SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Jan 3: IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad registered a record 83.90 increase in producing doctorates in the calendar year 2022. Prof Rajni Singh, dean of media and branding of IIT ISM giving this information said that not only in PhDs, IIT (ISM) has also registered a significant rise in research in recent years.
The institute awarded 434 PhD degrees in 2022 against the figure of 236 PhDs in the previous year of 2021. The number of PhDs has increased to 355 during the financial year 2022-23 to date over the number of PhDs of 250 of the previous financial year of 2021-22.
The number of PhD produced by IIT (ISM) in the financial year 2020-21, 2019-20 and 2018-19 were 222, 113 and 148 respectively.
A similar rise in data of PhDs for the academic year ( July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023) is also likely as the institute has produced 269 PhDs from July 1, 2022, with six more months to go in the academic year while it has produced 292 PhDs in the academic year 2020-21.
“PhD education is gaining importance in different countries across the globe as PhD graduates reflect cumulative human capital to contribute significantly to a country’s growth,” said Prof Rajni Singh.
The number of PhDs in 2020 was only 184 while in the calendar year 2019 IIT (ISM) produced 107 PhDs. The significant rise in the number of PhDs over the last few years is due to the increased focus of IIT (ISM) on research and development activities across the different departments and disciplines including those in emerging areas.
She further added that research is one of the most important tools for building in-depth knowledge and facilitating specialised learning for higher educational institutes, Dhanbad based premiere technical cradle, IIT (ISM) has laid focus on research and development activities leading to an exponential rise in the number of PhDs produced by the institute.
Prof Rajni Singh said as per the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report less than 2 per cent population of the world has doctorate degrees.
Slovenia has the highest percentage of the population with doctorate degrees at a rate of 5 per cent which is followed by Switzerland with 3 per cent of its population having PhD degrees.
Similarly, 1.2 per cent of the US Population has PhD degrees while India which produces 24,000 PhD stands 4th against the US which produces the highest number of 68,000 PhDs.
