Total Enrollment in Higher Education India It has increased from 3.85 crore in 2019-20 to about 4.14 crore in 2020-21. Enrollment has increased by about 72 lakh (21 per cent) since 2014-15, All India Survey on higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021 said on Sunday.
Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan are the top six states in terms of number of students enrolled.
Enrollment has increased in 2020-21 as compared to 2014-15 in specialized universities related to Defence, Sanskrit, Biotechnology, Forensic, Design, Sports etc.
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Among subjects at the undergraduate level, enrollment in arts is the highest at 33.5 per cent, followed by science at 15.5 per cent, commerce at 13.9 per cent and engineering and engineering, the AISHE report said. technology 11.9 percent.
Among the streams at the post-graduate level, maximum 20.56 per cent students are enrolled in social sciences, followed by 14.83 per cent in science.
Out of the total enrolment, 55.5 lakh students are enrolled in science stream, in which female students (29.5 lakh) outnumber male students (26 lakh).
As per the response in AISHE 2020-21, about 79.06 percent of the total students are enrolled in undergraduate level courses and 11.5 percent are enrolled in postgraduate level courses. The total number of pass-outs has increased to 95.4 lakh in 2020-21. As against 94 lakh in 2019-20.
The Ministry of Education released this survey on Sunday evening.
It states that female enrollment has increased from 1.88 crore to 2.01 crore in 2019-20.
The percentage of female enrollment in total enrollment has increased from 45 per cent in 2014-15 to around 49 per cent in 2020-21.
As per the population estimates of 2011 for the age group 18-23 years, the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) has increased from 25.6 to 27.3 in 2019-20.
The total number of teachers is 15,51,070 of which about 57.1 percent are male and 42.9 percent are female. From 74 in 2019-20 and 63 in 2014-15 to 75 per 100 male faculty in 2020-21.
The survey revealed that the total student enrollment in the northeastern states is 12.06 lakh in 2020-21 as compared to 9.36 lakh in 2014-15.
In 2020-21, the female enrollment in the northeastern states is 6.14 lakh, which is more than the male enrollment of 5.92 lakh.
There are 104 female students for every 100 male students at NER. Female enrollments outnumbered male enrollments for the enrollment timings in 2018-19, and this trend continues.
A total of 191 new higher education institutions have been established in the North Eastern states since 2014-15.
Enrollment in distance education is 45.71 lakh (with 20.9 lakh females), an increase of about 7 per cent. The contribution of government universities in enrollment is 73.1 percent. Government colleges account for 34.5 percent of the enrollment.
Rajasthan (92), Uttar Pradesh (84) and Gujarat (83) have the highest number of universities, according to the survey.
College density, the number of colleges per lakh of eligible population (18-23 age group) has been 31. It was 27 in 2014-15.
States with highest college density are Karnataka (62), Telangana (53), Kerala (50), Himachal Pradesh (50), Andhra Pradesh (49), Uttarakhand (40), Rajasthan (40), Tamil Nadu (40).
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