Modeling Doctoral Population Growth in Premier Technology Institutions in India

The present study utilizes the basic reproductive number ‘ R 0 ’ to make sense of the Indian Institute of Technologies' (IITs) doctoral population growth. The analysis shows that the R 0 for seven IITs under study, and for the engineering disciplines in these IITs, has increased over time. The estimation shows that for the seven IITs, every faculty member, on average, graduates 12.81 PhD students during their entire career. For the engineering...