ENGINEERING COLLEGE PREFERENCES

putting your preferences for engineering admissions-

options

Since, there are many colleges in Pune which provide engineering education, it becomes difficult to choose a right college according to your favourite branch. Some things are important to be considered while choosing your engineering college.
they could be named as below,
1) Prestige and Reputation
2) Placement opportunities
3) Convenience of Travel
and last but not least
4) Your rank in the CAP list.
You must put all the options keeping in mind your CAP rank and last years cut-off for respective colleges (which you might find in the information brochure). Besides that you should not forgot your choice of branch as every branch of every college will be having a separate code to be entered (esp. when the limit of options to be entered is 100 - for 2013).
for example
college xyz branch IT = code 12045
college xyz branch Comp = code 12046
college abc branch IT= code 13034
some what like that.
you must be firm on your choice of branch and then ready yourself to whatever college you might get after that.

let's see what all branches we have in engineering,
(you should get a brief idea of this in the information brochure)

civil engineering
mechanical engineering
electrical engineering
production engineering (somewhat offshoot of mechanical)
instrumentation engineering (distant cousin of mechanical engineering)
electronics engineering ETX
electronics and telecommunication engineering EnTC( above electronics + satellite, television, mobile, radio, etc)
petroleum engineering (better part of further job opportunities only in Arabian countries)
polymer engineering (plastic and plastic products - offshoot of chemical engg)
chemical engineering
computer engineering (good scope for job in and around pune and all metro cities)
Information Technology engg IT(less preferred than Comp engg. because of its specificity in computer technology, more software part than comp engg.)
and there are many more engineering branches.

1. from job perspective - in software companies in and around pune and other metros, it doesn't matter whether you are a computer or IT engineer.
2. from what i count, till now electronics and electronics and telecommunication has not got much scope, due to un-availability of major and many electronic companies in India (unlike the IT sector).
3. there is still possibility of sudden boom in Electronics sector if the development of proposed delhi-mumbai corridor takes place. But again, it still has not. and therein lies the risk.
4. if you are counting on future government jobs which are engineering centered, civil, mechanical and electrical are good choice. they are core engg branches. you have got scope in state and central engineering services and other departments such as RTO(mechanical) etc.
5. this is not applicable for computer and IT. as there are meagre chances of having some govt job which needs computer and IT as graduation criteria.
6. keeping in mind the fact that India's service sector is much developed than manufacturing sector, it might be prudent to say that IT/Comp are safer than Civil/Mech/Electrical from Job perspective.
7. highly risky are the branches of petroleum, polymer, chemical etc.
8. even EnTC and ETX haven't shown expected results in the job granting field as many of the toppers from this branch choose to join IT companies because of high salaries. (perspective and choices matter)

lets come to the main topic of selecting the colleges.