Critical Review: Why Engineering Colleges are shutting down in India (original) (raw)

The boom in Information technology based service industry during the time period 2000 to 2015 led to increase in the number of engineering colleges in India. Majority of these engineering colleges where mostly established by politicians, small scale businessmen, and individuals who used privatization of higher education as a mean to enhance their wealth and power in the society. Though the regulatory body like All India Council for Technical Education has been regulating the quality of the education, they have miserably failed to improve the quality of education at large. The structured curriculum delivered through, outdated university system has not created professionals who are up-to-date with technological changes. Other than the Information Technology (IT) service industry, IT Enabled Service Industry (ITES) and traditional manufacturing industries majority of the engineers don't find employment or able to be technical entrepreneurs like in developed countries. This paper critically reviews the shortcoming of the current undergraduate engineering college system through employment generation, research, development, social-economic leverages and quality of education issues.