New Delhi: The total enrollment in higher education in India has increased to nearly 4.14 crore in 2020-21 from 3.85 crore in 2019-20. Since 2014-15, there has been an increase of around 72 lakh in the enrolment (21 percent), the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021 stated 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 compared to 2014-15 in the specialised universities relating to defence, Sanskrit, biotechnology, forensics, design, sports, etc.
The AISHE report says that among disciplines at the undergraduate level, enrollment is highest in Arts at 33.5 percent, followed by Science at 15.5 percent, Commerce at 13.9 percent and Engineering & Technology at 11.9 percent.
Among streams at the postgraduate level, maximum number of students are enrolled in Social Science 20.56 percent followed by science 14.83 percent.
Of the total enrolment, 55.5 lakh students are enrolled in Science Stream, with female students (29.5 lakh) outnumbering 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 says that the female enrolment has increased to 2.01 crore from 1.88 crore in 2019-20.
The percentage of female enrolment to total enrolment has increased from 45 percent in 2014-15 to around 49 percent in 2020-21.
As per 2011 population projections for the 18-23 years age group, the gross enrollment ratio (GER) has increased to 27.3 from 25.6 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. The female per 100 male faculty has improved to 75 in 2020-21 from 74 in 2019-20 and 63 in 2014-15.
The survey revealed that the total student enrolment in the northeastern states is 12.06 lakh in 2020-21 as compared to 9.36 lakh in 2014-15.
The female enrolment in northeastern states is 6.14 lakh in 2020-21, higher than the male enrolment of 5.92 lakh.
For every 100 male students, there are 104 female students in NER. Female enrolment outnumbered male enrolment for enrollment time in 2018-19, and the trend continues.
A total of 191 new higher education institutions have been established in northeastern states since 2014-15.
The enrolment in distance education is 45.71 lakh (with 20.9 lakh females), an increase of around 7 percent. Government universities contribute towards 73.1 percent of the enrollment. Government colleges contribute towards 34.5 percent of the enrolment.
According to the survey, the highest number of universities are in Rajasthan (92), Uttar Pradesh (84) and Gujarat (83).
The college density and the number of colleges per lakh eligible population (population in the age group 18-23 years) has been 31. This was 27 in 2014-15.
States with the highest college density are Karnataka (62), Telangana (53), Kerala (50), Himachal Pradesh (50), Andhra Pradesh (49), Uttarakhand (40), Rajasthan (40), Tamil Nadu (40).
–IANS
