Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- India's higher-education sector is emerging as one of the world's largest institutional real estate opportunities over the next decade, a report by ANAROCK Capital titled "The Academic Real Estate Supercycle" has said.

To meet the rising demand, nearly 30,000 acre of new campus land and approximately 2.7 billion square feet of academic infrastructure are set to be developed.

Chief executive officer (CEO) of ANAROCK Capital, Shobhit Agarwal, said that India's higher-education enrolments have surged from 27 million in 2010-11 to 45 million in 2022-23, driven by powerful demographic engines and rising household aspirations.

However, he said that approximately 25 million additional seats are required to reach a gross e...