New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- Research by a team from IIM Udaipur has found that students from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) outnumber General Category students' enrolment into higher education, a press release by academic research platform CasteFiles said.

According to the press release, fifteen years after the Ministry of Education (MoE) began publishing annual All-India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) reports, a research team from IIM Udaipur has analysed student enrolment trends to produce one of the most exhaustive studies ever conducted on caste-wise participation in Indian higher education.

Led by Venkatramanan Krishnamurthy, faculty in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems at IIM...