| |19 May 2017HIGHERReviewniversity education system started in In-dia in the year 1857. The first three uni-versities, namely the university of Cal-cutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai) were started with the influence of the British education system, modeled around the University of Lon-don. Now, it has been long 160 years and Indian university education has under-gone tremendous changes along with a colossal increase in the number of uni-versities in India. Presently, India has 789 universities, including 47 central univer-sities, 359 state universities, 123 deemed universities and 260 private universities. With the increasing number of uni-versities, the focus should be laid on en-hancing the quality with diversity, and less on the commercial opportunities. In India, most of the universities grab a student's attention through large rooms and huge campuses, but the quality as-pects needs to be evaluated. To catch up the quality, the universities need to recognize the three essential elements, namely the physical infrastructure, ac-ademic reforms and a team of skilled faculty members. Further, the em-phasis should be on the access of Indian students to global frontiers, which is possi-
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