Students opting for higher studies over software jobs

​Hyderabad: Job opportunities in irrigation, water conservation, teaching and research in core areas of engineering are some of the aspects which have driven students to shun opting for jobs in the software industry coming their way.

Reflecting this trend in the Telangana State Postgraduate Engineering Common Entrance Test-2018 (TSPGECET-2018), civil engineering became the most sought-after stream followed by electronics and communications, electrical and mechanical engineering stream this year.

Japala Anusha, who secured first rank in civil engineering stream, is waiting for the results of Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) examination conducted by the Telangana Public Service Commission (TSPSC). Anusha wanted to be an engineer in her core branch of study than join a software job. Working in irrigation area and water management were her chosen interests. It was against this backdrop that she had appeared to study postgraduation to further enhance her domain knowledge.

G Sai Sumanth Reddy, coming from a farmer's family, is all set on a long journey to pursue his Ph D, after completing his postgraduate in civil engineering. "I have grown up seeing the Nizam Sagar and the way water is managed since my childhood. Somehow, it got internalised in me. Though my father is a farmer, my mother is a housewife, both have stood solidly behind me to pursue my interest than getting adjusted by landing a software job," he said.

Pulletikurti Mounica completed her B Tech from Osmania University and wanted to continue her studies further in her core area than a job in information technology.

Ranked top in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) Kurella Abhigna from Rangareddy district passed her B Tech from Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), Basara in ECE and wanted to explore her interest in the sub-branch of signal processing, and related fields like neural networks and artificial intelligence and the like.

In the TSPGECET-2018 results announced here on Thursday, Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE), Chairman Prof T Papi Reddy said that 1,209 candidates qualified in the TSPGECET-2018. The civil engineering stream stood top ahead of all other streams with the highest number of candidates qualifying in that stream to take admission at the postgraduate level.

TSPGECET-2018 Chairman and Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Prof S Ramachandram said that the admission test was conducted for ME, M Tech, M Arch and M Pharm and graduate level Pharm-D (Post Baccalaureate) programmes from May 28 to May 31, this year. He said that the test was conducted in 17 subjects of engineering, technology, architecture and pharmacy disciplines in sixteen centres in the regions of Hyderabad and Warangal.

In all, 25,100 candidates registered for the test and 22,461 appeared for the entrance test, in which, 20,131 qualified, he said. The results along with the marks obtained will be made available on the website: www.pgecet.tsche.ac.in. Candidates can download their rank cards from the same website, he said.