Rush of admission seekers await the reputed colleges in the capital and elsewhere in the country.

While the top ranking colleges cannot admit many of the students, the other colleges face shortage of learners, said education officials.

In Class XI, the colleges across the country offer 19.60 lakh seats though not all the 14.53 lakh students who passed the SSC and equivalent exams would seek admission.

Just as in the previous years, this year too seats in the reputed colleges would remain elusive to many of the best grade achievers in the Secondary School Certificate Examination.

In the current year, 96,769 students achieved Grade Point Average 5, the top grade.

Another 3.62 lakh students achieved GPA 4 from eight education boards.
Dhaka education board officials said that that the capital’s 25 reputed colleges offer 35,000 seats to students seeking admission to Class XI.

The top grade achievers from the outlying districts also prefer taking admission in the capital’s reputed colleges, said Dhaka Board’s inspector of colleges Ashfaqus Salehin.

The world wide reality is students keen to get enrolled in reputed colleges face stiff competition, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid told reporters after chairing a meeting for putting in place the admission guidelines for the college authorities.

He said that the admission seekers had no reason to worry as the colleges across the country offer seats in excess of the demand.

Such stiff competition for getting admitted to the capital’s reputed colleges is not at all unusual considering the fact that 40,800 pupils achieved GPA 5 and another 1.25 lakhs achieved GPA 4 from the Dhaka board alone.

Ashfaqus Salehin said that many seats would remain vacant in less known as well as the new colleges across the country.

He said that 4,500 colleges across the country offer 19.60 lakh seats in Class XI.

According to the declared results 14.53 lakh students passed the SSC and equivalent exams this year.

From May 26 to June 6 forms for admission to Class XI would be distributed.
The enrollments would take place on the basis of the results from June 18 to June 30.

Education boards would decided the college in which a student would get admission from a list of ten colleges earmarked by the learner.