Date: 01/04/2023 Shift: 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Q. No: 118

Over 78.9% of 4.1 crore students in higher education are enrolled at the undergraduate level, and of the total enrolled students over one crore are pursuing BA.
Another 17 lakh (4.2%) students are doing BA (Hons) from various higher education institutions. This was revealed in the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 released on Sunday by the ministry of education. State-wise data shows Karnataka, Telangana, Kerala and Himachal Pradesh having the highest number of colleges per lakh eligible population. Though the overall enrolment is on a record high, there has been a dip for Muslims and other minorities in higher education, which otherwise has been an upward trend for the past five years.
The government data showed that BA courses had the highest enrolment in the country at over 1 crore students, followed by Bachelor of Science (BSc) courses at 49.12 lakh students, according to the government’s AISHE 2020-21. In BA, 52.7% are females and 47.3% are males. The latest survey also showed that at undergraduate level in arts and science there are more females. Even at postgraduate level in streams like science, commerce and education, females outnumber males by a big margin.
As per the report, BSc “has 49.12 lakh students enrolled (of them 52.2% are females). There are 43.22 lakh students enrolled in BCom (of them 48.5% are girls). BTech has 23.20 lakh enrolled students, of which 28.7% are females. Bachelor of Engineering (BE) has 13.42 lakh students enrolled, out of which 28.5% are females.”