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Eternal India
EDUCATION
encyclopedia
Higher Education in Contemporary India: Stagewise Structure & Facultywise Specturm
Level-wise Enrolment in Higher Education
Year
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Research
VC*
Total Enrolment
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
1950-51
145389
83.7
19992
11.5
1434
0.83
6881
3.97
173696
1960-61
471658
84.7
58908
10.6
5083
0.91
20910
3.79
556559
1970-71
1746090
89.4
161182
8.2
133311
0.68
33057
1.72
1953640
1980-81
2401485
87.2
273337
9.9
32171
1.20
45444
1.7
2752437
1988-89*
3474171
88.0
375053
9.5
43427
1.10
55271
1.4
3947922
VC * = change vacancies caused by multiple course enrolment application
Higher Education in Contemporary India: Stagewise Structure and Facultywise Spectrum
Faculty wise Enrolment in Higher Education
Year
Percentage to the Total Enrolment
Arts
Sc.
Com.
Engg./Tec.
Med.
Edn.
Agri
Law
Vet. Sc.
Others
1960-62
44.9
30.0
10.2
3.6
2.7
' 1.5
1.3
2.3
0.5
3.0
1970-71
44.3
31.7
11.5
3.0
3.3
1.8
1.4
2.3
0.2
0.4
1980-81
40.5
19.4
20.1
4.7
4.0
2.6
1.4
6.3
0.3
0.7
1988-89
40.3
19.7
21.5
4.6
3.6
2.3
1.3
5.8
0.3
0.6
Facultywise Enrolment in Higher Education
Year
Ph.D Degree Awarded
Arts
Sc.
Com.
Engg./Tec.
Med.
Edn.
Agri
Vet. Sc.
Law
Others
1960-62
314
401
15
9
20
14
41
-
1
-
1970-71
876
1103
58
42
99
33
216
26
5
3
1980-81
2246
2792
105
173
139
44
466
60
13
42
1987-88*
2933
2842
225
205
236
93
557
74
51
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DETERIORATION INQUALITY
On account of unregulated growth of colleges and universities, which was due to continuous pressure for equity and social justice
and the craze for government jobs, especially white collared ones, it was not possible for the government to monitor, evaluate and
maintain or develop quality in higher education. Though a few truly qualitative institutes of excellence like the IITs in Eng ineering or
IIMs in Management, IISc, (in Science), Institutes of Social Science Research like Tata Institute of Fundamental Social Science, Re-
search, the number of such institutes is a drop in the ocean. By and large, colleges and even a number of universities have become
notorious for low standards and malpractices in examinations.
No. of PH.D. Awarded (in ’000s)
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