Not a single Indian university is in the top 200 list; Govt. deeply concerned
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[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;46004012]Put it this way; it tends to vary a ton between courses. Something like an average B.Sc or generic computer engineering degree is a dime a dozen and so isn't too expensive to put one through college. Something like medicine can get crazy expensive, however - between the capitation fees (basically a large bribe needed to lock in or confirm your seat), the yearly fees (which at the time of my final year was about Rs. 6.5 lakh (or around $10,655 at the current exchange rate), the miscellaneous expenses, you're looking at a ton of money down the drain - but it's still cheaper than what you have to pay in America to put oneself through med school. However, most Indian families don't earn all that much on a comparative scale - so between the loans needed to finance such undertakings, the pledges you may need to make, and any immovable properties or gold you can finance, you're still looking at a minimum of 10-20 years paying off a debt, and that's if you aren't going to raise a family in the interim. It only goes downhill when you realize that you have to probably pay double what you did for your undergraduate course to get into and complete a post-graduate course.
Note that a vast amount of these expenses can get cut out if you gain a seat on merit either in secondary school exams or through PG entrance tests, but that's pretty much rolling the dice and hoping somebody else hasn't bribed enough to make sure that they pass the exams.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much, but with the added factor that comes into play, namely the abused quota system, which originally was designed for people belonging to backward caste or tribal folk to be able to have a good education. However, what's happened is that politicians now use the campaign promise of getting more seats in premier institutions to buy the votes of these communities, while at the same time selling off these seats (the capitation that Zonesylvania is often the "price" of those seats), resulting in things remaining the same, seat wise and the politicians (along with the college/uni administration) with the a shit ton of money.
The best part is, plenty of people who can actually afford it happily indulge in the abuse of this system as well - I know of a few middle class families who, in the interest of having their children (who were not especially academically gifted) get the best education possible by getting a certificate made that they were from a backward caste (they most certainly were not) and then had their kid easily get in with a terrible score. In the meantime, I knew of an extremely intelligent guy who, despite the score, ended up not being able to get a seat despite a pretty fantastic score because they were out of seats for his particular field.
The Indian education system is a farce, mired in as much corruption as the rest of the government and until the old cronyism supporting fruitbats who help support and propagate it don't die, it won't change.
Shit, we're 77th now so we'll probably have to change the "global top 75 University" signs :(
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