Today, an Indian citizen can afford to have foreign insurance,
foreign banking, foreign food, foreign clothing and foreign
education too. The growing economy is changing the structure
and composition of business education in India. There is
a radical change, in the way corporate sector looks at the
business education providers. Corporate expectations are
growing in a geometric proportion. A strong emphasis on
domain knowledge and soft skills are the burning desires
of the corporate. This led to tremendous competition and
pressure among the students. Increased importance on pure
academic content and method of delivering process resulted
in unbalanced growth of the students. Students have become
more focused and developed a mature bent of mind only towards
academics and the job. Performing better and anticipating
good reward has become the mantra of the day. Moreover,
the corporate pressure mounted to an extent, where the attrition
rate in the corporate circle is at its peak. Job and emoluments
are the only two key words, our management students are
familiar with. Consequently, students' mind has become very
narrow. This is a huge loss to the society. Any education
without human face and values is detrimental to the society.
The growing corporate sector paved the way for super normal
growth of young management graduates in India. The quantum
of management graduates in India is grossly inadequate.
Moreover, India is one of the largest countries in the world
with highest number of young population. In India, people
in the age group of 17 to 23 years; only 11% (or 10.5 mn)
of the people sign up for higher education as compared to
other developing economies. It is 13% in China, 31% in the
Philippines, 27% in Malaysia and 19% in Thailand. New Delhi's
annual budget for higher education is $2 bn or 0.37% of
the GDP, relatively lesser than other countries in the region.
The data reveals potential for higher education in India
and in turn for business education too. The corporate demand
and the supply of business graduates have not been perfectly
matched in India. Forty international universities have
submitted their proposals to the government of Maharashtra,
seeking land in the Mumbai, Pune and Nashik area to establish
a campus. They are interested to acquire land even in Karnataka
due to software development. Stanford University, British
Columbia University, McGill University, Cubec University,
Simon Fraser University, and Montreal University have acquired
land from 10 to 300 acres.
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