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At the initial stages, institutions under the Government sector outnumbered the Private institutions as the Policy of Government then did not favor much private participation in order to have control over the Technical Education portfolio.   The growing scope of higher education imposed by the demand raised through market expansion has led to an undue expansion at this level with the larger role assumed by the private sector which then got popularly branded as Self Financing Institutions.   T he State houses 14  Universities which include the Central University of Kerala, IIST, IISER, and NUALS. The Higher Education Scenario prevailing in the state   The embarrassing reality is that thousands of engineering seats in dozens of self-financing colleges have remained vacant over the years.  If in 2012 there were 7,686 vacant engineering seats, the figure rose to 8,481 in 2013 and to 12,181 in 2014. By 2015,   the vacant seats rose to 16,528 and finally in 2016 ...
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Since 15 years back ,  Engineering Education were confined to State owned or Govt  aided or Govt. controlled institutions and the seats were so limited that the admissions to those were done based on strict merit among real aspirants.   The rapid developments in the field of technology opened many fold opportunities for engineering graduates which could not be catered by the Government institutions alone.   On the other hand, many entrepreneurs saw this as a business opportunity coupled with social responsibility, which resulted in the concept of Private Self Financing Engineering Colleges which have since then mushroomed .  The number of Engineering Colleges at the dawn of independence in 1947 was 44 with an intake of 2500.  I n the early eighties, Govt. allowed private participation in the setting of technical institutions on the  basis of  self financing . According to the AICTE, approximately 440,000 students were enrolled in first-level engin...
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