- AISHE has been conducted since 2011 by MoE covering all higher educational institutions located in the country.
- For the first time, the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of India have filled their data using an entirely online data collection platform through the Web Data Capture Format (Web DCF) developed by the Department of Higher Education and the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Number of Institutions:-
- The total number of Universities / University institutions registered is 1,113, Colleges 43,796 and
Standalone Institutions 11,296. - During 2020-21, the number of Universities has increased by 70, and the number of Colleges has
increased by 1,453. - Since 2014-15, there has been increasing of 353 Universities (46.4%).
- The Institutes of National Importance (INIs) have almost doubled from 75 in 2014-15 to 149 in 2020-21.
Student Enrollment:-
- The total enrollment in higher education has increased to nearly 4.14 crore in 2020-21 from 3.85 crores in 2019-20. Since 2014-15, there has been an increase of around 72 Lakh in enrolment (21%).
- The Female enrolment has increased to 2.01 crore from 1.88 crores in 2019-20. There has been an increase of around 44 Lakh (28%) since 2014-15.
- The percentage of female enrolment to total enrolment has increased from 45% in 2014-15 to around 49% in 2020-21.
- As per 2011 population projections for the 18-23 years age group, GER has increased to 27.3 from 25.6 in 2019-20.
Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff in Higher Education:-
- The number of teachers has increased by 47,914 in 2020-21 over 2019-20.
- There are 75 female teachers per 100 male teachers.