The IIT Story: Issues and Concerns
The IITs have consistently performed as institutions of world-class excellence in an otherwise mediocre higher educational system. Without government funding of these "institutions of national importance,'' most IIT students would probably not have been able to afford such high quality education. Indiresan have suggested that the typical IIT student is in need of more financial assistance than the typical MIT undergraduate since the cost per year of MIT undergraduate education is almost equal to the current U.S. per capita income while the cost of an IIT education works out to much higher than the level of India's per capita income. Not all IIT students attend the best U.S.colleges for post-graduate education and some of those who now go to middle-rung U.S. schools might choose to remain in India if post-graduate education in the IIT system were improved. The IIT system has responded successfully to the changing needs of the global economy, but a relevant question is whether it has even attempted, in recent times, to meet India's changing needs.
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