Large scale vacancy of engineering seats in colleges throughout Maharashtra last year had raised a question whether the stream was finally losing sheen. However, current figures of aspirants appearing in Maharashtra Health and Technology Common Entrance Examination (MHT-CET 2011) on May 12 have quelled these doubts.
This may be music to the ears of private engineering colleges. The number of MHT-CET aspirants has surged by over 17,000 compared to last year. Over 3.02 lakh candidates would be attempting the exam against 2.85 lakh last year. The test thus maintains the trend of continuously rising number of students taking it every year. Over one lakh engineering seats, 7,000 medical and 8,000 pharmacy are up for grabs for the students through MHT-CET.
Like previous years, the number of students opting for engineering courses has outnumbered their counterparts aspiring to take admission into medical stream. This is perhaps due to fewer medical seats, tougher contest for the admission to the government medical colleges and very high fees of private ones. This year 45,541 candidates have applied for the biology group (for medical admissions) compared to 1.07 lakh for the mathematics (for engineering admissions) and 1.49 lakh for biology and mathematics combine (students appearing for both fields).
Interestingly, the number of aspirants for medical seats witnessed a significant jump this year as compared to last six years. Last year, 33,665 had appeared for the exam.
Even in case of Nagpur division, earlier it was thought that number of students might reduce. But they've actually increased by over 2,000 to touch all-time high of 35,212. In Nagpur, however there is an increase of only 200 students as per final figures from the Mumbai-based office of Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), the competent authority for the MHT-CET exam. From Nagpur 17,717 students are appearing for the much-awaited exam, followed by Chandrapur at 5,549, and Bhandara at 3,804.
As per DMER sources, the results would be declared on or before June 14 while the final merit list will be out on June 25. The process of form filling and centralized admissions process (CAP) would probably start from June last week or July first week.
This may be music to the ears of private engineering colleges. The number of MHT-CET aspirants has surged by over 17,000 compared to last year. Over 3.02 lakh candidates would be attempting the exam against 2.85 lakh last year. The test thus maintains the trend of continuously rising number of students taking it every year. Over one lakh engineering seats, 7,000 medical and 8,000 pharmacy are up for grabs for the students through MHT-CET.
Like previous years, the number of students opting for engineering courses has outnumbered their counterparts aspiring to take admission into medical stream. This is perhaps due to fewer medical seats, tougher contest for the admission to the government medical colleges and very high fees of private ones. This year 45,541 candidates have applied for the biology group (for medical admissions) compared to 1.07 lakh for the mathematics (for engineering admissions) and 1.49 lakh for biology and mathematics combine (students appearing for both fields).
Interestingly, the number of aspirants for medical seats witnessed a significant jump this year as compared to last six years. Last year, 33,665 had appeared for the exam.
Even in case of Nagpur division, earlier it was thought that number of students might reduce. But they've actually increased by over 2,000 to touch all-time high of 35,212. In Nagpur, however there is an increase of only 200 students as per final figures from the Mumbai-based office of Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), the competent authority for the MHT-CET exam. From Nagpur 17,717 students are appearing for the much-awaited exam, followed by Chandrapur at 5,549, and Bhandara at 3,804.
As per DMER sources, the results would be declared on or before June 14 while the final merit list will be out on June 25. The process of form filling and centralized admissions process (CAP) would probably start from June last week or July first week.
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