Engineering

Around 50 meritorious girl students with a family income of less than Rs. 1 lakh will be helped by the Maharashtra government to get admission into the IITs for pursuing engineering courses. As per a source, soon an entrance examination will be held considering the math and science syllabus between class VIII and class X across the state. Girl students clearing the same will be selected PACE is an institute that imparts training for enrolment into the IITs across the country and the government has signed a MoU with the same to help the meritorious girls from economically weaker section...

Students passing standard XII examinations with subjects like biology, biotechnology or technical vocational subjects are now eligible to apply for the ongoing centralized admission process (CAP) for the first-year engineering degree course in Maharashtra. The forms can be submitted to the designated application receipt centre (ARC) till 5 pm on Saturday, June 15, 2013. A notification was passed by the state director of technical education (DTE) on Thursday, June 13, 2013. This prescribed key alterations in the eligibility criteria for engineering admissions. These alterations follow...

Anna University is set to announce the rank list of 521 affiliated engineering colleges of Tamil Nadu on Monday, June 17, 2013. The university was directed to publish the rank list of all the colleges in Tamil Nadu before Monday, June 17, 2013 by division bench of Acting Chief Justice R K Agarwal and Justice M Sathianarayanan under the Madras High Court based on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The PIL was filed by the father of an applicant who said that although various colleges do not have the required facilities, they mislead students with dubious advertisements. The PIL states...

IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) may have to commence special coaching for those reserved category students who have failed to meet the grade even after reducing cut offs for them. Moreover, the IITs are now forced to restart the preparatory course as there are less numbers of students for filling the reserved category seats. A very small number of students from reserved category this year were unable to make the cut. For these students, IITs will not only have to lower their cut offs but also restart their preparatory course.  IITs are majorly falling short of quota...

On Tuesday, June 11, the model answers for JEE (Joint Entrance Examination - Advanced) were released revealing errors in about 2 questions, one each in math and physics paper. These errors may cost students about 6 marks, which can make a significant impact on the students all-India rank. As per the model answers, in the math section i.e. in paper-1, question number 48 shows about 3 correct answers, i.e. A, C or AC. But, only one correct answer can be marked in the question. Therefore, if a student has marked more than one correct answer then he or she will be marked negative for that...

University of Delhi (DU), Delhi has announced the exam dates for DU Cluster of Innovation Center (CIC) B.Tech/B.S 2013, which will be held in July 2013. The B.Tech/B.S exam will be held on  Sunday, July 21, 2013. B.Tech/B.S Exam 2013 is conducted by University of Delhi for taking admission to 4 year regular full time Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and Bachelor of Science (B.S) programs in Innovation with Maths & Information Technology and B.Tech in Humanities offered at Cluster Innovation Center (CIC) for the academic session 2013. Eligibility Criteria for DU CIC...

Consortium of Association has announced the exam dates for the Engineering and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (EAMCET-AC-2013), which will be conducted in June 2013. The EAMCET-AC entrance test will be held on Sunday, June 23, 2013. Consortium of Association conducts EAMCET-AC entrance test for taking admission into the first year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm MPC) programs offered in private colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh for the academic year 2013-14. Eligibility Criteria for EAMCET-AC 2013 : Candidates should have...

UGC (University Grants Commission), the higher education regulator in India has ordered about 566 universities not to affiliate any technical or management colleges until the regulations and guidelines for technical courses are put in place for them. This directive of UGC is a result of Supreme Court’s judgment on Thursday, April 25 that MBA and other management programs shall not come under the domain of “technical education”. The court also mentioned that private institutions across the country will not require approval of AICTE (All India Council for Technical...

The charm of engineering colleges seems to be reducing with time. The first round of engineering counseling organized by DTE (directorate of technical education) in Madhya Pradesh affirms this trend. There around 219 engineering colleges in Madhya Pradesh offering 1, 00,000 engineering seats. Till now only 41,731 students have registered for these seats. Such a small number of applicants have rung the alarm bell for DTE. Following this, on Monday, June 10, DTE extended the last date for first round of counseling for another 3 more days. Last few years are witnessing 25,000 vacant...

Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka - Under Graduate Entrance Test (COMEDK UGET) 2013 Results were declared on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 by  COMEDK . Candidates, who have appeared for the exam, can check their Results on the official website of  COMEDK . The counseling dates for COMEDK UGET (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka - Under Graduate Entrance Test), 2013 have been announced by COMEDK for admissions to Medical/Dental and Engineering programs. COMEDK UGET 2013 exam was held on Sunday, May 12,...