CUSAT CAT Cutoff Ranks 2015

Cochin University of Science and Technology Common Admission Test Cutoff Ranks 2015 has been Published. All Students who are aspiring for Admission to B.Tech Engineering Programs in Cochin University of Science & Technologyand searching for CUSAT Previous Year Opening and Closing Ranks are hereby informed that CUSAT IRAA which Organizes CUSAT Admission and Counseling Process has Published CUSAT CAT 2015 Last Ranks Admitted for B.Tech Programs. Students who were Qualified in CUSAT CAT 2016 Entrance Test and Eligible to appear for CUSAT CAT 2016 Counselling and interested to check CUSAT CAT 2015 Cutoff Ranks Can check CUSAT CAT 2015 Opening and Closing Ranks.

CUSAT CAT 2015 Cutoff Ranks – CUSAT CAT 2015 Opening and Closing Ranks
Branch Code	Branch Name	GEN	ETB	MSM	OBH	OBX	LCC	PMC	DHV
BTCE1F	Civil Engineering (SQ)	3499	4068	4065		16192	4234		8222
BTCE1P	Civil Engineering(AQ)	2029	6053	4821	5941		9309		11274
BTCE2F	Civil Engineering (SQ)	6084	6781	7158	6611	19157
BTCE2P	Civil Engineering(AQ)	2769	8129	8253					15424
BTCS1F	Computer Science & Engineering  (SQ)	2407	3999	2844	3426		4498		8011
BTCS1P	Computer Science & Engineering (AQ)	978	6780	3727	3545		5260		15294
BTCS2F	Computer Science & Engineering  (SQ)	7155	8086	8281			10672
BTCS2P	Computer Science & Engineering (AQ)	2288							14127
BTEC1F	Electronics &Communication Engineering  (SQ)	3114	3991	3743	5284		3395	17726	5601
BTEC1P	Electronics &Communication Engineering (AQ)	2045	6750	4371		15543	10872		12517
BTEC2F	Electronics &Communication Engineering  (SQ)	6969				18318	10527
BTEC2P	Electronics &Communication Engineering (AQ)	20926
BTEE1F	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (SQ)	2616	3462	3266	3637	14551	4269
BTEE1P	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (AQ)	1518	6583	4344	4562		9733		6787
BTEE2F	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (SQ)	6695	7660		7370		7990		11956
BTEE2P	Electronics &Electrical Engineering (AQ)	2593	7057
BTINST	Instrumentation Engineering	5354	8946	7522			12519
BTIT1F	Information Technology  (SQ)	6710	8306	7644			9296		9274
BTIT1P	Information Technology (AQ)	2121	8483				7929	15978
BTIT2F	Information Technology (SQ)	18966
BTIT2P	Information Technology (AQ)	2719
BTME1F	Mechanical Engineering (SQ)	1678	2062	1978	1725		3606	3442
BTME1P	Mechanical Engineering (AQ)	1412	4213	2623	2663	17842	7716		10515
BTME2F	Mechanical Engineering (SQ)	3871	4810	4309	4433		4254		11161
BTME2P	Mechanical Engineering (AQ)	1904	6359	6250			9725
BTPSRF	Polymer Science & Engineering	5336		6348			6021
BTSF1F	Safety & Fire Engineering (SQ)	1650	2518	1677	7682		4535		10096
BTSF1P	Safety & Fire Engineering (AQ)	709	4811	2086			6961
BTSHPF	Naval Architecture &Ship Building	150	607	226	955	8573	357	7874	2879
MSPHOT	5 Year Integrated M.Sc in Photonics	4262	5191	5095	5578				12650
BTMR1F	Marine Engineering (SQ)	4454	5452	7457	4896	7150	11894		11402
BTMR1P	Marine Engineering (AQ)	7925	19987	17968	13719		15041		13484

: CUSAT CAT 2015 Opening and Closing Ranks for VSK, KMB, KSC, KST, NRI, AIQ, CHD, SPQ Categories : 

CUSAT CAT 2015 Cutoff Ranks – CUSAT CAT 2015 Opening and Closing Ranks
Branch Code	Branch Name	VSK	KMB	KSC	KST	NRI	AIQ	CHD	SPQ
BTCE1F	Civil Engineering (SQ)	5300	12254	13665	14634
BTCE1P	Civil Engineering(AQ)	6596		15309		20718		7026
BTCE2F	Civil Engineering (SQ)			14179
BTCE2P	Civil Engineering(AQ)			17139		19876
BTCS1F	Computer Science & Engineering  (SQ)	2574		17113	20946
BTCS1P	Computer Science & Engineering (AQ)		18924	18638		19951		3215
BTCS2F	Computer Science & Engineering  (SQ)
BTCS2P	Computer Science & Engineering (AQ)			20560		4157
BTEC1F	Electronics &Communication Engineering  (SQ)	4808		16812
BTEC1P	Electronics &Communication Engineering (AQ)	7164	12373	20300		15920		11629
BTEC2F	Electronics &Communication Engineering  (SQ)		16596
BTEC2P	Electronics &Communication Engineering (AQ)					4723
BTEE1F	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (SQ)	4858	19460	15853
BTEE1P	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (AQ)			18129		6881		5666
BTEE2F	Electronics &Electrical Engineering  (SQ)			12978
BTEE2P	Electronics &Electrical Engineering (AQ)	10329		20888
BTINST	Instrumentation Engineering	10608		15914			1371
BTIT1F	Information Technology  (SQ)	9241	16733	18336
BTIT1P	Information Technology (AQ)	12860		20426		20398		12550
BTIT2F	Information Technology (SQ)
BTIT2P	Information Technology (AQ)					4680
BTME1F	Mechanical Engineering (SQ)	3538		6659	12714
BTME1P	Mechanical Engineering (AQ)	4159		12301		12190		9335
BTME2F	Mechanical Engineering (SQ)
BTME2P	Mechanical Engineering (AQ)		18051	15696		4941
BTPSRF	Polymer Science & Engineering			18312			5561
BTSF1F	Safety & Fire Engineering (SQ)			15564
BTSF1P	Safety & Fire Engineering (AQ)	3998		19778		9973			19526
BTSHPF	Naval Architecture &Ship Building	711		3623	20052		215		10951
MSPHOT	5 Year Integrated M.Sc in Photonics			9365			2625
BTMR1F	Marine Engineering (SQ)			12139
BTMR1P	Marine Engineering (AQ)		19411	18989		17782

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90% Indian engineering graduates are not employable – why?

The jury is out for the year 2013, on the quality of the Indian education system. The India employability report by Aspiring Minds, a research firm, has bought out the obvious fact that the quality of the education system in India is, well, abysmal.

But it is the numbers that really dents the point home. Chennai, home to Anna University, one of the largest universities in India with about 400 colleges affiliated to it, has an employability rate of an awful 1%. Even the the state with the highest employability percentage, Delhi, is only at 13%. Bangalore, the so called ‘silicon valley of India’ is at a staggering 3.2%.

Clearly, something is horribly wrong with our technology education system. We atHackerEarth decided to pen down these problems and here’s a list of things could be wrong –

1. Outdated learning – learning basics is one thing, but learning ancient programming languages, for example, FORTRAN, and not staying in touch with the industry could be one reason why engineering students are not relevant to today’s industry.
2. Theory vs Practice – The current education system poses a chasm between theory and practice. Very little of what is learnt at college can be put into practice in everyday life. Hence, the best performers of the system, which are the kids with the best grades, actually can do very little work and need to be separately trained for it. That’s an expense that not everyone in the industry wants to take.
3. Exam culture – Learning is a continual process, and exams are a way to measure the extent of your learning. It is not the end all. Unfortunately, the CGPA or grade of a graduate is the first filter for employment, and hence students lay emphasis on only the exam and not on learning the subject. This results in weak fundamentals, and hence, industry irrelevance.
4. Lack of exposure – Given that the end goal of technical education is a placement in a college, the amount of exposure given to students about the industry is also very little. It is not until the final year of their college that they begin to understand what the industry really wants. An early exposure to industry can give students an idea of what is relevant in the industry, which they can learn in their own time.
5. Bad career matching – Over the years, the lucrative opportunities that a professional life in the technology industry has provided, has made engineering sciences the de-facto choice for graduate studies. Weather or not the student has the aptitude for the stream is not taken into account, resulting in uninterested engineering candidates, who haven’t taken to their subjects as much as they should have, making them irrelevant to the industry.

Now these are not unknown reasons. Every unemployed engineering graduate in the country knows these reasons, as they have affected his/her life directly. Now they’re playing catch up.

I believe there is quite a lot opportunities for companies like us. These problems have been prevalent for over a decade now and if they still haven’t changed, I don’t expect them to change either. But small teams like our own have been providing very good alternatives for quite a while.

The impact of companies like Khan Academy and Coursera have been phenomenal from a learning perspective. But in the Indian context, education has no meaning without a job. This is the horrible reality that plagues this country. This is a national sentiment and changing it will take at least a century or so.

While learning for learning sake and doing the job that you love to do is utopia, the first step towards it would be to find a middle ground between the ideal and reality. Keep jobs as a priority, but make people attain different goals to achieve it. Put out industry relevant problems and a job opportunity for everyone who can solve the problem within constraints.

Not only is this industry relevant, it also lays emphasis on the importance of learning the basics, as the stronger your foundations, the quicker and better you can solve these programs. You can’t mug up content for these tests; you need to know your skill very well. And the kind of problems that you get to solve is a good measure of what the industry wants.

The problem is fairly easy to solve for engineering and many like us are solving it at scale. Should you be disheartened with the India Employability Survey – Yes. But does that mean there is no hope? – No. Definitely not.

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1.5 Million Engineering Pass Outs In India Every Year, Fewer Getting Hired [Trends]

Engineering colleges have been springing up like wild mushrooms in India in the last few years. Their number has gone up from a not too modest 1,511 colleges in 2006-07 to an astoundingly high 3,345 in 2014-15. The state of Andhra Pradesh alone has more than 700 colleges.

If these figures are anything to go by, it would be easy to be led into believing that opting for a degree in engineering would be a wise career move in India. The fact, however, remains that 20-33% out of the 1.5 million engineering graduates passing out every year run the risk of not getting a job at all, points out EconomicTimes. For those who do, the entry-level salary is pathetically low, and has stagnated at that level for the last eight-nine years, though the prices of everything from groceries to vehicle fuel have shot up during the same period.

Whether it is the below-par quality of education provided by private colleges or the stagnating (if not shrinking) demand for the number of engineers, the huge number of engineering pass outs – which, incidentally, is more than the total number of engineers produced by the USA and China combined together, face a bleak future.

A large percentage of the ‘fortunate’ ones who do end up getting a job after an engineering degree take up jobs which are well below their technical qualifications, since the supply far outnumbers the demand. They do not get jobs for which they are qualified or ‘suitable’ jobs, which makes the matters worse.

“In that case, there is both unemployment and underemployment,” says E Balaji, former CEO of manpower consulting firm Randstad. “Several engineers end up working as sales executives, so there is no link between what they studied and what they do.”

All the more threatening is the fact that the two key industries which hire engineers in India- the IT and ITes and the manufacturing sector- are also hiring a lesser number of them than before.

The IT industry in India, which grew by as much as 30% up till five years back, has slowed down to a 10.2%growth rate at present. The demand for qualified professionals in the field has understandably gone down too.

The rapid growth in the number of engineering colleges can be attributed to an ecosystem built around feeding the $110 billion outsourcing market and the huge demand for engineers in the IT sector in India itself.

Sadly however, the demand for IT related jobs in India fell sharply due to non-linear growth models of IT companies and lesser number of men required to handle the same jobs as before due to a higher degree of automation.

Making matters worse is the fact that the start-up salary offered to fresh engineering pass outs is expected to stagnate at more or less the same level in the next 3- 5 years, said LiveMint last year. Entry level salary package for a software engineer which has hovered around Rs 2.75 lakh to Rs 3.25 lakh ($4,600- $5,400 per annum) since the last eight-nine years should not, therefore, hope for a turnaround or for better days.

The two biggest recruiters in the IT sector, TCS and Infosys, do not plan to hike their entry level salary for fresh recruits and they are quite clear about it.

“At the moment we are giving campus offers where we have not changed anything as far as the salary component is concerned. It (entry-level salaries) remains stagnant for a while…We are going with the same structure as we have. There is no change. And we are getting good talent,”said Ajoy Mukherjee, global head of human resources, TCS to a leading Indian daily.

TCS, however, will continue to scout the various engineering colleges in its bid to hunt for the best talent in the industry and look forward to hiring 35,000 professionals in 2014-15 as compared to 25,000 the previous year.

A worrying trend that has come to be observed is that not only students from some of the lower rung colleges, but also some of the best brains that cleared the tough entrance tests to reach the 10 exalted Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

As against 76% of the 1,389 IIT Mumbai pass outs getting campus placements during the 2011-12 session, only a little above 66% out of the total 1,501 could find campus placements in 2012-13, as per sources.

The situation is grimmer for Tier II and Tier III colleges. The huge disparity between start out salary for top colleges and the not so highly sought after ones, which has already been highly pronounced, is expected to widen further. While average startup salary for an IIT pass out is Rs 9-10 lakh ($15-16,000) per year, that of a second grade college pass out is barely Rs 1.80-2 lakh ($3,000-3,300) a year.

Students who come from humble economic backgrounds and whose parents had to arrange study loans to be able to give their wards a decent education and ensure a bright future are worried too.

The numbers are alarming. Most of the engineering graduates who fail to grab an employment in their respective industry, end up joining call centers or BPO units in MNCs that could be disastrous for them in the future. However, the promising and flourishing growth of the startup ecosystem in India is emerging as a rescuer for those who are hard working, but still fail to get through the stringent interview process in MNCs, said Subhendu Panigrahi – Founder & CEO, Venturesity

Engineers who used to dream of working in swanky offices, living in penthouses and driving luxury cars are now concerned about finding ‘decent’ openings as they get into their final year at college.

Not surprisingly, engineers are taking up taking up jobs for which they are not qualified. The logical Indian,a huge Facebook community which started their own website some time back, wrote about a mechanical engineer who is driving an auto rickshaw in New Delhi because he has hungry mouths to feed and a family to look after.

Now, while that is a sad pointer to the grim scenario, it is pertinent to point out that only a small percentage of those who ‘pass out’ from engineering colleges do possess any skills worth the name at all. Most of them are not ‘employable’ and/ or ‘trainable’, feel the employers, a tragic reflection of the state of our training and academic institutions. The engineers produced by the huge number of private engineering colleges which have come up after the government sanction for them add up only by way of numbers, in the absence of sound infrastructure, well qualified staff and no emphasis on imparting quality education.

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