Assessment of Students in Self-financing Courses of Private-Aided Colleges of Ambala District

Among various alternative sources of financing, the self-financing courses are visualized as a most emerging and influential source of generating funds for the education sector and the government too favoring this trend as it reduce their financial burden on one hand and meet the ever-raising demand of higher education on the other. Thus the present paper attempts to assess the total student's strength enrolled in various self-financing courses of private-aided colleges of Ambala district of state of Haryana and the socio-economic profile of the sampled students of self-financing courses along with their family's background. The study made use of both primary and secondary data and on the basis of that it concluded that though the enrollment of students in various self-financing courses are quite impressive and they belongs to a well-off families but the issues of low participation rate of the weaker sections in the higher education sector and the fee structure of the self-financing courses are still the vital concerns that requires the immediate attention of the policy makers.