Placement Brochure Academic Session 2016-17 INDIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY VISAKHAPATNAM CAMPUS (A CENTRAL UNIVERSITY)Indian Maritime University, Visakhapatnam CampusWe are in the news... Maritime varsity Chennai campus among top-ranked Jayaraj Shan 3timesg/oup.com (Chennai: Indian Maritime University. Vis patnam, is dve top-ranked institute in the. Uy as per the firstever ranking system duced by the IMU, headquartered int ‘The five IMU campuses and three alli institutes figure among the top eight institute: asper the rank listreleasedon Monday TheIMU campus Kolkata, issecond, Anglo A cademy.an affiiat nirdand the IMU Chennai campus cighthon the hist. “The ranking is done hased on a range of quantifiable objective parameters like marks obtained by students for science and mathemat ics in their Plus 2 examinations, alHndia com. mon entrance test ranks of students wh each institute, academic performarice of dents, percentage of passes and per: first classes and distinctions,” said IMU chancellor K Ashok Vardhan Sheaty. “This willbeanannual feature hereafterand will be released every August. We give weight age to the number of courses offered by insti tutes, students admitted. and number of girls and SC/ST students admitted,” said Shetry In comparison, Anna University: Chennai, ranks its affiliated enginceringcollegesonly on thebasisod percentage of passes in theuniversi ty examinations, be said Of the 3M alfiliatedd maritime institutes. nine centres that failed to admit even a single student in the August 2016 hatch were omitted from the ranking system, said Shetty ‘The IMU, started in 2008 when the global economy was having a dream run, was in news during its initial days for all wrong reasons ‘There was a Gime when the university did not havea VC, registrar, controller of examinations and finance cfficer. No convoration was held for thefirst fieyears, Shetty curnedamund thefor- tunes of the university after he took aver therm ins about 0 months ago. Recruitments that should have been done in the first two years of the varsity were done in its 7th and fth year of Indian Maritime University campus, Chennai STUDENT ADMISSIONS 201-12 1353 234 201213 735 1228 20314 82 102 201415 740 1198 2015-16 ae ums 2016-17 28 1540 > IMU Vizag top ranked maritime institute in India existence. Its voyage continues tobebatterd by the impact of the global meltdown Admissions wo various maritime insticutes havebeen hadly hit as placement soene for Ini an sea farers hasnotheen bright in recent years. Availability of cheaper seafarers from Philip. pines, China, Bangladesh, Ukraine and Croatia and mushrooming o€ poor quality maritime in- stitutes in India are had news for the industry: While there were 1.381 admissions in IMU cam. puses and 2289admissions in the aMiliated col Jeges in 30820, they dropped to 68 and 1.580 re spectively in 30617. The good news for the five IMU campuses is that after dropping to an all ume low of 720 students in 201415, the numbers are increasing But the slide in affiliated colleg- fscontinues,