Jawaharlal Nehru University witnesses steady decline in female students in recent years
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 23 September 2023 | Edugraph
Jawaharlal Nehru University has been witnessing a steady decline in its proportion of female students in recent years, contrary to the national trend.
The proportion of its research students too has fallen from 62.2 per cent in 2016-17 to 46 per cent in 2021-22, suggesting the university is drifting away from its core area of advanced research.
Both trends started soon after the university adopted the University Grants Commission’s latest admission rules for research students in 2017, which led it to scrap its deprivation points policy — the award of extra points to students from backward districts and women students during admission.