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 the figure touched an all-tim
