility in this year’s CET.
Some 1.8 lakh students have met the requirements in CET.
According to the data distributed by Visvesvaraya Techological University (VTU), 1,257 undergraduate seats have been reduced due to the closing of the course.
And 4,676 seats have been cut during college looking for a reduction in intake.
Losses in VTU seats have been compensated by adding 5,170 seats in 22 new courses in 38 colleges throughout the state.
New courses include artificial intelligence, computer science (CS) and Engineering (Internet of Things, Cybersecurity Blockchain Technology), CS and Data Science, CS and Business Analysis, CS and data structures.
666 seats added in the new PG program around 1,530 seats have been added to existing courses.
With this, the UG engineering flow will have 767 more seats this year.
The courses are closed in many colleges, especially mechanics, civil, industrial production, electronic instrumentation techniques, industrial and management techniques, among others.
“With the emergence of the pandemic, manufacturing and construction industries have also been affected.
However, there is a request for these courses in good colleges.
We bring reforms to make these courses interesting and relevant to introduce electronic devices and AI associated with techniques Civil and mechanics, “said VTU Vice-Chancellor Karisiddappa, conceding a request for digital technology.
Among the PG courses, 589 seats were closed and 162 was cut off due to a reduction of seats sought by universities.
At the same time, 666 seats have been added in new courses and 360 seats increase in existing courses.
“The demand for PG has fallen for various reasons: students are placed directly after; with the Atne Mandating PhD to teach, many students do not choose higher studies for placement; only a few companies insist MTech,” said an official.