BE computer seat costs Rs 10 lakh

MRIDULA CHUNDURI / TNN / Jun 22, 2006, 00:56 IST

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Most students, are vying for the computer science engineering course offered in the city colleges that cost around Rs 10 lakh.

HYDERABAD: Most students, this year, are vying for the computer science engineering course (CSE) offered in the city colleges. However, this coveted seat comes with a price tag of Rs 10 lakh.
Capitation fees for management quota seats have skyrocketed this year in all top engineering colleges. While last year the CSE seat cost Rs 7 lakh in reputed colleges like Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology and Vasavi Engineering College, this year the going rate is nothing less than Rs 10 lakh.
The most sought-after streams this year are CSE followed by IT engineering and electronics and communications engineering (ECE), which incidentally was the favourite last year.
This year too, the ECE seat is pegged at Rs 8 lakh, but then there are few takers this time. A mechanical engineering seat used to fetch college managements Rs 4 lakh last year.

This year, it averages around Rs 6 lakh. In Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, an ECE seat last year cost around Rs 4 lakh. This year it has more than doubled.
Even in colleges on the outskirts of the city like Bharat Engineering College in Ibrahimpatnam, a CSE seat is priced at Rs 6.5 lakh.
With more than a lakh qualifying for engineering in Eamcet this year and the AICTE slashing the total number of seats by 7,000, top colleges saw severe competition this time around...

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In fact, even before the results were announced, all colleges of repute in the city had finished booking their seats. Not only has the demand for engineering education gone up, the number of management seats have also gone up from 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the total seats. Their annual fee is also likely to be increased by Rs 5,000.
The rural and new engineering colleges, on the other hand, continue to suffer. In fact, these colleges are ready to offer a fee reduction for convener quota seats. There is also no capitation fee in rural BE colleges.
"It has become a hand-to-mouth existence for them," said P Rajeshwar Reddy of the AP Rural Engineering Colleges Association.

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