Students, who until now planned on scoring high on scores, will shift focus to making careers.
BANGALORE: The decisive pre-university results are out. Students, who until now planned on scoring high on scores, will shift focus to making careers. It's a decision that combines personal interest and aptitude with availability. The hot favourites in colleges are clearly Biotechnology, BCA and BBM. "These courses are clearly profession driven with lucrative offers waiting to lure them after their degree," explained a lecturer.
Colleges also admit fewer students in a class ��� as few as 30 in a BCA class, when compared to 90 in a PCM class ��� to increase personal attention. The scene in degree colleges is different from the PU level.
While at PU, the Science stream sees the highest cut-off levels and maximum demand, at the degree level, the demand drops drastically. In fact, in most colleges, students who score high marks in the stream are not always welcomed in the pure Sciences stream. "They take up B.Sc as a stop-gap arrangement, until professional exam results like CET and Comed-K are out. We would rather have students who score 55 per cent, but are keen to make a career out of pure Sciences," said a college principal.
The Arts stream sees a lot of students who take up Science or Commerce at the PU level out of parental or peer pressure to score high marks. But with professional-oriented courses like Communicative English and subjects with vast scope like Economics, which can open doors in the world of finance, there is no dearth of students opting for the Arts stream ��� again a turnaround from the PU phenomenon. The Commerce stream has seen a steady increase in students too. The reasons are not difficult to gauge. Some colleges like Mount Carmel's and NMKRV offer travel and tourism as a vocational course along with the regular B.Com, but colleges like Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain and Christ offer value-added courses in chartered accountancy, company secretary and finance management to enhance the value of what was once considered a last-option course.