To keep up with this skyrocketing demand, India will need to add between 800 and 1,000 new universities between now and 2022
We can only speculate about the number of new universities that will be built in India over the next decade. What we do know, however, is that India’s 430 institutions of higher learning can’t come anywhere close to keeping up with demand, as the number of Indians seeking to go on to post-secondary education increases by 12 to 30 percent each year.
[This article republished with permission from the author and the Tuck School of Business.]