20K MBA,53K engg seats may find no takers

“Around 45,000 seats are available in management programmes. When the admission process started,we received approximately 21,000 applications. The seats-aspirants mismatch was there at the beginning itself,” said S K Mahajan,DTE director.

After the third round of the centralised admission process (CAP),24,128 management seats were vacant. These were opened to all eligible (non-CMAT) candidates,842 of whom had applied till July 19.

In Mumbai alone,4,587 seats management seats are to be filled.

DTE officials,however,said Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,Welingkar,Sydenham Institute of Management Studies,Research and Entrepreneurship Education,SIES College of Management Studies and other reputed institutes did not have vacancies.

“The vacancies are mostly in institutes that are relatively new or have failed to ensure quality education and placements (and in basic courses such as information technology,civil and electrical engineering). Aware students are not willing to join institutes that do not deliver quality. This year,25 PGDM institutes have shut,” said an official.

DTE received 1.2 lakh applications for 1.5 lakh engineering seats and at the end of two CAP rounds,54,586 were vacant. In the ongoing third round,only 1,564 seats have been filled so far.

Most 15,644 vacancies are in Pune. In Mumbai,4,441 engineering seats are to be filled.

“The third round ends around July 25 and another 7,000-8,000 seats may be filled,” the DTE official said.