The month of March brings in a lot of anxiety and stress in the lives of students. This is especially true for 10th and 12th graders who are under lot of pressure since they would be appearing for their board exams. These years are very crucial for the students since it lays the foundation of their future.
Getting good grades in exams is one thing but choosing the right career path is another thing. Choosing the career of your choice becomes very important and that is primary reason why both parents & students are equally worried about choosing the right career.
In today’s fast-changing times, career choice is not restricted to mainstream as it used to be in good old days. There are lot of career options available (some conventional and some un-conventional). A child can choose stream of his/her own choice, be it medical, engineering, arts, visual media, graphic designing, hotel management etc. In fact with the rise of Digital Media, many kids also opt for becoming stand-up comedians, YouTube stars etc. I know many of them who are still in school and do gadget reviews on YouTube. With so many career choices available, your question would be which is the “most preferred” career option? Well, the answer is “Engineering” still tops the list!!
Opting for a career choice is one part whereas achieving/chasing that dream is another part of the game. Getting into the engineering college of your choice is still a very daunting task. The 12th grader needs to appear for the CET exam than (s)he gets to choose a college based on the CET score. The choice of college is the most crucial task. If a kid is staying in Mumbai, parents would always prefer that (s)he takes admission in engineering college based out of Mumbai. However, in current hyper-competitive environment it is important that kids also explore college(s) suitable for them outside the residing city!!!
When I wanted to choose an engineering college in Mumbai, I was clueless about which college is right for me since only information that I had was about courses offered by college, placement information etc. (remember this was way back in 2002 :)). Though I mentioned about 2002, the same scenario still exists in 2016. Kids and parents are equally clueless about which colleges to choose, fee structure, accommodation etc. A very good friend of mine who is from Nagpur has a son who wanted to pursue his career in engineering. Being the only child, my friend wanted his son to study in Nagpur.
Though there are so many resources (that give information about colleges, college reviews) available on the internet but major part of that information is scattered across multiple websites. Also, there is no guarantee whether the information mentioned on the website is legitimate. We tried to source information about engineering colleges in Nagpur by asking relatives, mutual friends etc. but it did not work beyond a certain point. When we hit the road-block, we decided to check back on the internet.
To our surprise, we found a “Single point Solution” to our problem and the solution is CollegeDunia – extensive search engine for the students, parents, and education industry players who are looking out for information about higher education in India or abroad. For parents, CollegeDunia offers a filter page that can rank colleges based on criteria like Fees, Cut-off percentage etc. When I informed my friend about the site, he quickly latched on to the opportunity to check the site and he just took few minutes to decide that his search for the top engineering colleges in Nagpur would be finally fulfilled on CollegeDunia. The very fact that it is extensive listing portal with information of more than 10000 colleges in India with in-depth information about entrance exams , events , college festivals etc increased my friend’s confidence in the portal 🙂
We tried to shortlist certain colleges in Nagpur after having a brief discussion with his son. We were looking out for colleges with best rating (along with keeping a watchful eye on the fees). Some of the colleges that made it to our shortlist bucket were:
- Visvesaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Rating : 8.5/10)
- ITM College of Engineering, Nagpur (Rating : 6.6/10)
- Shri Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (Rating : 6.1/10)
- Karmavir Dadasaheb Kannamwar College of Engineering, Nagpur (Rating : 5.2/10)
- St Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur (Rating : 5.2/10)
We were finally bit relaxed that we were able to shortlist the colleges but shortlisting colleges was job-half done. Out of the top 3 colleges, there was debate between the selecting either the first or second in our list. As kids, we always wanted that “quality education” is well-balanced with “extra-curricular activities” and the same thought also revolved in my friend’s son’s mind. There were frequent debates about the choices and after a brief period of two weeks we finally zeroed in on “Visvesaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur”.
With the shortlist done from our side, it was time to apply for admission in that college. With information obtained from CollegeDunia, his son was finally able to take first step in fulfilling his dream – “To become an engineer” !! It has been more than two years since his son secured admission in the college and now he is more of a (self appointed) evangelist 🙂 for CollegeDunia who wants that his friends/relatives who aspire to be engineers make “Wise & Smart career choices” by using the CollegeDunia platform!!!