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By K. Ramachandran
CHENNAI, AUG. 5. A few days ahead of the start of the single-window system of counselling, for engineering admissions, candidates have a useful source of information to decide on the college to join. The results of the April-May 2004 semester examinations in B.E/B.Tech in 227 affiliated colleges of Anna University give a picture of the state of affairs in each institution. The statistics (available on the university web site www.annuniv.edu) shows that 64,012 of the 1,54, 658 candidates who appeared for II, IV and VI semester examinations (including those who wrote `arrear papers' too) passed — an overall pass percentage of 41.39 for all affiliated colleges. Autonomous colleges are not included in the list. University authorities say, however, this will not reflect the entire picture. The percentage is computed for all papers put together. ``One can also look at things differently, going branch-wise, region-wise or even semester-wise. It is always possible that in one branch or in one semester, a large number of students would have done extremely well or otherwise. This would not reflect the over all picture,'' says an administrator.
The top 10
However, looking at the statistics on the web site, one can get an idea of the standard of an institution. For example, the Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Coimbatore, has occupied the first place among unaided institutions, with a 76.7 pass percentage. But now it is a deemed university. The A.C College of Technology, Karaikudi, takes the second spot with 76 per cent. The Kongu College of Engineering, Perundurai in Erode district, has taken the third place (in effect, the first place among the self-financing engineering colleges, outdoing last semester's toppers, Sri Sivasubramania Nadar College and Velammal Engineering College, both near Chennai) with a pass percentage of 73.1. The other colleges in the `top 10' are the Kumaraguru College of Engineering, Coimbatore; Sri Krishna College of Engineering, Coimbatore; Velamaal Engineering College; the Mepco Schlenk College of Engineering, Sivakasi; Sri Sivasubramania Nadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam; the Bannari Amman College of Engineering, Sathyamangalam in Erode district; and the Institute of Road Transport, Erode. Twenty of the 227 colleges have recorded more than 60 per cent pass, three of them more than 70 per cent. Among the `top 25 colleges', only eight are from Chennai and nearby areas.
Western districts shine
The growing strength of western districts in providing vibrant engineering education is clear from the fact that more than a dozen of the first 25 ranked colleges (only in the limited context of the three semester examination results) are from the Coimbatore-Erode-Salem belt. At the other end of the spectrum are 58 unaided colleges which have achieved a pass percentage less than 25. Among them, it is less than 20 per cent in 34 self-financing colleges. Perhaps, these results will indicate the trend of this year's admissions, say engineering administrators.
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