Date: 01/04/2023 Shift: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM Q. No: 118

The Ministry of Education has been conducting the annual survey of higher education in India since 2011 where it collects data which include student enrolment, teachers’ data, infrastructural information, and financial information, among others.
The All India Survey of Higher Education-2020-21 reports that at the postgraduate level, the maximum number of students are enrolled in Social Science stream (9.41 lakh students, of whom 56.5% are females), followed by Science. Total enrolment in science stream has 6,79,178, out of which 61.3% are females. Management stream has 6,86,001 students enrolled for PG with 43.1% being females.
“Commerce stream has 5.36 lakh students enrolled for PG with 66.5% female students. There are 3.20 lakh students enrolled in PG in Indian languages which are divided into 12 sub-streams. The number of students enrolled in Education stream is 2.06 lakh, in which major contribution is female with 64.4,” the report said.
The top states in terms of number of colleges are led by Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Karnataka respectively.