Unbelievable number of students’ study computer science engineering in Tamil Nadu

I had known from news articles, Tamil Nadu has over 260,000 under-graduate engineering seats each year, many go unfilled too. The neighbouring states of Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have in the range of 90,000 to 130,000 each. Across India there are about 15 Lakh (1.5 Million) seats but only 50% to 60% get filled-up each year. Only today I learned the split-up for each discipline per batch in two of the large universities in the state. That’s when the scale hit me, they were unbelievable.

The top few private engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu have over three thousand students each in #ComputerScience disciplines (which now have super-specialities like AI) per year. The other disciplines like the Mechanical & Civil have a tenth of this number. I am not implying anything on the quality of education, as I am not aware first-hand, but I am amazed!

When I studied Bachelor of Engineering 24 years ago at a private Engineering College in Chennai, we had a maximum of fifty-students per batch per discipline. A growth of (equalised) two-and-times each year from the base. WOW!

To check out the numbers in each college, just Google “XYZ college number of students”.

Also, look at the below statistic, India has a share of 31.7% students studying STEM disciplines, the USA produces only half of that number, and Germany only 4% of it.