While in CAT 2016 all the top 20 candidates were male and engineers, this year the top 20 list contains two female candidates and three non-engineers, IIM lucknow said in an email. IIM-lucknow was the coordinator for CAT 2017. IIM-lucknow declined to give further details on the demographic profile of successful candidates.

Twenty of the 1.9 lakh candidates who took CAT 2017 — for entry into premier IIMs — have made it to the elite club of 100 percentilers this year.

Unlike last year, when boys dominated the list, this year two girls and three non-engineers bagged the perfect score. It is probably the first time that non-engineers have cracked the exam with a 100 percentile.

In India, both management and engineering career are stable because of which there will always be a confusion for what to go for, MBA or MTech. The present trend shows that most people prefer to have an MBA degree rather than having an MTech degree after BTech. With this change, we can say that opportunities are less and demands of jobs are high. Every year youth gives exams for various entrance exams to get into the colleges, but why most youths choose MBA after doing BTech and not MTech. It has been a trend of getting a BTech degree after the schooling and therefore the population of youth having a BTech degree is very high as compare to other bachelor degrees.

In Youth4Work platform, there are 6.5 lakh job-seeker with BTech degree out of 17.1 lakh which is a huge number as compared to other degree holders.

The past decade has seen a rise in the population of youth holding the BTech degree which adds to the talent pool, but the same eulogy can’t be repeated for the jobs available for these graduates, as the growth rate in engineering jobs has been stagnant. Due to which many youths go for the higher studies. At that point, an important decision has to be made whether to take MBA or MTech.