38% faculty posts lying vacant at India’s premier institutions

As another academic year is set to start, premier institutions in India — IITs, NITs, IIMs and IISERs — are staring at a collective faculty shortage of 38%, with cumulative vacancies as high as at 74% at the IIMs. It is 38.4% and 36.5% among IITs and NITs, respectively.As another academic year is set to start, premier institutions in India — IITs, NITs, IIMs and IISERs — are staring at a collective faculty shortage of 38%, with cumulative vacancies as high as at 74% at the IIMs. It is 38.4% and 36.5% among IITs and NITs, respectively.