hyderabad engineering no more seems to be the goto course as admissions for btech are seeing a downward trend over the past few years many students are now opting for other courses and some opting to study outside the state every year about 30000 seats are going vacant resulting in hundreds of colleges being shut down over the past five to six years bpharmacy bsc nursing are some of the courses being opted by students instead of engineeringright now the situation is such that engineering means computer science all other courses are almost shut and there is absolutely no demand for courses such as mechanical civil electrical among other engineering courses said v balakrishna reddy faculty electrical electronics engineering eee department and president telangana technical institutes employees association ttieabalakrishna reddy said that while there used to be 20000 seats in electrical engineering around 201415 the number has now reduced to 7000 seats in the state same is the case with other core engineering courses civil mechanical among others as they all put together are 40 of total engineering seats in the state while there are 105419 seats for 202122 in 175 engineering colleges about 60 of these seats are in computer science engineering including newly added emerging technology coursesduring the last academic year the number of engineering colleges as per all india council for technical education aicte is 185 this year it has been reduced by 10 in 201516 the number of engineering colleges stood at 266 a year before there were more than 300 colleges in the statestudents their parents and faculty said that one of the main reasons why not many are preferring engineering courses is because of the lack of job opportunities even figures from aicte reveals the same while the total intake in engineering courses was over one lakh in the 202021 academic year hardly 27240 got selected in placementsmy elder daughter completed her engineering in 2017 she tried to secure a job but is now preparing for government bank examinations said a srinivas a parent