Applied Science and Engineering Journal for Advanced Research

1. Introduction

In this case study, the author worked on various parameters required to obtained good number of admissions especially in technical courses available. This case study is performed on one of the best Institute of Punjab. The Institute is running 37 courses with 2880 Intake plus students admitted in 2^nd year through Lateral Entry (LEET). The author collected the data based on available courses; distribute the available courses in 04 categories based on demand and also checked the distance of the Institute from various feeder areas so that the Institute teams can make strategy and planning to cover maximum areas.

2. Courses Available and its Eligibility

The Institute provides education in technical and non technical courses affiliated with different State Universities, All India Council of technical education (AICTE), Pharmacy council of India (PCI), Technical State board, Nursing councils, Bar council etc. The Institute provides 37 courses in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Allied, Agriculture, Nursing, Education (B.Ed) etc. The list of available courses with eligibility criteria is shown in table 1. Further table 1 also shows that how many courses the students can opted after completing particular education e.g. after 10^th students can opted for 05 courses, after 10+2 (Arts) student can opted for 05 courses and so on.

Table 1: Eligibility of various courses

3. Category wise Distribution of Courses

The author distributed these 37 courses in four categories as per the present course demand in 2024-25. These categories are given in table 2:

a. Backbone regular courses: These courses are the backbone of any Institutes. Without these courses no Institute will survive. As per present scenario, the author selected 11 courses in this category which includes B.Tech, M. Tech, Diploma in Engineering, B.Sc (Non medical), B. Sc (Bio Tech.), B. Sc (Agriculture), MBA, M.Sc (Physics, Chemistry, Maths), M.Com (H).

b. Hide and seek courses: Due to lack of awareness of such courses Institute have to search for the students. As per present scenario, the author selected 09 courses in this category which includes B.Sc (Anasthesia Tech.), B.Sc (Dialysis Tech.), B.Sc (Cardiac Care), B.Sc (Respiratory Care), B. Sc (RMIT), B.Sc (Operation theater technician), B.Sc (RIT), B.Sc (MLS), M.Sc (MLS).

c. Hot cake courses: These are such courses in which present demand is at its maximum and students themselves approach the institute for admission. Institutes tried to get good students who will complete their courses within time with good grades. The author has selected 13 courses in this category includes ANM, GNM, B. Sc (Nursing), B. Sc (Nursing) Post Basic, B.Ed, LLB, BA LLB, D. Pharmacy, B. Pharmacy, BBA, BCA, B. Com (H) & MCA.

d. Non technical skilled courses: These are non technical skilled courses which provide direct job opportunities after 06 months. It includes 04 courses home based care helper, OT attended, Ambulance attendance, Hospital and home care attended.

Table 2: Distribution of 1^st year and LEET courses in various categories in 2024-25

The basic eligibility for doing M. Tech is B. Tech. The Institute is offering M. Tech in 06 branches with total intake of 120 students. Diploma is also backbone of the Institute. The basic eligibility of diploma 1^st Year is 10^th, 10+2 (Arts, Commerce) and in LEET it is 10+2 NM, ITI, 10+2 Vocational. As per the present scenario, it is expected to fill 190 seats in 1^st year diploma and around 40 in diploma LEET. The reason for filling lower seats through LEET in diploma is non availability of ITI eligible students especially in CSE, ECE and Civil.

Table 4: Total intake in B.Tech and minimum required admissions in 2025-26

Table 5: Total intake in M. Tech and minimum required admissions in 2025-26

Table 6: Total intake in Diploma and minimum required admissions in 2025-26

3.1.2 Courses with 10+2 (Non Medical) Eligibility

There are many courses running in the Institute whose basic eligibility is 10+2 (NM) i.e. Tech, Diploma (LEET), D. Pharma, B. Pharma, B.Sc (RMIT), B.Sc (NM), B. Sc (Bio tech.), B.Sc (MLS), B.Sc (Agriculture), B. Sc (Cardiac), B. Sc (Respiratory), B. Sc (Anesthesia), B. Sc (Dialysis) etc. The B.Sc (NM), B. Sc (Bio tech.), B. Sc (Agriculture) are selected in the category A (shown in table 7) and admissions required for these three in totality is around 100. The courses with same eligibility can create internal competition within the Institute. It is analyzed from various sources that number of students opted for Non medical in 10+1 and 10+2 is continuously decreasing from last few years.

Moreover, it is not an easy task to distribute each course of category B in area wise individually so we tried to combined some courses of category B and distribute in different areas shown in table 15 & 16.

For admission through Lateral Entry (LEET) in category B courses i.e. B. Sc (Anesthesia), B. Sc (Dialysis), B. Sc (Cardiac Care), B. Sc (Respiratory Care), B. Sc (RMIT), B.Sc (MLS), B. Sc OTT, basic eligibility is diploma in same course, but some course can also take students with 10+2 (Voc.) in MLS/MLT, D. Pharmacy etc. Moreover, it is also found that diploma in same field are not easily available so it may be a tough task to fill LEET seats of category B.

Table 9: Category B (Hide & seek courses)

3.3 Category C (Hot Cake Courses)

The courses under category C is considered as hot cake courses. Hot cake courses are those courses which are in demand and students themselves approach the Institutes for admissions. More than 90 to 95% seats are filled in these courses. The interested students may come from any part within 70 km or outside 70 km. So admission teams are not required to put much effort to attract these students. It is expected to fill more than 70% available seats without much effort. The only efforts required in this category are awareness about the courses in local area. So these courses are not possible to distribute according to different areas. Table 10 shows courses in Category C.

Figure 1: Areas covered under radius of 70 km from Institute

Table 12: Area wise distance from Institute within 70 km radius

Table 16: Distance wise (12 to 23) admission target for Category B courses

In table 17, proposed area wise target of all courses under category A & B is mentioned. The courses under C are in demand and students themselves approach the Institutes for admissions. The interested students may come from any part within 70 km or outside 70 km. So admission teams are not required to put many efforts to attract these students. It is expected to fill more than 70% available seats without much effort. There is also not required to put efforts for category D courses. Table 17 shows that Nabha team will fill minimum 66 students in courses under Category A, 10 students in Category B and no limit for students in category C & D and so on.

Table 17: Proposed area wise target of all categories

Table 21 shows that the demand of UG courses and diploma is improved from last 2 years at all India level but in Punjab it is still decreasing from last few years. It also shows that the demand for other PG courses is still decreasing continuously at all levels.

Table 21: Approved intake and enrollment in courses

6. Observation

The author worked at various senior positions in reputed Institutes of Punjab since 20 years and monitoring the admission scenario very closely. From last 6-7 years, it is found that the admission process especially in technical institutes is totally changed. Special teams have been constituted by Institutes not only to cover local areas, but also to cover other states and contact International students. The Institutes heavily invested to stay alive in market.

The Institute teams must focus on some following important parameters.

1. Institute needs to understand the importance of local market and required to design marketing strategy to cover 70 km of local area and ensure to cover each school, college, tuition centers, villages, etc. within 70 km radius.
2. Regularly update list of schools covering 70 km radius around the Institute. More than 75% of the total admissions are required to come from area within 70 km range.
3. The list includes all government and Private schools of both PSEB, CBSE teaching upto 10^th & 10+2 level.
4. Regularly update list of teaching staff involved in especially with Science, Maths, Vocational, ITI, Principals, and other influential members related with Schools.
5. Also cover other states and countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Sudan etc., but the dependency on outside areas need to be reduced.

The courses under category C is considered as hot cake courses which are in demand and students themselves approach the Institutes for admissions. The interested students may come from any part within 70 km or outside 70 km. So admission teams are not required to put much effort to attract these students.

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