More qualifications, fewer seats: Girls lag behind boys in Telangana engineering admissions

As per the TG EAPCET 2025 first phase seat allotment, there is a gap of over 8 percent between boys and girls, with girls securing fewer seats despite securing over one percentage higher qualifications than boys in the entrance test

Hyderabad: Girls have outperformed boys in the Telangana Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (TG EAPCET) 2025. However, when it comes to engineering admissions, more boys than girls have bagged seats in counselling.

As per the first phase seat allotment released on Friday, there was a gap of over 8 per cent between boys and girls, with girls securing fewer seats despite securing over one percentage point higher qualifications than boys in the entrance test. Of the 77,561 students who got engineering seat allotment, 41,924 (54.1 per cent) were boys, while 35,637 (45.9 per cent) were girls.

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Further, an analysis of the admissions reveals that in the last six years, the popularity of undergraduate engineering programmes among students and parents has been on the rise. This was evident from the number of admissions during that period.

Statistics show that students opting for engineering admissions have gone up by a record 31,427 in the last six years. While only 46,134 students enrolled in 2019, the TG EAPCET 2025 first-phase web-based counselling itself saw 77,561 seats being allocated in various engineering branches.

In the past, not even 60 per cent of the total seats were filled. However, this time around, 93.39 per cent out of 83,054 seats have already been allocated in the first phase, leaving only 5,493 seats vacant.

One of the main reasons for the rise in undergraduate engineering admissions is attributed to the growth of emerging technologies and career opportunities in the IT sector. This has led to increased demand for skilled professionals in areas like artificial intelligence, data science and cybersecurity.

In tune with this demand, engineering colleges — both university and private — started offering courses in emerging technologies such as AI & ML, cybersecurity, data science and Internet of Things.

This apart, in the past, several private engineering colleges converted seats in core engineering branches like Civil and Mechanical to CSE due to huge demand from students and parents.

Over the past six years, 17,489 new seats have been added under the convenor quota. In 2019, there were only 65,000 convenor quota seats, which has now increased to 83,054 this academic year.
Engineering convenor quota admissions

Year	Colleges	Total Seats Filled	Increase in admissions
2019	183	65,565	—–
2020	181	70,135	1,605
2021	175	79,822	9,806
2022	177	62,170	4,625
2023	174	70,689	8,519
2024	175	75,107	4,418
2025	172	77,561	2,454