Question : Female Participation in Education

(a) the number of Universitities, colleges and stand-alone institutions that participated in the All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE), 2019-20;
(b) whether the share of girl students is lowest in institutes of national importance while female participation in professional courses is lower in comparision to academic courses, according to the above said survey;
(c) if so, the details thereof;
(d) whether there has been an overall increase in female enrolment in higher education from 2015-16 to 2019-20; and
(e) if so, the details thereof along with the percentage of increase in this regard?

MINISTER OF EDUCATION

(SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a) The number of Universities, colleges and standalone institutions that participated in the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), 2019-20 is as follows:
Number of Institutions
Universities
Colleges
Stand Alone Institutions
Total number of institutions registered on AISHE Portal
1043
42343
11779
Number of institutions responded in the AISHE 2019-20
993
38102
8631
(b) Sir, the share of female enrolment in Institutes of National Importance (INIs) depends on the type of INI. As far as overall female students’ enrolment is concerned, they had a share of 52.8% in academic courses and 41% in professional courses according to AISHE 2019-20.
(c) Details of enrolment in various types of institutions are given in the table below. While the overall share of female enrolment in all INIs combined is 24.7% in 2019-20, there are variations between different types of INI. ‘Other INIs’ - AIIMS, IISER, SPA and others -have a better share of female enrolment (39.2%) than the State Private Universities and Other State Institutes where the share of female enrolment is 34.8% and 37.1% respectively.
Enrolment reported in Different types of Institutes
Type of Institution
Male
Female
Total
share of female enrolment
INIs
Technology INIs (IIT,IIIT and NIT)
166733
40477
207210
19.5%
IIMs
11099
4362
15461
28.2%
Other INIs
42952
27713
70665
39.2%
Total of INIs
220784
72552
293336
24.7%
Central Universities
1019034
868327
1887361
46.0%
State Public Universities
2020335
1766198
3786533
46.6%
State Private Universities
835435
444993
1280428
34.8%
Other State Institutes
28802
16977
45779
37.1%
Private and Aided Deemed Universities
492880
352051
844931
41.7%
Affiliated colleges and Standalone Institutes
14494068
14733511
29227579
50.4%
(source: Compiled from AISHE 2019-20)
(d) Yes, Sir. The overall enrolment of female students in higher education has been consistently increasing between 2015-16 and 2019-20.
(e) Table below gives female, male and total enrolment in higher education between 2015-16 and 2019-20. The percentage of enrolment of females has increased from 46% in 2015-16 to 49% in 2019-20.
Enrolment in Higher Education from 2015-16 to 2019-20
Year
Enrolment
% of female enrolment
Female
Male
Total
2015-16
15990058
18594723
34610515
46.2%
2016-17
16725310
18980595
35737841
46.8%
2017-18
17437703
19204675
36633829
47.6%
2018-19
18189500
19209888
37426954
48.6%
2019-20
18892612
19643747
38536359
49.0%
(source: Compiled from AISHE reports of different years)
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