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COURSES SCENARIO

Number about Courses availability

When number of self financing colleges has increased the most important factor we can understand from the numbers is the choice of courses such colleges have introduced and later increase with additional courses or additional seats for the existing courses. These factors may not be easy to decide and there is a need to observe a critical market trend regarding the students’ interest during the period, job market scenario and more importantly experts’ opinion. The art of decision making is highly important before the authorities have decided to introduce a course and policy makers and academics join together to form new courses and curriculum from the standard stream of engineering like Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering

Today’s scenario
The practice of creating new courses has made a good platform to identify key areas of emerging trends time to time that keeps the present list of courses offered by self financing colleges as 29 varying from Architecture to Communication; to Electrical; to Petroleum; and to Faculty of Textile. The complete list of courses offered over the Self financing colleges in Tamilnadu with the code (codes adapted similar to the hand book of TNEA 2010 – Anna University) is presented as a quick reference.

Table 1 List of courses available in Self financing colleges in Tamilnadu

SNO	COURSE	CODE
1	Aeronautical Engineering	AE
2	Automobile Engineering	AU
3	Civil Engineering	CE
4	Computer Science and Engineering	CS
5	Electrical and Electronics Engineering	EE
6	Electronics and Communication Engineering	EC
7	Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering	EI
8	Instrumentation and Control Engineering	IC
9	Marine Engineering	MR
10	Mechanical Engineering	ME
11	Biomedical Engineering	BM
12	Production Engineering	PR
13	Chemical Engineering	CH
14	Information Technology	IT
15	Polymer Technology	PL

16	Textile Technology	TX
17	Biotechnology	BT
18	Textile Technology(Fashion Technology)	TF
19	Petroleum Engineering	PE
20	B.Arch (Architecture)	AR
21	B.Arch (interior Design)	ID
22	Material Science Engineering	MX
23	Mechatronics Engineering	MC
24	Food Technology	FD
25	Medical Electronics Engineering	MD
26	Textile Chemistry	TC
27	Environmental Engineering	EN
28	Fashion Technology	FT
29	Textiles Fashion Technology	TE

Apart from these courses, Anna University campuses or Government / Aided colleges offer a various array of specialized courses that makes the list much bigger and the options provided for the students are multi folded to choose with. Following is the list of courses offered exclusively in such campuses.

SNO	COURSE	CODE
1	Agriculture and Irrigation Engineering(SS)	AI
2	Apparel Technology(SS)	AP
3	Automobile Engineering(SS)	AS
4	Biomedical Engineering (SS)	BY
5	Biotechnology (SS)	BS
6	Ceramic Technology (SS)	CR
7	Chemical and Electro Chemical Engineering(SS)	CC
8	Civil Engineering (SS)	CN
9	Computer Science and Engineering (SS)	CM
10	Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SS)	EY
11	Electrical and Electronics (sandwich)(SS)	ES
12	Electronics and Communication Engineering (SS)	EM
13	Textile Technology(Fashion Technology)(SS)	FY
14	Food Technology (SS)	FS
15	Geo Informatics	GI
16	Industrial Bio Technology	IB
17	Industrial Bio Technology(SS)	IS
18	Industrial Engineering	IE
19	Information Technology (SS)	IM
20	Instrumentation and Control Engineering (SS)	IY
21	Leather Technology	LE
22	Manufacturing Engineering	MN
23	Mechanical Engineering (SS)	MF
24	Mechanical Engineering (sandwich) (SS)	MS
25	Metallurgical Engineering	MT
26	Metallurgical Engineering (SS)	MY
27	Mining Engineering	MI
28	Petro Chemical Technology	PC
29	Petro Refining and Petro Chemical Technology (SS)	PP
30	Pharmaceutical Technology	PH
31	Pharmaceutical Technology (SS)	PM
32	Plastic Technology	PA
33	Printing Technology	PT
34	Production Engineering (SS)	PN
35	Production Engineering (sandwich) (SS)	PS
36	Rubber and Plastic Technology	RP
37	Textile Technology (SS)	TT
38	Fashion Technology(SS)	FY
39	Material Science and Engineering	MA

Trends over the years

whether the trend changes over a period and the location of the colleges? Yes, the courses have been introduced taking in to account of many factors (partially listed above) that will benefit al most all stake holders of the system. Interesting facts could be revealed from the data available and a snap shot has been presented.

Figure 1: Status of the Courses offered in the self financing colleges over the three decades

The picture could be a guide for knowing the criteria for starting a course and the need for new courses over the three decades. As an example the need based analysis might make a necessity to start a separate course only during 2000-09 and specialized courses from the basic engineering faculties have shown a steady growth over two decades but still keeping the fundamental courses at high stake.