The highest number of graduates in 2021-22 as per the AISHE report is from the Arts Discipline. The All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2021-22 conducted by the Union Education Ministry is the 12th edition of the survey.
According to the report, the total number of pass-outs increased to 1.07 crore in 2021-22 as against 95.4 lakh in 2020-21. At the undergraduate level, 24.16 lakh students graduated from BA courses, followed by Science discipline with 11.97 lakh graduates.
Of the graduates from BA courses, 54% are females and from the Science discipline, 53.8% are female students.
At the Post-graduate level, the highest out-turn is observed in Social Science (3.87 lakh) with 58.5% female students and Science has the second highest out-turn (2.61 lakh passed-outs) with 62.6% female students, mentioned the report.
At the Ph.D. level, the highest out-turn is in the Science stream (7,408) followed by Engineering & Technology (6,270).
Following are the top 5 streams with the highest out-turn at Under Graduate Level
Discipline | Pass-Out % |
Arts | 31.16 |
Science | 15.44 |
Commerce | 14.54 |
Engineering and Technology | 10.70 |
Education | 9.08 |
Following are the top 5 streams with the highest out-turn at Post Graduate Level
Discipline | Pass-Out % |
Social Science | 21.8 |
Science | 14.7 |
Management | 14.4 |
Commerce | 10.7 |
Indian Language | 8.2 |
Following are the top 5 streams with the highest out-turn at Ph.D. Level
Discipline | Pass-Out % |
Science | 22.7 |
Engineering and Technology | 19.2 |
Social Science | 14 |
Medical Science | 6.4 |
Indian Language | 6.1 |
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