High demand for computers with pure sciences

HYDERABAD, June 30: The combination of computer science and pure science courses is selling like hot cakes and this can be seen in the fact that nearly half of the total degree colleges in the State either want to start a section with these subjects or have an additional section to the existing one.

Colleges want to offer the computer science course in both the science stream as well as the commerce stream though the craze differs from one University to another.

If the craze for Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) course is seen more in the Acharya Nagarjuna University and Sri Venkateshwara University areas, colleges under the Osmania University prefer the course under the B.Com (Computer Sciences) stream.

Demand in districts

The OU-area colleges have also evinced keen interest in the combination with emerging areas like Micro Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

About 112 applications have been received in this area.

“Nearly 50 colleges under the SVU and ANU jurisdiction want to start the BCA course and these include colleges that have earlier discontinued the course due to lack of student support,” an official in the A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) said.

Out of the 1,175 degree colleges in the state, around 480 have applied for new courses this year and most of them have offered to start computer and pure science related courses.
There is also a lot of demand for Hotel Management and Catering courses, particularly in the districts. Earlier, these courses were popular in Metros only.

About 90 per cent of the requests from the existing colleges are likely to be accepted what with the respective universities having completed their inspections.Flexibility

Unlike the popular belief that humanities courses are disappearing from degree colleges, with overemphasis on science and computer courses, several colleges have applied to start courses in
Modern Languages, Psychology, Economics and Public Administration.

Officials attribute this growing intrest in these courses to the growth in the literacy rate and the increasing job opportunities coming up for students of humanities in the new economy.

The flexibility offered at the Post Graduate level for this stream seems to be another reason.
(Source : The Hindu)