In the last five years, distribution of enrolment for general category students has been declining -from 49.9% in 2013-14 to 45.4% in 2017-18.Growth in enrolment of scheduled caste and tribe students is marginal while OBC enrolment has grown from 32.4% in 2013-14 to 35% in 2017-18. The General Enrolment Ratio (GER) for SC category is 21.8% and 15.9% for ST as compared to the national GER of 25.8%.For the first time, the survey collected detailed information about individual teachers with men constituting 58% of the teaching community. However, states like Kerala, Meghalaya , Nagaland and Delhi have more women teachers. The lowest gender ratio for teachers in the HEIs has been recorded in Bihar where 80% teachers are men, followed by Jharkhand with 70% men. The survey states maximum number of students are enrolled in BA programme, followed by B.Sc and B.Com programmes.The survey points out that 39 new universities were added in last one year. In a total of 903 universities, 15 are exclusively for women. Of the total nearly 40,000 colleges, more than 60% are located in rural areas while 11% are exclusively for women.The survey points out that over 81,000 teachers in higher educational institutions either don't have a Aadhar number or refused to reveal their UID details. It estimates the total number of teachers at 13,65,786 (based on uploaded data in 2014-15 and 2015-16) while the actual number of teachers whose details could be captured in the Teacher Information Format is 12,84,755.Initiated in 2011, AISHE is an annual exercise to prepare a database on higher education

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