According to the All India Survey on Higher Education(AISHE)2019-2020 released on Thursday also revealed that apart from more females being enrolled in Mphil, postgraduate and certificate levels, they continue to dominate in medical sciences, BA and BSc programmes.
However, it is in the professional and technical courses where female enrolment is significantly lower. As per the report, the number of female students is lowest for institutes under state private open university(2,499) followed by institutes under state legislature act (3,720) whereas the share is highest in state public universities.
As per the survey, a sharp increase in female participation at higher education is seen. There has been an overall increase of over 18% in female enrolment in higher studies from 2015 to 2019-20.
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