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With more than 17,000 colleges, 400 universities, 13 institutes of national importance and various other vocational institutes, the higher education system in India is one of the largest in the world.
However, it is the fast integrating world economy and corresponding rise of students mobility that have made studying in India an attractive option. There are a large number of Indian as well as foreign students who apply every year to Indian universities and colleges.
Education in India
The education system in India has savored a special bond between the teacher and the pupil since time unknown. In fact, India was the country to have established what we know as the 'gurukul' system of education. However, with the coming of the Britishers, English has become a part and parcel of Indian education system.
Today English is the third major medium of instruction in India after Hindi and Marathi.
Advantages of Studying in India
India is fast becoming a major economic power in the world today. And if its growth trend continues for some more years, it would soon be playing a major role in the world economy along with China. This itself has been a major cause of attraction for many international students. Moreover, India's successful stint with democracy (except the years between 1975-1977) has also been a major magnetic force for scholars around the world. However, apart from knowing India well, there are some other advantages that are attracting students to study in India. Some of these are -
- Low Cost: The cost of education in India is quite low as compared to many other countries of the world.
- Quality Education:Quality of education is not uniform throughout the length and breath of the country. However, there are some educational institutes in India that provide world class education.
Indian Institutes of Technology
Indian Institutes of Management
Indian Institutes of Science
National Law Schools
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Delhi University are some such Institutes.
The government of India is also speeding up the efforts to establish more such institutes that can offer quality education in India.
- Financial Assistance: Various scholarships, education loans and other financial aids are now available for studying in India today.
- Consultation Service: The government of India provides consultation service to the interested international students through Education Consultants of India (Ed.CIL). Thus one can get all the information about the Indian education system, cost of education, duration, visa, accommodation facilities even before landing up in India.
- Unique Courses: Apart from above mentioned advantages, one can also study some unique courses that were discovered and developed by the traditional knowledge system of India. Ayurveda, Sankrit, Yoga, Hindi are some such courses that enthuse many international students.
The report placed India at the top of all the studied countries, followed by China and Malaysia. Various factors such as availability and education of human resources, cost considerations including wages, infrastructure cost and taxes, and the overall political stability and intellectual rights security were used to find an attractiveness index for each country.
India ranked highest in the availability of talented, skilled and experienced work force. India also offers the best financial structure as it has a favorable tax and regulatory environment, labor costs and infrastructure costs.
Though China is next to India as an attractive destination, it lags behind India in a number of parametersClearly, India has a larger talent pool which is proficient in English and which produces better quality work using superior infrastructure.
Education in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu has 350 engineering colleges and 1150 arts college, 2550 schools and 5000 hospitals. Tamil Nadu has performed reasonably well in terms of Literacy in India during the decade 1991-2001. The state`s literacy rate increased from 62.66% in 1991 to 73.47% in 2001 which is well above the nation average. IIT Madras, Anna University, NIT Tiruchi in Engineering; Christian Medical College, and Madras Medical College in Medicine; Presidency College in Science; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Agriculture; are the premier institutes in the state. Also Tamil Nadu produces the highest number of engineering graduates in India (around 30,000) every year which attracts many software companies to set up their shop in south India. The Dravidian movement, which began in Tamil Nadu, championed the cause to uplift the socially repressed people, but it also drew considerable support from the middle classes. Educating the people and eradicating superstitions were some of their objectives.
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