Four-fold increase in Gujarat’s Engineering colleges and seats

There were 19,000 degree engineering seats in Gujarat last year. This year there are 36,023 seats. Similarly, there were 32,000 diploma engineering seats last year in the state, which are increased to 54,000 this year.

After almost a decade, Gujarat government’s higher and technical education policy to develop horizontal educational infrastructure in the state seems paying.

In year 2001-02 Gujarat had 23 degree engineering colleges with 9011 seats. In last less than 10 years there is 400% increase with 36,023 seats presently.

According to Director of Gujarat’s Technical Education, Manish Bhardwaj, in year 2001-02 there were 13 degree pharmacy colleges with 693 seats. Today there are 82 pharmacy colleges with 4905 seats. There were 35 diploma engineering colleges with 10,490 seats. Now there are 79 diploma engineering colleges with 54,000 seats. Diploma pharmacy colleges are increased from 9 to 18 and seats have increased from 570 to 1110 today. There were 25 MBA colleges with 1865 seats in 2001, but now there are 85 colleges with 6920 seats. MCA colleges were increased from 27 to 50 and seats from 1301 to 3150.

In total there were 132 engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA colleges which are now 391 and seats have increased from 2390 to 106108.

If this is not enough, the technical education department has planned to start 12 degree and 7 diploma technical education colleges next year on semi finance public private partnership model.