Last Update: January 30, 2023, 18:21 IST
At the postgraduate level, the maximum number of students are enrolled in the social science stream (Representational Image)
The survey report released by the Ministry of Education revealed that of the 1.04 crore students enrolled in Bachelor of Arts (BA), 52.7 per cent are girls and 47.3 per cent are boys.
According to all government data, Bachelor of Arts (BA) courses have the highest enrollment of 1.04 crore students in the country, followed by 49.12 lakh students in Bachelor of Science (BSc) courses. India survey for higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21.
The survey report released by the Ministry of Education revealed that of the 1.04 crore students enrolled in Bachelor of Arts (BA), 52.7 per cent are girls and 47.3 per cent are boys.
There are 49.12 lakh students enrolled in Bachelor of Science (BSc) (52.2 per cent of them are girls). There are 43.22 lakh students enrolled in B.Com (48.5% of them are girls). There are 23.20 lakh enrolled students in B.Tech, out of which 28.7 per cent are women. There are 13.42 lakh students enrolled in Bachelor of Engineering (BE), of which 28.5 per cent are women.
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At the postgraduate level, the maximum number of students are enrolled in the social science stream (9.41 lakh students, of which 56.5 per cent were girls), followed by science.
The total number of PG students in social science courses is 9,41,648, out of which 56.5 per cent are girl students. The total enrollment in Science stream is 6,79,178, of which 61.3 per cent are females. Management stream has 6,86,001 students of which 43.1 per cent are girls.
In commerce stream 5.36 lakh students have enrolled for PG with 66.5 pc female students. There are 3.20 lakh students enrolled in PG in Indian Languages which is divided into 12 sub-streams. The number of students enrolled in education stream is 2.06 lakhs, in which the major contribution is from females with 64.4 pc.
Highest number of students enrolled in Engineering and Engineering at PhD level technology stream, followed closely by Science. engineering and technology The stream is divided into 21 sub-streams, with a total of 56,625 students enrolled for Ph.D., of whom 33.3 per cent are women.
In the science stream, 48,600 students have enrolled for Ph.D. with 48.8 per cent women. It is divided into 17 sub-streams such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Zoology.
STEM includes the science stream (including mathematics) and the engineering and technology stream. Enrollment in STEM (at UG, PG, MPhil and PhD levels) is 94.69 lakh, of which 53.74 lakh (56.8 pc) are males and 40.94 lakh (43.2 pc) are females.
The Ministry of Education has been conducting the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2011, covering all higher education institutions located in the country and imparting higher education.
The survey collects detailed information on various parameters such as student enrolment, teachers’ data, infrastructural information, financial information etc.
For the first time in AISHE 2020-21, Higher Education Institutions or HEIs have filled the data online through Web Data Capture Format (DCF) developed by Department of Higher Education with the help of National Informatics Center (NIC). ,
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