Student enrollments in Computer Engineering has gone up by nearly 38 per cent in the past three years as the number increased from 9.3 lakh in 2019-20 to 12 lakh in 2021-22, a recent government survey revealed.

According to the latest report of the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), released by the Education Ministry Thursday night, the top five sub-streams of engineering and technology as per enrollment are Computer Engineering (CE), Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

As per the data, among the top 5 substreams of engineering, it is only Computer Engineering (CE) and Electrical Engineering (EE) that saw an increase in enrollments (38.82 per cent and 1.44 per cent respectively).

Other than that, other sub-streams such as ME, Electronics Engineering and Civil Engineering saw a dip of 15.45  per cent, 0.81 per cent and 3.31 per cent, respectively.

In the engineering domain in 2021-22, with the highest number of enrollments was CE with 12.9 lakh enrollments, followed by Electronics Engineering with 6 lakh enrollments, Mechanical Engineering with 5.74 lakh enrollments, Civil Engineering with 4.64 lakh enrollments and Electrical Engineering is the fifth most popular sub-stream with 3.75 lakh enrollments.

Last year too, the highest enrollments were in Computer engineering. However, this time it is Mechanical Engineering, Electronics engineering, Civil engineering, Electrical engineering etc.

Also, this time, for Engineering and Technology, overall enrolment in all UG, PG, MPhil and PhD levels is 41,31,303, which is a rise of nearly 5 per cent from last year’s 39,20,213.

Additionally, in the Science stream, a total of 57,18,185 students are enrolled in Science at UG, PG, MPhil, PhD levels with 52.1 per cent female. At UG level, the enrollment is 49,18,425 with 50.8 per cent female. There are 7,52,807 students enrolled at PG level, with 61.2 per cent females. At PhD level, enrollment in Science is 45,324 students with more than 50 per cent female students.

The enrollment in STEM (at UG, PG, MPhil and PhD levels) is 98,49,488, out of which 56,56,488 are men and 41,93,000 are women, the recent government survey revealed. Last year, there were 94,69,022 enrollments in STEM, out of which 53,74,237 (56.8 per cent) were males and 40,94,785 (43.2 per cent) female.