PUNE: The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has uploaded the category-wise cut-off marks for the last two academic years, which should be checked before filling up the online admission forms for the engineering course’s first year, engineering college teachers have told candidates who are in the process of filling up the said forms.
The last date to fill up the forms and upload the documents online is November 18, after which the first merit list will be published by the cell on November 27.
An engineering college professor, on the condition of anonymity, said that many private colleges are under a lot of pressure financially and many professors have not been paid their full salaries in the past two years. “This automatically causes a lot of issues. Some colleges have also asked senior faculty members to leave if they want, because they can then employ recently passed out postgraduates who can be paid less for the same work. In the end, placements are the biggest deciding factor for the students. So, my advice is to check placement data before zeroing in on a college,” the professor said.
A candidate who is filling up his admission forms, however, complained that many colleges are not putting up their complete data online. “It is not possible to visit all colleges. We mostly rely on their websites, but many colleges just give names of companies who hire from them, without details — like when did they hire, which department did they hire from, how many were hired, what was the average salary, and more. There is also not much information on faculty. Hence, choosing a college, especially if one has got fewer marks in the CET, is very hard. Except names of renowned colleges, nobody knows the status of the remaining ones — which is where maximum students end up,” he said.
On December 6, all colleges will commence their academic activities, while the cut-off date for all admissions for the academic year 2021-22 will be December 23.
