UNIT COSTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
SIV.01 Considering the importance of unit cost studies in higher education, where the provision of educational facilities is much more expensive than at other levels of education,the Education Commission requested a few universities to investigate the per student expenditure in higher education under their Jurisdiction. Accordingly, twelve universities, namely, Andhra, Annamalai, Bhagalpur, Bombay, Jiwaji, Kurukshetra, Nagpur, Osmania, Poona, Rajasthan, Sardar Vallabhbhai and Utkal, conducted such studies.
SIV.02 Being a comparatively new field, where not much systematic work has been done so far in our country, these studies throw up interesting results. These relate to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various faculties in general as well as in professional education. The results have been summarized and are given in Tables SIVA to SIV.5. These deal with costs in university teaching departments and university/constituent colleges and affiliated colleges.
SIV.03 A glance at these statements is enough to show how wide the variations in the costs are: while some variation is, no doubt, due to the differences in the methodology and the scope of these studies, a good deal of the variation may be due to the differences in the levels of the facilities and services provided in these institutions which in turn depend on such variable factors as salaries of teachers, student-teacher ratio, library, laboratory and other facilities provided, besides the capital cost.
SIV.04 In order that these studies are more useful, it is necessary that these be conducted on a uniform pattern based on agreed concepts and definitions. We feel that the UGC should assist some universities to conduct such investigations periodically on the basis of standardized techniques
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TABLE SIV.2 BOMBAY UNIVERSITY
(a) Cost Per Student its Postgraduate Departments (1963-64)
Instruction
Department Instruction including
research
Rs. Rs.
1. Economics 962 1,460
2. Civics and Politics 495 534
3. Business Management 1,294 1,244
4. Sociology 613 688
5. English 1,410 1,394
6. Sanskrit 2,116 2,194
7. Mathematics 1,550 1,519
8. Applied Psychology 1,926 1,816
9. Statistics 1,483 1,470
10. Law 416 436
11. Chemical Technology 2,665 2,569
(b) Cost Per Student in Colleges
Com- Train- Law Arts Science Engi- Medicine Dentis-
Year merce ing & neering try
Science
Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs.
1949-50 226 1,060 107 350 1,361 2,092 879 553
1950-51 212 1,063 162 272 1,858 1,000 726 888
1951-52 246 970 146 312 1,333 574 816 897
1952-53 282 972 156 310 1,291 1,077 923 913
1953-54 156 815 122 298 1,192 833 1,037 814
1954-55 171 677 149 297 .. 1,260 .. ..
1955-56 177 428 160 298 1,384 1,205 1,216 1,591
1956-57 148 540 162 284 1,330 1,203 1,248 1,570
1957-58 168 602 164 302 1,696 1,241 1,342 1,671
1958-59 179 707 162 285 1,603 1,314 1,725 1,485
1959-60 172 787 171 327 1,543 1,190 1,973 1,835
1960-61 253 815 166 351 1,616 1,535 2,033 2,005
1961-62 347 872 173 359 1,453 2,359 1,652 2,281
1962-63 317 744 208 384 1,643 1,316 1,693 2,782
1963-64 307 845 205 431 1,497 1,194 2,155 2,767
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TABLE SIV.3 NAGPUR UNIVERSITY
(a) Cost Per Student in Undergraduate Institutions, 1964-65
Institution Cost per student
Rs.
1. College of Arts (Smt. Binzani M. M. College) 433
2. College of Science (M. M. College of Science) 450
3. Institute of Technology (Laxminarayan Institute
of Technology) (a) 1,857
4. College of Arts & Science (Hislop College) (b) 497
5. College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Dhanwate
National College) 222
(a) The institute has a very small enrolment for the master's degree, so that practically it may be treated as an undergraduate institution.
(b) This College has only one postgraduate department (sociology), the expenditure on which has been deducted from the total expenditure. It has been treated as an undergraduate institution combining arts and science.
(b) Cost Per Student in Colleges with Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Sections, 1964-65
Institution Cost per student
Rs.
1. College of Commerce
(G.S. College of Commerce and Economics, Nagpur)
A. Undergraduate Section 281
B. Postgraduate Section 360
2. College of Agriculture
(Government College of Agriculture, Nagpur)
A. Undergraduate Section 873
B. Postgraduate Section 1,613
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TABLE SIV.4 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
cost Per Student in colleges (1963-64)
College Cost per student
R.S.
(A) University and Constituent Colleges
1. University College of Science 1,027
2. University College of Arts & Commerce 775
3. Evening College, Secunderabad 687
4. Nizam College 681
5. Saifabad Science College 637
6. Women's College 612
7. Arts & Science College, Secunderabad 564
8. City Science College 453
9. Arts and Science College, Warangal 404
10. Hyderabad Evening College 329
(B) Private Colleges
11. Sri Venkateswara Arts & Science College,
Palem 757
12. Hindi Mahavidyalaya, Hyderabad 693
13. Arts & Science College, jadicherla 675
14. Urdu Arts College 659
15. Anwar-U-loom. College, Hyderabad 497
16. Badruka College of Commerce (Day) 444
17. Vanitha Mahavidyalaya, Hyderabad 443
18. Arts & Science College, Godwal 440
19. R.B.V.R.R. Women's College 382
20. Nanakram. Bhagwandas Science College 377
21. Vivek Vardhani College (Day) 364
22. Mumtaz College 358
23. St. Francis College, Secunderabad 337
24. New Science College, Hyderabad 284
25. Badruka College (Evening) 221
26. Vivek Vardhani College (Evening) 212
(C) Government Colleges
27. Government Arts & Science College, Adilabad 829
28. Government Nagarjuna College, Nalgonda 587
29. Government Arts & Science College, Siddipet 578
30. Government Giriraj College, Nizamabad 509
31. S.R. & B.G.N.R. Government Arts College,
Khammam 457
32. S.R. Government College, Karimnagar 387
UNIT COSTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 933
TABLE SIV.5 POONA UNIVERSITY
Cost Per Student in Undergraduate Courses
Pre- 3-year 4-year
College degree degree degree
course course
RS. RS. RS.
Arts
1. Fergusson College, Poona 269 342 319
2. Shri Shahu Mandir College,
Poona 203 256 236
3. H.P.T. College, Nasik 348 456 409
4. R. B. Borawake College,
Shrirampur 454 587 538
Science
1. Fergusson College, Poona 352 400 380
2. H. P. T. College, Nasik 448 521 486
3. R. B. Borawake College,
Shrirampur 598 814 701
Commerce
1. B. M. College of Commerce 247 224 232
2. B. Y. K. College of Commerce,
Nasik 323 309 314
3. C. D. Jain College, Shri-
rampur 365 532 444
4. Shri Shahu Mandir College,
Poona. 222 285 249
Law
1. Law College, Poona .. 302 ..
Education
1. Tilak College of Education .. 725 ..
Engineering
1. College of Engineering, Poona .. 1,525 ..
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