Students prefer office management course over engineering diploma

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 6

The diploma in office management remains a preferred choice for students as all seats of the course have been filled at Government Polytechnic College for Girls, while only one-fourth of the seats in the rest of the courses, including computer science, were filled after the first counselling that concluded today.

The institute offers 60 seats in diploma courses in computer science, fashion design, electronics and communication engineering, garment manufacturing technology, information technology apart from 30 seats in modern office practices for office management.

The qualification for the courses is Class X and preference is given to students who have cleared JET. For modern office practices, the qualification is Class XII. Nearly 15 seats have been filled in most of the courses, while all 30 seats have been filled in modern offices practices diploma at the end of the first counselling.

Officials at the institute said nearly 30 students had chosen to take admission here in the online counselling, and only about half of them came for admission.

Passouts of modern office practices course are able to secure jobs as stenographer, personal assistant etc and is the most sought after course at the institute instead of engineering course, a teacher at the institute said.

Shaukat Ali Khan, a computer science faculty member at the institute, said the seats that remained vacant would be filled after the second counselling.

If these were not filled after counseling, the remaining seats would be filled without the JET score, he said.