When will CUSAT Kochi be converted into an IIEST? It will be a boon for CUSAT.

There are several rumors about CUSAT being an IIEST in the future, having theories both supporting and opposing the statement. But, it is expected that CUSAT will never be IIEST. Some reasons opposing the statement are listed below.

• There are several political forces involved in admission to the institute. If it becomes IIEST in the future, the admission procedure will entirely change, considered JEE Mains as the only form of admission for B.Tech students. So, local reservation criteria and other sorts would get neglected by this, and the level of competition would rise drastically.
• Kerala is a small state and three national-level institutes like IIT, NIT, and IIEST in such a small region is not expected to be established.
• The central government has proposed three colleges for becoming IIEST- Shibpur BESU, Anna University, and CUSAT. Out of the three, only Shibpur has accepted the proposal and is now IIEST. The rest two have put the request in their pending list. This makes it almost impossible to transform.

Considering the above factors, it can be concluded that CUSAT is not going to be an IIEST in the near future. The talk of its conversion has been going on for a long, especially during the time of admission and entrances, but it’s still unprocessed and unexpected.