Council for Technical Education

All India Council for Technical Education  while medical

education is monitored and accredited by the Medical Council of India

 Like-wise, agriculture education and research is monitored by

the Indian Council for Agriculture Research. Apart from these, National

 Council for Teacher Education  controls all the teacher training

 institutions in the country. The country has some ace engineering,

management and medical education institutions which are directly funded

by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Union Government.






Higher Education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent streams

 with each stream monitored by an apex body, indirectly controlled by

the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The 615 universities

institutions, are mostly funded by the state governments. However,

 there are 45 important universities called Central universities,

which are maintained by the Union Government and because of relatively

 large funding, they have an edge over the others. The engineering

education and business schools are monitored and accredited by the








Admission to all professional education colleges is done through all-India

 common admission tests of which the IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CAT and CPMT are the most

popular ones. Most of the institutions reserve a small percentage of seats for
 foreign students.