Trends of Higher Education in Haryana

India’s education system, as one of the worlds largest, has been studied and reflected on through academic papers, used as a case study and been the subject of many renowned books. Higher education system, originally designed to serve the elite, will now have to serve the people. Innovation and change are required and it is important to understand that change will be essential specially in states like Haryana. Education has always been and continues to be one of the most important needs of mankind. It helps man indoctrinate values and apply the technical know-how in real life situations. In the emerging global world order, India is trying to position itself as a knowledge driven economy and so is our state Haryana. Higher education assumes tremendous importance in this context. Large scale changes are being talked about and may indeed be implemented. Value addition has been made by many UGC approved Indian Universities by s adopting modern tools and techniques. If we talk about Haryana state, where Gross Enrollment ratio show tremendous improvement, one can visualize the future of higher education in state.Many reports and surveys are indicating positive sign towards the state education development.According to FICCI Higher Education Summit report 2011, GER has been increased from 10.5 (2004-05) percent to 18.8 percent(2009-10) in Haryana. Moreover for the year 2013 report of Annual status of Higher education of states and UTs (ASHE) in India highlighted further improvement in GER and recorded it to 24.1 percent for Haryana state. All these factors are responsible for redefining the path of quality education in the state. To meet up the challenges, the state and private universities of Haryana state have instill many contemporary courses in the pre existed curriculum. Moreover to ensure the holistic development of the students, many UGC recognized universities of Haryana like CLU, Manav Rachna, NIILM Univesity,  ITM University etc. are offering Ph.D in different subjects according to guidelines of UGC at nominal fee structure. Univeristies of state are emerging as premier research labs in northern region contributing to overall growth of state.