<p>^ your last sentence is super-correct:D</p>
<p>The last sentence just summarises India’s education system and it flaws quite aptly!</p>
<p>Yeah, one of my ‘serious disagreements’ with the Indian system is concerning is the hyped concentration to a limited number of majors and professions. As if life cannot exist beyond Engineering, Doctor, MBA (Business administration), or IAS, and remaining sundry ‘prestigious’ jobs. How exceptional you might be in unconventional fields, there is a general sense of discrimination when it comes to your comparison with these mainstream professions. And I know it from my own experience so I don’t need much justification and whatsoever the reason might be, it exists.</p>
<p>But then, we live in reality and not a utopia. From what I know, the US system is only much more extended in their approach, besides marks, you have arduous ECs to pursue as well.</p>
<p>At university level, we are plagued with the dearth of a nationwide reputed university which offers courses and majors in a multifarious fields. The IITs are dominated by engineering (and mind you, the coaching centres are enough to brainwash the aspirants out of any hopes of pursuing anything other than the Bachelor of Technology degree); likewise, the IIMs are predominantly the Business Administration or the MBA. And these gobbling up all the prestige, we have the multifarious universities at a much lower level, for example, the DU - not utterly poor in the quality of education and infrastructure (a friend of mine testified that St. Stephen’s College actually has a better infrastructure than the IIT-Delhi), but the lack of recognition they get. Plus some might be plagued by what arronie claims. </p>
<p>Here, lack of funding plays a role too. And I will reiterate that it depends on what you want and how you perceive education. I want more diverse people with diverse opinions and interests, so I’m willing to head overseas. There are brilliant people here as well, only elusive, and not getting the deserved attention.</p>
<p>I agree with nOmadMIT - you get what you pay for. </p>
<p>PS: From what I know, most of the research in scientific fields in US as well, is governed by research grants, and most of the time you have to relinquish what you want and jump the bandwagon if you want to make a career in research. Just a summarised example showing that the system is not perfect as well. (Source: The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin)</p>
<p>guys this thread is becoming like a collection of some highly intellectual parish guys preaching and giving their valuable opinions to anyone caring to listen.</p>
<p>It’s very sad to know that india don’t have enough colleges, what government doing about it?</p>
<p>Laundering more money to feed itself, of course.</p>
<p>Education is like the least of their priority.</p>
<p>OMG!!! This thread is an year old and i’ve just completed reading every single comment.</p>
<p>Although my comment now may not affect this thread(old thread!!), I would like to say just one point.</p>
<p>Indian apex unis(IIT’s, IISc and rest) have the greatest flavor of classroom teaching, BUT they lack other essential student requirements: advanced research labs(here students do not have the chance to conduct research unless they enter masters), diverse student-body, good and neat dorms, and finally, hygienic food.</p>
<p>A few unis(like BITS-Hyd, SMU, SRM) have the latter requirements, but they fail in developing the very class-room teaching flavor of the IIT’s,IISc or NIT’s.</p>
<p>i study in an IIT and i can tell you we do deserve better than these IITs</p>
<p>A relevant link. Do Read.
<a href=“https://www.quora.com/IIT-JEE-Joint-Entrance-Examination/How-does-it-feel-like-to-fail-IIT-JEE/answers/1819077?__snids__=80479382&__nsrc__=1[/url]”>https://www.quora.com/IIT-JEE-Joint-Entrance-Examination/How-does-it-feel-like-to-fail-IIT-JEE/answers/1819077?__snids__=80479382&__nsrc__=1</a></p>
<p>This is so true. It’s ridiculous that Indian colleges, which don’t even rank in the top 200, have such high cutoff/low acceptance rates. I personally went to IIT Delhi as part of the environmental club of my school, and let me tell you, it is actually saddening to see their equipments as compared that of any American college. The people there are brilliant, mind you, maybe even a collection of the world’s most brilliant minds, but they have a terrible environment to study/work in.</p>
<p>IIT may be great, but I guess MIT’s better! :|</p>
<p>As for DCE, BITs- again, great colleges, but they’re lacking in quite a few areas.</p>
<p>Great discussions here.</p>