turning entrepreneur seemed perfect for her after enrolling for a course in business management she didnt find it challenging enough i wanted it to be practical and not theoretical so i chose to quit as early as possible rather than wasting my time completing that degree my parents initially advised me to finish what i started off but when i explained to them they understood and were supportive says prathika who has now taken up bachelors of arts in psychology literature and journalism the shift has given her the chance to meet people and interact with them especially when it comes to the course work for psychology or journalism something that she believed was lacking in her previous course as the emphasis there was on learning theories within the four walls of a classroom the costs incurred for courses per yearthe approximate costs incurred per year excluding admissionsengineering courses 40k to 1 lakhbusiness studies 1 lakhba courses 30k to 70kmedia studies 80k to 1llaw 50k to 70kculinary arts 1 lakh city students reveal that the most common shifts are as followsengineering to pure science buisness studies arts mass mediamedicine to pure science arts mass media commerce business studies to arts culinary arts fine arts mass mediaarts to fine arts lawprofessional insightamardeep bhatia academic counsellor and founder of a citybased academic consulting firm says in india we dont see the trend of students dropping out because their moral values are such that they prohibit us from going against our elders students and parents dont look for the best fit instead they look for the best college and assume it offers the best courses that trend is slowly changing and children are now fighting for what they really believe in she goes on to add most children dont know what they want to do and later they drop out they should be told that it is okay to not to know and their future is not uncertain because they dont know and parents should be supportive of their decision it is important to understand the overall personality of the individualpursue passion but with cautionwriterdirector pawan kumar who quit engineering in his second year says i chose to do engineering as i was interested in science the reason i quit was because i felt that the education system did not serve the purpose of what i wanted to do and i would be spending a few years just to get a degree however the director adds a word of caution for students students who wish to drop out of courses usually hear only success stories of other dropouts but the stories of failures are not known we shouldnt be telling youngsters that dropping out of college is cool because it requires a lot of clarity hard work and understanding your interests he addswhen quitting is not the answerwriterdirector hemanth m rao who wanted to take up a career in filmmaking chose to finish his degree instead of quitting his degree