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A (0:00)
Losing their childhood just for getting into college. And then your brain is not developed properly and what do you do after college? Right. That's a big question mark. After five years, looking back, looking at all the numbers, looking at where the students are coming out, I think we've really created a low cost, highly scalable, very high quality, rigorous undergraduate degree program which I think is the need of jihad as a country. He didn't have a way back. It's not easy in India to do these things. And he took this program, he did so well in it. His CG is so high you won't believe. Then he wrote this GATE exam, he topped it. Now he's doing M Tech in AI and Indian Institute of Science. So this career and life have changed. I think it's very possible, I'm very hopeful that I think we have the right ecosystem at this point. My name is Andrew, Andrew Sankaraj. As addressed me earlier, I'm a faculty here in the Electrical engineering department at IIT Madras. I did my Bachelor's here from IITM back in 98. After that I did a PhD from Georgia Tech in Atlanta in 2003. And then I did a year of postdoc in France and then I got back here as faculty. So 2004. I've been faculty here nearly more than 20 years.
B (1:04)
Yeah, actually and that's interesting because one of the things I've been talking to people about is one of the problems India has had is that people go abroad for their PhD and they never come back. And so the I ts are thinly peopled by high qualified people.
A (1:25)
IITs are okay. We lastly do okay. So. So maybe I think given my introduction then I think we also asked a very relevant question about how institutes in India find faculty. So if you look at how higher education works in India, it's a very interesting spread of things. So the IITs are few in number, about 23 today a large number of students do not go to IITs. Right. So every year about two and a half crores, I'm going to say in crores. I think you should convert to millions, whatever. So around two and a half crore kids come off college going age every year and about 87, 90 lakh actually get to college. So that's our enrollment ratio is about 27% or so. The southern states do much better. 50 plus C is 56. Kerala is close to 60. Then if you go to the northern states, they're, they're really close to. So it's a lot of kids don't go to college. And Even among the 90 lakh that goes to 1 lakh is like 100,001 crore is 10.
B (2:27)
So 90 lakh is like 9.
A (2:29)
Yeah, kids go to college and IITs every year take only, you know, 17,000, 18,000. That's it. Right. And even if you look at after IITs, what right, so then you have the NIDS, the institutes of National Importance together. Even they don't take that many. The number only comes to 50,000.
