Department of Higher Education (India)

Higher Education Department
Department of Higher Education
Department overview
JurisdictionGovernment of India
HeadquartersNew Delhi,  India
Department executive
  • Vacant, IAS, Secretary, Department of Higher Education.
Parent departmentMinistry of Education

Department of Higher Education is the department under Ministry of Education, that oversees higher education in India.

The department is empowered to grant deemed university status to educational institutions on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India, under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "The UGC Act, 1957" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IISST) Thiruvanathapuram Declared as Deemed to be University". Archived from the original on 18 May 2009.
  3. ^ "IIST gets deemed university status", The Hindu, 15 July 2008, archived from the original on 18 July 2008