Personalized College Recommender and Cutoff Predictor for Direct Second Year Engineering

In Maharashtra there are around 342 polytechnics providing 110 engineering courses wherein throughout every year approximately 90,000 to 1.5 lakhs students pass out. In addition, there are only 338 engineering colleges that provide Direct Second Year Engineering (DSE) admissions for B.E and B.Tech studies. However, the engineering admission process is hectic and more than that is to find the college according to student preference i.e stream, location, university and seat type, etc. During the admission process the students always need to check the previous years cutoff of each college by visiting numerous websites & pdf lists which certainly consumes a lot of time. In our web application we will provide cutoff prediction of each college by the data-analysis of previous years cutoff, recommendation system for colleges listing according to student preferences, furthermore providing detailed comparison between institutions of their choice. The application is developed to bestow a personalized system so as to reduce time and ease the student’s college selection process.