38% engineering seats at Panjab University find no takers
Hindustan TimesAs many as 38% seats in the under-graduate engineering programmes offered by Panjab University’s two institutes have remained vacant in the 2022-23 academic session. Biotechnology course at UIET sees lowest intake Between PU’s two engineering institutes, 45% seats have remained vacant in the three UG programmes offered at UICET, while 35% seats are vacant in the six programmes at UIET. Though admission figures show that seats have remained vacant in almost every course at the two institutes, the lowest intake was seen in UIET’s biotechnology engineering programme, with only 13 of the 97 seats getting filled, leaving 87% seats empty. More than half the seats are left vacant in UIET’s mechanical engineering course, where 45 students took admissions against 97 available seats.