The Ministry of Education recently released the All Indian Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) report 2019-20.
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The report revealed that the number of Institutes of National Importance (INIs) have increased from 75 in 2015 to 135 in 2020.
The number of PhDs has also increased by 60 per cent in the last five years.
Students pursuing a Master’s degree in technology had decreased by more than half in the last five years alone, from 2,89,311 in 2014-15 to 1,35,500 in 2018-19.
As per the AISHE report 2018-19, BTech and MTech programmes had seen a dramatic fall. B.Tech enrolment fell by 11 per cent in the same period, from 42,54,919 to 37,70,949.
