AISHE report: Girls outnumber boys in science courses enrolment
The enrolment of girls in engineering programmes is substantially low when compared to their male counterparts
As per the report, in 2020-21, 48,17,826 students enrolled in science undergraduate courses and 52 per cent were female. (File image) In the academic year 2020-21, 55,48,809 students enrolled in science courses at undergraduate, post-graduate, MPhil and PhD and females (53.1 per cent) outnumbered males, All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) report reveals.
As per the report, in 2020-21, 48,17,826 students enrolled in science undergraduate courses and 52 per cent were female. A total of 6,79,178 students enrolled in science post-graduate programmes, of which 61.3 per cent were females. In PG, the highest enrolment was in Chemistry with 1,53,635 students, of which 52.3 per cent were females followed by mathematics with a total enrolment of 1,04,269 with 60 per cent females.
In PhD, enrolment in science was 48,600 students with 48.8 per cent females. Within science, the highest enrolment was in chemistry with 9,863 students, of which 44.9 per cent are females, followed by Physics, with a total enrolment 7,720.
Share
