Growing craze for Chatered Accountancy course among MPC students is likely to bleed engineering colleges further. With many students opting for CA, the demand for engineering seats will go down this academic year and number of seats are likely to remain vacant. Already engineering colleges in the states are faced with lot of crisis situation as the total available seats outnumber the qualified students . Managements of engineering colleges fear that students who have qualified in Eamcet may prefer CA to engineering . The state has witnessed a spurt in CA coaching centres of late. 

Rough estimates point out that about 20,000 MPC students who have qualified in eamcet may go for CA course . The state has about 3.5 lakhs engineering seats but only 2.30 lakhs students have qualified in eamcet.  About 27,000 failed to pass the intermediate and thus the effective strength of candidates available for engineering counselling is only 2.03 lakhs. This will  go further down if the number of students who opt for IIT's and NIT's is taken into consideration. The diversion of MPC students to CA stream will make the matters worse for engineering colleges. 

Every student count for us . The diversion of MPC students to CA will have deterimental effect on our survival said the chairman of a private engineering college .  The management of engineering colleges feel that the aggressive compaign launched by CA  institutes with specific focus on MPC students has changed the trend. While the CA coaching institutes are found packed with students , the engineering colleges are virtually searching for aspirants. 

The engineering colleges particularly in Krishna, Guntur, and Prakasam are faced with tough time due to the strong imprint of the CA coaching institute in the region  . It will be really very difficult phase for about 10 % of the new colleges  as they are struggling to get both the students and faculty said M Koteshwar Rao.