In continuation with review of , Draft Paper titled – Higher Education in India: Retrospection of Advent and Growth of Private Sector- authored by Dr. Kishor Joshi, Dept. of Economics, MKBU, Bhavnagar.

The draft paper reveals vital data under the sub-head, Growth of Indian Higher education by institute and enrollment. It claims that India has the highest numbers of educational institution followed by China. As per the draft paper, Institutions having status of University has registered 23% increase during 1950- 2012.During the same tenure, colleges registered 51% jump between 1950 to 2013. The enrollment that was 397000 in 1951 had climbed to 28560000 in 2011-12.  An interesting statistics is also given, in the draft paper, regarding institutions and number of enrolled students. It is related with the strength of students registered with colleges. The paper reveals that 30% colleges enrolled less than 100 students. Colleges enrolled between 100 to 500 were 34%. Only 4% colleges’ enrolled has more than 3000 students enrolled. Thus it shows, nearly 76% students enrolled belong to small institutions. Out of them, it is not given how many are in rural, urban and rurarban area. Out of total enrollment 79% are undergraduates and merely 2% goes for higher studies such as Ph.D. M.Phil. and PG Diploma etc.  

The draft paper gives very vital data related to Higher Education scenario. It has used very reliable sources for the data (as claimed in my first review). It claims that in 2011-12 out of 700 universalities half of then offered multi-disciplinary. 33 Agriculture Universities, 24 Medical Universities and 17 Law Universities. There were 35539 Colleges during the period of which 66 % offered General Course.   

The paper claimed that enrollment were dominated by conventional courses-Arts, Commerce, Science, and Management.. It amount to almost 60% of the total enrolment during the period. GER ( Gross Enrolment Ratio ) that was nearly 8.1% in year 2000-01 has climbed to 20.4% in 2011-12.