Commerce, BCA courses are in great demand

Mangaluru: Autonomous colleges and deemed universities in the city are witnessing a rush for admissions and course enquiries, just a couple of days after announcement of PU results.
These institutions, which adjusted their academic calendar to post-Covid days, are seeing long lines for admissions, even during public holidays. According to colleges, commerce is the first preference, followed by BCA and science. These colleges made tentative admissions soon after the completion of the PU exams.
A senior official from St Aloysius (deemed to be university) said that even before the announcement of results, they received close to 1,500 applications for various undergraduate courses. "As a deemed university, we are flexible to introduce new courses. We have now introduced embedded and integrated courses in commerce, BBA, and science streams. For example, BCom courses have business analytics, ACCA, and CA. In BBA, there is business analytics, branding and advertising, and ERP. We have a good response compared to previous years, with students from other states and NRIs applying for various courses," the official added.
Stressing particularly on BCA, the official said that currently, there are five batches, and received 1,000 applications to date, while available seats are 400. The applications will further increase once PU results in Kerala and CBSE are announced, according to the official.
The scene is similar at the newly announced autonomous colleges. At Alva's College, Moodbidri, the highest demand is for commerce and BCA. Vivek Alva, managing trustee of Alva's Education Foundation, said computer science-related course BCA continues to be in demand this year as well, and commerce demand is high as usual. It is followed by BBA and science. "BCA course seats are almost full now," Alva said. At another autonomous college St Philomena College, Puttur, there is a slight demand for humanities courses as well, apart from BCom and BCA, said Fr Antony Prakash Monteiro. At SDM College, Ujire, the highest demand is for BCA, followed by commerce courses, said college principal Vishwanath P.
The autonomous and deemed universities are likely to commence their classes in June.
Meanwhile, the other UG colleges under Mangalore University, whose academic calendar of events is not adjusted to pre-Covid days, have to wait to start their classes. "However, we started the admission process and are issuing applications. Due to the delay in the start of classes, we don't want to lose candidates," said the principal of a govt first-grade college in the city.