EDUCATION INFO

HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA
Higher Education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent streams with each stream monitored by an vertex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development . The 415 universities/ institutions, are mostly funded by the state governments. However, there are 20 important universities called Central universities, which are maintained by the Union Government and because of relatively large funding, they have an edge over the others.
The engineering education and business schools are monitored and accredited by the All INDIA Council For Technical Education (AICTE) , while medical education is monitored and accredited by the Medical Council of INDIA (MCI) .
Like-wise, agriculture education and research is monitored by Indian Council For Agriculture Research.Apart from these, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) controls all the teacher training institutions in the country. The country has some ace engineering, management and medical education institutions which are directly funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Union Government.
Admission to all professional education colleges is done through all-India common admission tests of which the IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CAT and CPMT are the most popular ones. Most of the institutions reserve a small percentage of seats for foreign students.