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NITI Aayog Report on Higher Education 2025
February 13 , 2025
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- The policy report prepared by the NITI Aayog titled ‘Expanding Quality Higher Education through States and State Public Universities’.
- Among all states and Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir spends most for education as a percentage of GDP at 8.11%, followed by Manipur (7.25%), Meghalaya (6.64%), and Tripura (6.19%).
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana continue to be the top spenders on per youth spending on higher education.
- The states like Rajasthan, Punjab and Chhattisgarh lagging in it.
- Maharashtra leads in higher education funding with a budget of ₹11,421 crore, followed by Bihar (₹9,666 crore) and Tamil Nadu (₹7,237 crore).
- States like Sikkim (₹ 142 crore), Arunachal Pradesh (₹155 crore), and Nagaland (₹167 crore) have the lowest higher education budgets.
- When considering higher education expenditure as a percentage of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), Bihar ranks highest at 1.56%, followed by Jammu & Kashmir at 1.53% and Manipur at 1.45%.
- Telangana has the lowest percentage at 0.18%, while Gujarat and Rajasthan allocate 0.23% each.
- The national average university density is 0.8.
- Sikkim has the highest density of 10.3, followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand.
- In the highly populated states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, the West Bengal and Maharashtra, density at the state level is below the national average, with Bihar recording the lowest at 0.2.
- The States like Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have higher female enrolment rates than males.
- Smaller states and UTs like Chandigarh, Mizoram, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have relatively balanced male-female enrolments, with differences of only a few hundred students.
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