Developing Innovative Online Counselling Solutions for Higher Secondary Students

The transition from upper secondary school to professional engineering programs is a significant and challenging phase for students, especially in competitive admissions processes like Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA). Despite the availability of online counseling portals, students often face difficulties due to fragmented information, static cut-off data, a lack of tailored advice, and a lack of analytical support, which leads to uncertainty and subpar decision-making. This study presents the design and implementation of an intelligent web-based Engineering Counseling Support Platform. This platform streamlines the TNEA counseling process by consolidating college information, course offerings, historical cut-off trends, and institutional facilities into a single interactive interface. The system increases accessibility, transparency, accessibility, and decision-making efficiency in the counseling process by providing tailored advise based on each student profile through the use of rule-based recommendations, data-driven cut-off analysis, and interactive visual dashboards.