Second Phase Counseling for ECET, EAMCET, ICET, EDCET, PGECET 2011 and Seat Allotments

1) EAMCET 2011 Second Phase Counseling: Eamcet 2011 Second Phase counseling for Engineering and Pharmacy Courses will be conducted during September 2011. The dates of second phase web counseling if any will be announced after the release results / seat allotments of first phase. EAMCET 2011 Engineering and B.Pharmacy Seat allotments for First Phase of Counseling will be announced on 14th August 2011 after 6 PM. The results will be displayed on apeamcet.nic.in. SMS also will be sent to the mobile numbers registered at the time of certificate verification. You need to enter Eamcet rank, hall ticket no, date of birth etc to download the allotment order. Candidates should pay the fee if applied in any branch of the Andhra Bank and Indian Bank.

2) ECET 2011 Second / Final Phase Counseling: Allotment Orders of ECET 2011 Second / Final phase candidates will be displayed on the website http://apecet.nic.in/default.aspx on 19th August 2011. You can download allotment order from the website. The Chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has announced that the 2nd phase and Final Phase counseling will start from 17th August 2011. Entry of web options also can be done on the same days and Seat Allotments will be announced on 19th August 2011. Candidates can download allotment order from http://apecet.nic.in/default.aspx . Those want to participate in ECET 2011 final phase counseling can attend for certificate verification on 17th and 18th at any Helpline centers. Thousands of candidates who qualified in ECET 2011 and did not join through first phase counseling are waiting for the second phase counseling notification. The notification has been announced and candidates can exercise web options on 17th and 18th August 2011. during 2nd / 3rd week of August 2011. The counseling notification will be displayed on www.jntuh.ac.in/ecet and candidates can apply online.

3) ICET 2011 Second Phase Counseling: First phase counseling notifications for ICET is yet to be released. ICET 2011 Web Counseling will start from 16th August 2011. The detailed notification with Rank wise Counseling Schedule will be announced very soon.

4) EDCET 2011 and PGECET 2011 Second Phase Counseling: First Phase Counseling Notifications and dates for these entrance tests are yet to be confirmed. The notification is likely to be released during third week / last week of August 2011.

5) LAWCET 2011 Second Phase Counseling Notification: Counseling notifications for first phase of seat allotments for LAWCET 2011 and PGLCET 2011 qualified candidates are likely to be released during August / September 2011. So, there will be so much time for Second Phase of Counseling for these examinations.

Selection of Good MBA and MCA College - ICET Counseling

With the ICET counseling round the corner, student anxieties are running high. Where will I get my dream MBA/MCA seat? Would it be in a college of my liking? Would it be closer home? What would be quality education provider? Will I have good student life there? Would the college offer me attractive placement? During the counseling, how do I exercise my option of selection of my dream MBA / MCA College? These are the questions crisscrossing the minds of nearly 1,40,000 students who have cleared the ICET 2011 test. Though the ICET test scores are the basis for MCA admissions too, it is the admissions for MBA which are hot, leaving MCA far behind.

The MBA and MCA Programs are terminal professional degrees. Both are highly placement oriented, market driven degree programs. Hence it is no wonder that the prospective students for these programs are in a dilemma on where to join for their career launching program.

What factors should students consider to ‘zeroing down’ on a college to launch themselves into a future of opportunities? Several factors such as reputation of the college, quality of faculty members, quality of current students, accreditation, college academic rigor, teaching methodology, past performance, infrastructure facilities, hostel facilities, placement orientation, successful alumni, etc. influence their decision making process. The key questions from a student’s perspective are –

1) What criteria should a prospective student look for to select a good MBA / MCA college?

2) What role does the school play in ensuring placement for the students?
A clear understanding of these factors and how they impact a student’s education and placement in a good school would help in wise decision making. Let us delve these factors.

Placement track record of the college and the quality and adequacy of the faculty members are the two important criteria for selection of a good college. Both these cannot be assessed objectively unless prospective students visit a campus and interact with the existing students of the college or the alumni who are already working. ‘Word of mouth’ and peer feedback are more valuable than published claims by promoters of the institutes either in print media or electronic media or on websites.

While the schools may communicate and reach out to the prospective students through promotion material and web-sites, it is also important for them to develop and engage communication channels through their existing students and their alumni for spreading a good word about the quality of faculty, academic delivery and placement focus. The tendency of a prospective student and parent is that of a customer review for buying a book, seeing a movie or downloading music. Today’s prospective students with an inclination and ability to identify broad information sources when making decisions have lot many options available to them.

ICET 2011 Counseling, Seats Allotment, Fee and Colleges

ICET 2011 Counseling for admission into MBA and MCA courses in Government and Private colleges in Andhra Pradesh will commence from 16th August 2011. The detailed schedule with notification in this regard will be issued very soon by Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). Verification of Certificates will start from 16th August 2011. The APSCHE is contemplating to start the exercise of options simultaneously with certificate verification. Detailed schedule will be updated here as soon as it is announced. You can obtain detailed schedule and login to www.icet2011.net for exercise of web options. Following are details MBA and MCA Colleges in the state, latest fee structure and issued to be considered while selecting colleges:

Fee Structure for MBA and MCA Courses for 2011-12

1) MBA / MCA under Convener Quota: Rs. 27000
2) MBA/ MVA fee for Management Quota: Rs. 78000

ICET 2010 Last Ranks / Cut Offs for various colleges can help you estimate your chances of seat in different colleges.

There are around 971 colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh offering 78,340 seats in the MBA Program. MCA Program is offered in 713 colleges with a total intake capacity of 50,148 seats. If we look at the aggregate of MBA and MCA seats, it would appear that every ICET qualified student would get into either MBA or the MCA Program. But the question is how to select a good MBA / MCA College?

The problem is not in the availability of some seat or the other. The core issues are – a large majority of the affiliated colleges of various universities do not have faculty members to delivery a minimum quality of education at higher degree level; a large number of them, barring a few, woefully lack the basic infrastructural facilities; most of them do not have well organised placement department, thus leaving the students to fend for themselves looking for a job and finally all these colleges do not have alumni network which is all important for management graduates. MCA Program faces other issues like the lab facilities for practice, cutting edge curriculum and advanced specializations.