Impact Of Privatization On Engineering Education – A Study Through The Analysis Of Performance Of Self-Financing Engineering Programmes In India | K.G. Viswanadhan, N.J. Rao & C. Mukhopadhyay

The liberalization policies resulted in the drastic growth of software industry and the human resources needed in these fields in India. Due to lack of funds and policy reasons it was not possible to start sufficient number of engineering colleges in government-aided sector to meet this increased demand. This led to the setting up of a large number of engineering colleges in private sector under self-financing scheme. A study has been conducted to analyse the impact of privatisation on engineering education through the performance of undergraduate engineering programmes in India. The accreditation criteria of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India is taken as the framework for the study. Information about the performance of self-financing engineering programmes and governmentaided programmes from various parts of India are collected for the analysis. Hypothesis of equal mean performance of both categories of programmes is tested. Self-financing programmes seem to be very weak in human resources and supporting processes. Through a concentrated effort to improve supporting processes and human resources-faculty and staff, they can attract good students to the programme and there by improve student and overall performance of the programme. The paper presents the details of the study.