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VISAKHAPATNAM: The economic slowdown that has hit the IT and other industries has its repercussion on the IT education also.

Since the time the slowdown started having its effect, it was felt that the IT branch would lose its most-sought-after-branch status, and this has come true when the private sector GITAM University, first to commence admissions in the State, started admitting students. The preference of students, and also their parents, showed that the basic engineering branches are being trusted again.

Its website shows that as many as 148 out of the 300 seats at its Visakhapatnam main campus and 28 out of 60 seats in its Hyderabad campus in the IT branch are still vacant.

Inquiries with the students who got admitted in GITAM University revealed that while IT had lost its sheen, basic engineering branches like mechanical and civil are being preferred.

One student who joined GITAM said he found mechanical branch the best option. Incidentally all the seats in the mechanical branch filled up quickly. Those who did not get a seat in this branch, went for civil engineering branch and computer science branch came third.

Biotechnology and pharmacy have gained popularity during the last few years but seats in these two branches are also still available at GITAM University.

Many seats, in the IT branch and some seats in the biotechnology branch and pharmacy course, lying vacant in GITAM University, is certainly an indicator to the admissions to be done soon into engineering colleges affiliated to JNTU and State universities based on the ranks obtained in the Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test 2009.