Higher Education Boom in India

Abstract

India has a glorious past with enrichment of higher education. India possesses a highly developed higher education system which covers almost all aspect of human creative and intellectual endeavors: arts and humanities, natural and applied sciences, social sciences, commerce and management, engineering, medicine, agriculture, education, law, national and foreign languages, music and performing arts, culture, communication, professional areas like cost and management accounting, company secretaryship, etc. The Nalanda University of India was the oldest University system of education in the world. Scholars from different countries used to come to India to get higher education. Nalanda and Taxila among others were most important centers of learning of that time. Those institutions of higher education used to systematically impart knowledge and attract a good number of foreign scholars to study different topics like grammar, arts, logic, medicine, metaphysics, etc.