Higher Education in UP

Against over 15 lakh students, including over nine lakh of UP Board, who have qualified the 10 plus 2 examinations this year, the number of seats available in degree colleges and state universities is only around one lakh. If one adds around 50,000 seats in technical, medical and agriculture colleges as well, the number would go up to 1.5 lakh. Let us assume that 10 to 20,000 students would manage to get admissions to educational institutes in other states, around 30,000 may join open university and 50,000 polytechnics and private vocational institutes. Still, 12 lakh students of the state will have no opportunity to pursue the higher education.
Significantly, students passing the 10 plus 2 examinations this year will also have to compete with around 10 lakh students, who could not get admissions in higher education previous year. In Lucknow, there are only around 30,000 seats at under-graduate level against the two lakh students who seek admissions every year.
Uttar Pradesh has three Central universities, 12 state universities, two agriculture universities, one technical university, one medical university, one dental university, five deemed universities, two open universities and 800 degree colleges. Out of around 14,209 posts of teachers in the state universities, 20 per cent are lying vacant. The total number of students in all the three under-graduate years and two post-graduate years as well as in technical, medical and agriculture colleges is around 10 lakh. It means the teacher-taught ratio is around 1:100 against the UGC's prescribed ratio of 1:60.