The Reason Behind Degeneration of Higher Education in India

A recent evaluation of universities and research institutes all over the world unfortunately has found not a single Indian university in the world's top 300. Though India's manufacturing of professionals is phenomenal with over 600 universities and 45, 000 colleges turn out 2.5 million graduates each year, in terms of the volume of production India trails behind only the US and recently China yet the Indian universities are increasingly moribund. Though India's higher education system is much-admired, each year India produces 350, 000 engineers, twice the number produced by the US, the IIT's are indeed world-class training institutes, so are the IIMs; and in recent years new law schools have also begun to produce unequaled lawyers, yet in spite of all these this recent evaluation of universities and research institutes, conducted by a Shanghai university, declared not a single Indian university in the world's top 300 universities. China has six. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, comes in somewhere in the top 400 and IIT, Kharagpur, makes an appearance after that. This is not easy to shake our shoulders but really worrying. Let's see what are the reasons behind India's this faltering education system and how it can be reconstructed. Obviously, the need is to reinventing our universities.