There was time when doing a BSc was considered nothing less then suicidal for your career, especially in a city like Bombay, where almost every one applies for Engineering followed by medicine. So the best and the brightest go on to become a generally a Comps or an Electronics engineer on one side and Medicine on the other and the not so supposedly good do BSc. The story with the commerce guys was different as almost all of them did BCom, till BMM/BBA became hotter, here we would basically deal with the science guys.

Is it still the same? Not necessarily, there has been a great shift in terms of career choices in the last 5 years and this has surely given some breathing space to people who wished to be different or who couldn't make the cut in the first attempt for some reason or the other and didn't want to waste time by trying some unpredictable things like appearing for entrance tests year after year. All in all there is life after graduation even if you are not an Engineer or a Doctor. The paradigm shift came in when BPO became hot, they needed hundreds of thousands of good people, but the engineers just wont join in as they considered it below their merit to join a BPO. The plain graduates seized this opportunity and now constitute the major chunk of the BPO industry.

The second major shift came due to two important events, one was that our universities finally showed some innovative streak and introduced some career oriented courses like BSC-IT/BSc(Computer Science)/BCA etc and second was the huge shortage of manpower by the IT industry. This prompted recruitment of BSc degree holders from many streams by the largest of the IT companies on a test basis. Soon the companies who snubbed at the idea of recruiting anyone except engineers from the top colleges were seen queuing outside the colleges to recruit BSc's form any stream related to Mathematics. This doesn't mean that they had to compromise on quality, because that's of prime important for a company catering to the world.