New Delhi: As many as 31 students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, are reported to have dropped out from the premier college in the current year, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) claimed Monday.
As per records of the ministry, among the eight new IITs which were launched in 2008, IIT-Hyderabad, reported the maximum number of dropouts (60) while IIT Bhubaneswar reported a total dropout of 31 postgraduate and PhD students.
The ministry Monday claimed that students drop out midway because most students are looking for some fruitful career. Union minister of state for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey said, “The main reason for PhD and postgraduate students leaving the courses midway are due to offers of placement in Public Sector Enterprises, and personal preferences for better opportunities elsewhere. The dropout in undergraduate programmes is attributed to wrong course choice selected during admissions, poor performance and personal reasons.”
As per information furnished by the ministry, not a single student from IIT-Bhubaneswar quit studies at the Under-Graduate (UG) level while 16 PG students and 15 PhD students dropped out from the institute in the current academic year.
Eight new IITs – in Bhubaneswar, Patna, Gandhinagar, Ropar, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Indore and Mandi – were set up after 2008 as the HRD ministry made efforts to raise seats in IITs by opening new centres.
When it comes to IITs across the country, a total of 889 students dropped out from various programmes, which include 630 in postgraduate, 196 in PhD and 63 in undergraduate levels, the ministry said Monday.
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