Higher education in India

India's academy apprenticeship arrangement is the third better in the world, next to the United States and China.The capital administering physique at the tertiary akin is the University Grants Commission, which enforces its standards, advises the government, and helps alike amid the centre and the state. Accreditation for academy acquirements is overseen by 12 free institutions accustomed by the University Grants Commission.
Indian academy apprenticeship arrangement has broadcast at a fast clip by abacus about 20,000 colleges and added than 8 actor acceptance in a decade from 2000-01 to 2010-11. As of 2011, India has 42 axial universities, 275 accompaniment universities, 130 accounted universities, 90 clandestine universities, 5 institutions accustomed and activity beneath the Accompaniment Act, and 33 Institutes of National Importance. Added institutions cover 33,000 colleges as Government Amount Colleges and Clandestine Amount Colleges, including 1800 absolute women's colleges, activity beneath these universities and institutions as appear by the UGC in 2012. The accent in the tertiary akin of apprenticeship lies on science and technology. Indian educational institutions by 2004 consisted of a ample amount of technology institutes. Distance acquirements and accessible apprenticeship is aswell a affection of the Indian academy apprenticeship system, and is looked afterwards by the Distance Apprenticeship Council. Indira Gandhi National Accessible University is the better university in the apple by amount of students, accepting about 3.5 actor acceptance beyond the globe.

Universities

Universities in India accept acquired in aberrant streams with anniversary beck monitored by an acme body, alongside controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and adjourned accordingly by the accompaniment governments. A lot of universities are administered by the States, however, there are 18 important universities alleged Axial Universities, which are maintained by the Union Government. The added allotment of the axial universities accord them an advantage over their accompaniment competitors.
Apart from the several hundred accompaniment universities, there is a arrangement of analysis institutions that accommodate opportunities for avant-garde acquirements and analysis arch up to a PhD in branches of science, technology and agriculture. Several accept won all-embracing recognition. 25 of these institutions appear beneath the awning of the CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial Analysis and over 60 abatement beneath the ICAR - Indian Council of Agricultural Research. In addition, the DAE - Department of Atomic Energy, and added ministries abutment assorted analysis laboratories.The National Convention of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Indian Institutes of Technology are a part of the a lot of celebrated institutions aural the technology sciences. Indian Convention of Science is the arch analysis convention in the acreage of science and engineering. There are several thousand colleges (affiliated to altered universities) that accommodate undergraduate science, agriculture, business and abstract courses in India. Amongst these, the best aswell action column alum courses while some aswell action accessories for analysis and PhD studies.
Technical apprenticeship has developed rapidly in contempo years. With contempo accommodation additions, it now appears that the nation has the adequacy to alum over 500,000 engineers (with 4-yr undergraduate degrees) annually, and there is aswell a agnate access in the graduation of computer scientists (roughly 50,000 with post-graduate degree). In addition, the nation graduates over 1.2 actor scientists. Furthermore, anniversary year, the nation is enrolling at atomic 350,000 in its engineering authority programs (with affairs to access this by about 50,000). Thus, India's anniversary acceptance of scientists, engineers and technicians now exceeds 2 million.
2008 abstracts from Maharashtra's Academy Secondary Board reveals that .87 actor anesthetized the academy abrogation assay and enrolled in academy for undergraduate studies. Abacus enrolment in polytechnic programs and graduates from added boards puts Maharashtra's absolute at abutting to a actor and its academy enrolment arrangement at almost 39%. States like Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Kerala aswell accept analogously top tertiary acceptance ratios. In Andhra Pradesh, the tertiary enrolment amount is now abutting 25%.
Across the country, tertiary acceptance ante accept been accretion at a amount amid 5-10% in the endure decade, which has led to a acceleration of the tertiary enrolment amount to abreast 20%. (However, anachronous government abstracts does not yet abduction this trend, which can be apparent from analysing alone accompaniment data.)
International alliance tables produced in 2006 by the London-based Times Academy Apprenticeship Supplement(THES) accepted Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)'s abode a part of the world's top 200 universities. Likewise, THES 2006 ranked JNU's Academy of Amusing Sciencesat the 57th position a part of the world's top 100 institutes for amusing sciences.