Worthless Degrees Are Creating an Unemployable Generation in India
Students around the globe are increasingly questioning the returns on education. Nowhere is the problem more complex than India.
The complexities of the country’s education boom are on show in cities like Bhopal.
Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/BloombergBusiness is booming in India’s $117 billion education industry and new colleges are popping up at breakneck speed. Yet thousands of young Indians are finding themselves graduating with limited or no skills, undercutting the economy at a pivotal moment of growth.
Desperate to get ahead, some of these young people are paying for two or three degrees in the hopes of finally landing a job. They are drawn to colleges popping up inside small apartment buildings or inside shops in marketplaces. Highways are lined with billboards for institutions promising job placements.