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Report on FICCI-MHRD Higher Education Leadership visit to University of Illinois Urbana Champaign USA From 16th June 2013 to 22nd June 2013 Indian Institute of Management Indore Competitiveness of Higher Education Institutes and opportunities in India 1.0 A: Introduction: 1.0 B: Roles of Higher Education Institution: 2.0 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UoI) 2.0 A Quick Facts: University of Illinois 2.0 B Financials: 3.0 Learning’s from the visit. 3.0 A Academic Excellence: Recruiting, Promoting, and Supporting Faculty 3.0 B University of Illinois Management Structure: Case Studies: College of Engineering 3.0: C Internationalization 3.0 D 4.0 Strategic Important institutes 3.0 E Student affairs. 1.0 Competitiveness of Higher Education Institutes and opportunities in India . 1.0 A: Introduction: Indian Higher education sector has grown phenomenally in the last ten years. We recorded 659 universities, 33,000 collages in 2012. Indian had 9701 professional institutions (Engineering, Law, Medicine and Management). Around 7.1 Million students enroll in professional institutes, out of which 1.6 million (25%) were engineering students. While enrollment in higher education has grown six times in the last 30 years, faculty strength has grown only four times. That’s the reason in India the student to faculty ratio is 26 .Academics in China authored five times more research papers than India’s in 2011. The relative impact of citations for India is half of that of the world average. These are just few examples which tell us the quality of higher education sector quality in the country. International Labor Organization (ILO) has predicted that by 2020, India will have 116 million workers in the age bracket of 20 to 24 years, as compared to Chinas 94 million. The positive demography of India is an opportunity for the country and if we do not address it now, will become a serious issue later. India has a very favorable dependency ratio and it is estimated that the