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Deciding which college to join and which course to take is an important decision in one’s life. In this article, we discuss how not to choose a college.

In South India, parents want their children to study either Engineering or Medicine. In North , there is a tough competition for getting admission to arts, science and humanities. This implies that both Engineering , Medicine as well as Arts, Science and Humanities are equally good.

Most of the parents as well as School teachers advice their children to decide based only on perception. Similarly students decide their stream, college and branch purely based on what others will feel about them.

Many students who pursue Engineering want to join an IT company in the future. In reality IT is going through a difficult phase with many job cuts across the globe as well as in India. Also the question is for doing Coding why does one need Engineering ? Is there a job guarantee in IT .. The answer is NO in most of the Companies..

Students who are interested in Core Engineering subjects like automobile, mechanical , Electrical or Civil should only choose Engineering.

While deciding the colleges a detailed analysis is required. There are rankings given by NIRFhttps://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2025/CollegeRanking.html, NAAC which gives some idea about a particular Engineering college.

Beyond this there are excellent rankings published by India today on colleges. In the India today rankings https://bestcolleges.indiatoday.in/there are options to compare 4 colleges which is very exhaustive. It even analyses the no. of professors, associate professors , staff colleges have. However these details cover the college from a holistic perspective.

A particular branch or Department in a college can be far superior to the same branch in many other colleges. This will not get reflected in these rankings. This will get revealed only based on discussion with the college authorities , understanding the background of the college, their facilities for that department as well as discussion with students of that branch.

We advice students, teachers and parents to decide the college and branch based on the individual strength of the students, their comfort level in studying the particular branch. Also after detailed analysis on the pros and cons of the decision from short term and long term perspective and not to choose a college only based on what others say.