There are as many as 4000 engineering colleges in India out of which 3000 are private colleges. Out of these colleges around 8lakh students are being graduated every year. These graduates belong to all departments of engineering like mechanical, electrical, IT etc., Considering the number of students going for higher studies in INDIA as well as abroad an average of 3 lakh students are entering into the jobs every year.

The point of discussion here is even though there are graduates from many departments why are majority of engineers trying to enter into the IT industry? When we search for reasons we can sort the following as major ones: Easy Growth, Hi-Fi culture, Onsight offers. But all these reasons are heard from the graduates but not from any intellectual in the industry. Many a number of students from non IT departments are not even aware of the job opportunities they had in their core field.

The students will be trained and mastered in the course for as long as 4 years. After all the efforts by the students as well as the staff the student will be completing his graduation in the specialization. But by the end of 4 years an IT company will recruit them irrespective of their specialization and all the valuable time spent to train them is gone in vain. Why is this happening? They are mastered in a different course and now they have to work on completely new thing. When will they define their destiny in this new field? What happened to the valuable 4 years in their life? What about all the work they learned in that time? Is it not useful at all?

When we give a thought about where the things are going wrong we all will come to one strong conclusion that is lack of knowledge in students before joining in the course. Students are given enough freedom by their parent to select their field of interest but are not furnished with enough information to decide on the field.  The students are to be given appropriate information about the choices they have in the industry, and then they should be left for deciding. Giving enough freedom will be a curse if they are not good enough to take appropriate decisions.

Even colleges can play a major role in helping the students. They are the best guides in that period of a student life. They will have 4 years of time to mould a student. They have to spend time on making student to realize the opportunities for them in their specialization. The system should also permit the students to change their course at any time in the first two years by completing the required credits. It is never late to realize, and they should be given a chance to act upon realization.

I want to make an appeal to everyone, “Never guide a student vaguely like join any course and you can enter the IT industry. Improve the standards of the industry. You may be stealing a scientist or a noble laureate by guiding vaguely. We need new inventions and we are capable of them. We can explore all the fields. Why should we always stay as supporters to someone’s inventions? Let us make them.”