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- Gross enrolment ratio in higher education is calculated for the 18-23 age group
- Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education in India is 27.1 per cent for 2019-20
- It is an improvement from previous year’s 26.3 per cent.
- For Scheduled Castes, the ratio is 23.4 per cent and for Scheduled Tribes, it is 18 per cent.
- The highest GER is in Sikkim, at 76%.
- Tamilnadu is at 51.4%.
- Karnataka is at 32%
- The other states are Kerala (39%), Telangana (36%), AP (35%) and Maharashtra (32.3%).
- In terms of Student enrolment (In Numbers), Uttar Pradesh occupies the first place.
- It has 49.1% male and 50.9% female students.
- It is followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
- The number of universities has increased by 30.5% from 799 in 2015-16 to 1043 in 2019-20.
- Of the 42,343 colleges in the Country, 60.56% are located in rural areas and 10.75% of colleges are exclusively for girls.
- And the majority of the colleges (78.6%) in the country, are privately managed, led by Andhra Pradesh (81%), Telangana (80%), Uttar Pradesh (78.5%), and Tamil Nadu (77.6%).
- Maharashtra tops in the enrolment of students in universities (including constituent units) with 9,67,034, followed by Tamil Nadu with 9,26,490 students, and Delhi with 8,16,110 students.
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