Over 13,000 engineering seats added for counselling in Tamil Nadu this year

Tamil Nadu Engineering Assuming (TNEA) consultancy through the consultancy of the engineering candidates who want to accept the colleges in Tamil Nadu, you can choose from this academic year will be the 13,393 additional seats.

This increase was supported by high demand for computer science -related courses, which increase in nearly 10,000 seats in the current academic year.

Courses such as artificial intelligence and data science, computer science and engineering, artificial intelligence and machinery learning and cyber security have gained popularity over the years. However, information technology witnesses a downward trend compared to previous years, but this year, additional seats of 1,700 people have been presented for consultancy.

Lack of faculty

In the last few years, this masterpiece in the recruitment of courses related to computer science has opened a kind of crisis: lack of educated faculties. “This may cause the quality of teaching to decrease, R. Career Consultant R. Ashwin warned.

According to the data published by the Directorate of Technical Education, there were a total of 1,72,388 seats in 417 colleges for students to choose during counseling. Although there is an increase in the number of seats, at least 16 colleges for students this year would not receive for various reasons from closing to black list.

AI courses increase

A rapid view of data throughout the branch reveals a significant tendency: the increase in the number of courses related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) loses popularity among core engineering subjects engineering candidates.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science has a maximum increase in demand by taking the total number of seats up to 20,857 with 3,544 additional seats added this year. In 2024, the branch had 5,320 additional seats compared to the previous year. Similarly, computer science and engineering have increased more than 2,200 seats this year compared to last year. For information technology and electronic and communication engineering, the increase in the number of seats this year is far above the thousand seats.

However, the number of seats is decreasing for nuclear engineering subjects. Civil Engineering seems to have fallen out of the becking order for candidates; This year, the branch will have less 769 seats compared to last year. Mechanical engineering will also be less than 558 seats this year. Data demonstrations stopped offering at least 22 college civil engineering courses and 13 college mechanical engineering.