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Calcutta University fills all 187 vacant BTech seats offline
The Story in Brief
Calcutta University has filled all 187 vacant BTech seats across 14 disciplines in a single institute-level decentralised offline counselling round, university officials said. The opening and closing WBJEE ranks for computer science and engineering were 2,156 and 3,227 respectively, while information technology saw ranks from 2,505 to 4,195.
During the centralised admissions earlier, the same seats remained unfilled. A Calcutta University official said the outcome was surprising and required examination, given that initially there appeared to be a lack of student interest in BTech courses at the university. At Jadavpur University, 182 vacant seats were also filled through decentralised counselling between 28 October and 30 October. The highest-ranked BTech candidate at Jadavpur this year was a WBJEE 18th rank-holder who chose civil engineering. The best closing rank in the general category at Jadavpur was 226 for computer science and engineering.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Calcutta University’s own shelling of 187 vacant BTech seats in a single offline round undercuts the earlier centralised process that left those seats empty. The WBJEE ranks that landed in this round, up to 4,195 for IT, are far lower than centralised numbers, meaning many students who could afford to wait found better-fit branches after the first round. The university itself admits it must now examine why its programmes failed in centralised allotments while succeeding offline. The key figure to watch is the 63 jute technology seats, filled for the first time, suggesting that niche courses may depend more on late-cycle discovery than initial demand.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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