Vijayawada: 

Thinking of a secure career, students have always been opting for the time-honoured courses like engineering, medicine, management and law. Of late, the trend seems to be changing as the students are opting for unconventional courses like fashion designing, textile technology, hotel management and many other courses that are available in the city.

Many colleges have come up offering courses in fashion designing and hotel management in the last two years in the city which are roping in a good number of students from the city and even other parts of the district.

Among these courses, fashion designing course is an important and most-opted course by the students where even the engineering and management graduates are choosing this course as job opportunities in their streams are considerably less.

There are as many as four fashion technology colleges in the city offering bachelor of sciences, diploma and PG diploma in many fashion designing-related courses. A PG Diploma student P. Saritha of Samana Institute of Fashion Technology and also a team member of the movie Kevvukeka costume designing crew, said that she has opted for this course out of interest and there is a lot of scope for career in the field. She said, one can produce their own products and women can come up as entrepreneurs from this field.

P. Nilima, another fashion designing student who hails from Machilipatnam, said this is not just an alternative career but is one of the ongoing courses that has good placements and a vast number of job oppurtunities all over the country. One who cannot stay away in Hyderabad or such cities can reside in Vijayawda as the colleges here are even capable of referring students to the film industry, which is one of the biggest gateways for fashion graduates.

Samana Moosavi, CEO of SIFT, said 40 per cent of the students in their college are from engineering and management backgrounds who opt for one year PG diploma so that they can step into fashion industry where plenty of oppurtunities are available, unlike in the engineering and management streams.

N. Malla Reddy, a teaching faculty in a hotel management college, said that students from rural areas are also very much keen to join such courses as placement oppurtunities are vast in this field.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> News> Current Affairs / DC / by  B. Tharun Kumar / April 07th, 2013