Engineering Education in India

An Indian entrepreneur examines the state of engineering education in that country:

We have been approached by many parents when their sons/daughters are in the final year of Engineering hoping that we can get their children a job. They say, “My son just finished his Engineering and is now looking for a job. I believe that you can get him one?”. And it hurts us that we can’t help most of them because of the sheer lack of quality. In a lot of ways we feel that these people have been duped. If someone had done this outside the context of an Engineering degree, such institutions would have been forced to close and the people behind this would have been taken to the courts.

He isn’t exceptionally happy with what he is seeing – substandard graduates being pushed out because of a number of institutional / cultural failings.  According to some reports fewer than 25% of graduates are ready to be directly employed by industry.  The author of the original post I mentioned isn’t the only one to note this, the Indian government also did a report which noted the lack of quality in many Indian engineering schools.  It appears to be an ongoing problem.