All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) Report 2021

By Mohit Choudhary|Updated : December 28th, 2022

AISHE 2021: All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) report for 2021 was released by the Ministry of Education. The survey collects data on several parameters like teachers, student enrolment, examination results, programmes, infrastructure, education finance, etc.

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Key Findings:

1) Total Student Enrolment:

In the last five years from 2015-16 to 2019-20, there has been a growth of 11.4% in student enrolment.
Total Enrolment in Higher Education stands at 3.85 crores in 2019-20 as compared to 3.74 crores in 2018-19, registering a growth of 11.36 lakh (3.04 %).
Uttar Pradesh has the highest student enrolment in India, it has 49.1% male and 50.9% female students followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

2) Gross Enrolment Ratio:

GER is the number of students enrolled in a given level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the official school-age population corresponding to the same level of education.
The percentage of students belonging to the eligible age group enrolled in higher education in 2019-20 is 27.1% against 26.3% in 2018-19 and 24.3% in 2014-2015.

3) Teachers:

Total Number of Teachers stands at 15,03,156 comprising 57.5% male and 42.5% female.
Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Higher Education in 2019-20 is 26.

4) Attractive Disciplines:

Nearly 85% of the students (2.85 crores) were enrolled in the six major disciplines as Humanities, Science, Commerce, Engineering & Technology, Medical Science and IT & Computer.

5) Gender Parity Index:

Gender Parity Index (GPI) in Higher Education in 2019-20 is 1.01 against 1.00 in 2018-19 indicating an improvement in the relative access to higher education for females of eligible age group compared to males.
A GPI of 1 indicates parity between the sexes; a GPI that varies between 0 and 1 typically means a disparity in favour of males; whereas a GPI greater than 1 indicates a disparity in favour of females.

6) Female Enrolment:

There has been an overall increase of over 18% in female enrolment in higher education from 2015-16 to 2019-20.
However, the share of girl students is lowest in institutes of national importance while female participation in professional courses is lower in comparison to academic courses.

You can download the report from here:

AISHE 2021 (English)

AISHE 2021 (Hindi)