Electrical Engineering favorite field at IITs
For years, computer science was a rage among those who made it to the top of the selection list of the joint entrance exam (JEE), which is the passport to the Indian Institutes of Technology. Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Hyderabad who topped the competitive entrance test, didn’t take that road much travelled. Instead, he decided to pursue electrical engineering at IIT-Bombay.
The shift of students’ choices from computer science to electrical engineering can be attributed to the fading appeal of the IT sector. This year, Electrical Engineering opened at All India Rank (AIR) 1 and closed at rank 98. On the contrary, computer science closed at rank 116.
An IIT faculty member said that the trend will soon emerge in all IITs. “Telecommunications is at an equal position as computer science. And now, electrical engineering is at par with computer science. After that, moststudents opt for Mechanical Engineering,” he said.
Even though computer science attracted a lot IIT-JEE toppers this year, around 25 percent of the top 100 tankers opted for electrical engineering even when they could have easily gotten a seat in computer science.
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