With 33% teaching posts vacant, Indian varsities continue to lag globally

Professors play a leading role in conducting academic research, apart from teaching duties but India is short of professors, with 5,606 posts vacant in central universities, a shortfall of 33%

India is one of the world’s top economies and the country with the world’s largest working-age population–around 861 million aged between 15 and 64. These data emphasise why education is critical to India’s future growth.

Yet, a third of teaching posts are vacant in India’s central universities, no Indian university–India has 36.6 million university students–finds a place in the global top 100 and the highest rank achieved this year was 420 by Indian Institute of Science, a five-year low.