UP, Maharashtra Have The Most Colleges In India, 4.33 Crore Students Enrolled For Higher Education

Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of colleges in the country, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, the All India Survey for Higher Education 2021-22 ha said.

States with most colleges in India

According to the report, there are 8,375 colleges in Uttar Pradesh, while Maharashtra comes second with 4,692 colleges and Karnataka comes at the third position with 4,430 colleges Rajasthan is at the fourth position with 3,934 colleges and Tamil Nadu comes at the fifth position with 2,829 colleges followed by Madhya Pradesh with 2,702 colleges.

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Andhra Pradesh (2,602 colleges) Gujarat (2,395 colleges) Telangana (2,083 colleges) and West Bengal (1,514 colleges) made the top ten list.

Colleges per one lakh population

In Uttar Pradesh, the survey found that there are 30 colleges for every one lakh population.

With 66 colleges per every one lakh population, Karnataka led the list followed by Telangana (52), Andhra Pradesh (49), Himachal Pradesh (47), Puducherry (53) and Kerala (46).

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Colleges in India

There are 45,473 colleges registered under AISHE belonging to the 328 universities (affiliating). Of these 42,825 responded in the survey year 2021-22.

The survey report pointed out that more than 60 per cent colleges are general in nature, 8.7 per cent colleges are specialised in education or teacher education, 6.1 per cent colleges are engineering and technology institutions, 4.3 per cent nursing colleges and 3.5 per cent medical colleges.

While 2.7 per cent colleges offer arts courses, 2.4 per cent are dedicated to pharmacy courses, 0.7 per cent science colleges and 1.4 per cent Sanskrit colleges.

PG and PhD colleges

¡°Out of the 42,825 responding colleges, 14,197 colleges are offering PG programmes and 1,063 have PhD enrolments,¡± the report said.

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Districts with most colleges

Colleges per district are widely distributed across the country. As much as 10.7 per cent colleges out of total registered in AISHE are in the top 10 districts. The top 50 districts have 31.3 per cent of total colleges.

Bengaluru Urban district has the maximum colleges (1,106) followed by Jaipur (703), Hyderabad (491), Pune (475), Prayagraj (398), Rangareddi (349), Bhopal (344), Ghazipur (333), Sikar (330) and Nagpur (326).

Higher education enrollment

The total estimated enrolment in higher education institutions is 4,32,68,181 out of which 96,38,345 are in universities and their constituent units, 3,14,59,092 is in colleges, and 21,70,744 in Stand-Alone institutions.

It also found that Kerala, Telangana, Haryana and Assam are the top four states that have more female enrolment in the country compared to others.

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The total female enrolment is 2,06,91,792, as per the report.

States that saw maximum student enrolment are Uttar Pradesh (69.73 lakh), Maharashtra (45.78 lakh), Tamil Nadu (33.09 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (28 lakh), West Bengal (27.22 lakh), and Rajasthan (26.89 lakh).

¡°These states account for 53.32% of total student enrolment,¡± the report said, adding that these states also house 51.4% of the total population of the 18-23 years age group.

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