India holds an important position in the education sector from a global perspective.  India is considered to be one of the largest higher education networks in the world. There is a huge potential in the education sector to develop further, by using the technology in education. Use of technology in teaching, learning and assessment is changing the education landscape. Technology has been changing the way of assessments especially with regard to the conduct of entrance exams in India. As a result, the number of entrance exams in India conducted by various colleges and institutions is increasing with currently more than 100. These are to admit students to various programmes. This web portal is to help the students to get maximum information about the entrance exams in India. I am trying to cover all the examinations conducted by the education institutions in India.

Entrance Exams in India have changed dramatically

COVID19 has thrashed all the conventional models of teaching and learning processes. Most of the entrance exams in India are moving online. Online exams embedded with the technology like AI, Cloud Computing, Remote Proctoring is changing the assessment style. This helps the students to get introduced to the technology at the early stage. Along with the teaching and learning process, technology is changing the assessments and entrance exams in India.

The central government’s aim is to raise the current gross enrolment ratio to 30%. This is to boost the growth of distance education. Distance education will play a vital role in getting degrees in India. 

India has the world’s largest youth population, of about 500 million in the age group of 5-24 years. This provides a great opportunity for the education sector to boom with the help of technology. Number of colleges and universities in India reached 39,931 and 993, respectively by the end of 2019. The number of entrance exams in India will keep increasing with the growth in the quality of institutions. 

India had 37.4 million students enrolled in higher education in FY19. Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education reached 26.3% in FY19.

Entrance Exams in India and approvals

In 2020-21, there were 9,700 total AICTE approved institutes. AICTE is the All India Council of Technical Education operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and regulates all the technical institutions in the country. Any technical institute offering the programmes in higher education in India shall get the prior approval from AICTE. This is for both to start a programme on the campus as well as for online. Among the total number of such technical institutions, there are 4,100 undergraduate, 4,951 postgraduate and 4,514 diploma courses. These were offered in the AICTE approved institutes in the country by the end of 2019. 

An institute is permitted to conduct entrance exams in India only with an approval from these authorities. These authorities are called “competent authorities”. India has also become the second largest market for E-learning industry after the US with the impact of technology,

Entrance Exams in India – the future 

• Integrate training methods to include online learning and games. They are expected to grow 38% in the next 2-4 years.

• Quality of teaching and learning is improved by adopting transformative and innovative approaches in Higher education.
• state-wise, gender based and social disparity in GER to be reduced to 5%.
• Indian higher education system will envision to provide talent across the globe with one in four graduates in the world.
• be among the top five countries in the world in terms of research output
• have more than 20 universities among the global top 200 universities.

Institutions conducting entrance exams in India

1. Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTI) 
   1. includes Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institute of Science, Education & Research (IISER), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institute of Teacher Technical Training & Research (NITTTR), Others (SPA, ISMU, NERIST, SLIET, NITIE & NIFFT, CIT).
2. Deemed Universities – approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) run by private managements & trusts.
3. Private Universities approved by the State Governments.
4. Affiliated colleges admit students based on the rank scored by the candidates in the entrance exams conducted by state governments.

This portal will serve the students to understand well about the entrance exams in India conducted for admission to higher education programmes.