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The IIT JEE-Advanced entrance exam results released on September 11 showed that IIT Delhi Zone had the most candidates among the top 500 with 133. Closely followed by the IIT Madras zone with 132 candidates and the IIT Bombay zone with 126 students.
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And in the top 10 list, IIT Madras Circle led with five candidates, followed by IIT Bombay Zone on three and IIT Delhi and Kharagpur Zones claiming one spot each.
Uttar Pradesh emerged as the top state with 3,864 qualified candidates, while Rajasthan, home of the Kota Study Center, came in second with 3,339 candidates. Maharashtra sends 3,036 candidates to IITs, while Andhra Pradesh and Telangana coaching centers rank fourth and fifth respectively.
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Half of all engineering offices in India are located in the five southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. The rest of the seats are fairly well distributed across the country.
However, capacity utilization across India is only 49.2%. While approved engineering positions were 16.6 lakh in 2017-18, student enrollment was 8.18 lakh. This indicates that the supply of technical seats exceeds the demand for them.
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In 2013-14, enrollment was 59% of total capacity. States with the smaller number of seats have reported higher enrollment percentages, while the larger capacity states have reported lower percentages of engineering enrollments, with Karnataka being an exception.
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The enrollment percentage in Tamil Nadu, which had 3.02 lakh engineering positions in 2017-18, was only 53% while that of Karnataka was 65%.
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Delhi, with around 10,700 places, had an enrollment rate of 79%. Overall, the number of students who found a place at the end of the academic year was 3.45 lakh, or about 42% of the total number of students enrolled in engineering. This is an increase from 29% of students placed in 2013-14.
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Now comes the most important factor: employability. A NASSCOM survey in 2019 had found that out of about 15,000 engineering graduates India produces each year, only 2.5,000 are land jobs. SHL’s 2019 National Employability Report for Engineers shows that engineer employability is just 16.25% in IT service companies and 3.4% in IT products. For non-tech positions such as ITeS/BPO staff, it goes up to 39%.
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The report reveals that students from Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana and West Bengal have the highest employability in IT service roles.
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Odisha, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh constitute the next level of employability. Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan fell into the third category. Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra were in the bottom 25 percentiles.
States with the highest number of colleges had the lowest percentage employability.
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