India has over 3300 Engineering colleges and 700+ Medical colleges. There are about 18 lac seats in Engineering colleges of which half of them go vacant every year and only about 80,000 seats are in A-grade colleges. About 20 lacs Engg. aspirants vie for these seats every year. As far as MBBS is concerned, there are over 1 lac MBBS seats of which about 40% are in Govt. Medical Colleges and the rest in Private colleges. There are usually no vacancies in MBBS seats. Over 24 lacs Medical aspirants vie for these seats every year and appear for the NEET exam.