The Telangana State Postgraduate Engineering Common Entrance Test (TS-PGECET) results that were declared here on Thursday saw 88.27% of students qualifying the exam held for 19 streams.
The exam was conducted for admission into M.Tech, M.Arch and M.Pharm courses and graduate-level Pharm-D course. TSCHE Chairman T. Papi Reddy, who released the results along with Osmania University Vice-Chancellor S. Ramchandram, TSCHE Vice-Chairman Limbadri; TSCHE Secretary Srinivas Rao; PGECET Convenor M. Kumar and Co-convenor V. Uma Maheshwar said a total of 20,415 candidates had registered for the entrance test and 17,722 students appeared for the exams. Among these, 15,644 have qualified.
Prof. Reddy said last year, 8,967 seats were available of which 7,185 were filled in various colleges.
Among these, 4,898 were in the engineering stream and 2,089 in the M.Pharm stream. Seats this year would be more or less the same. He said seats in streams such as computer science, civil, mechanical, electrical, bio-medical and pharmacy streams were almost full last year.
Prof. Ramchandram said mining engineering and textile engineering were also included this year in the entrance owing to the increasing demand for the streams.
OU College of Engineering would offer M.Tech in Mining from this year. A good number of GATE candidates have also been applying for PG courses and this year, 1,655 GATE candidates have already submitted their applications for admission.
