Statsguru: Opening door to foreign universities to set up campuses in India

Student numbers have grown meanwhile, with over 9.4 million students completing their studies annually

More people graduate from Indian universities every year than the entire population of Switzerland. The government’s recent draft norms for foreign universities to set up campuses in India is expected to help meet the educational needs of a surging student population. India’s higher educational institutes seem to be showing signs of strain despite having 1,043 universities according to the latest All India Survey on Higher Education report, though numbers have only gone up over the years (chart 1).

The pupil-teacher ratio, a measure of how many students are attended to by a single teacher, has been rising (chart 2). Reports