Online Education, the New Trend in India

Bangalore: In India education is given the prime status, it is welcomed from all sources, even at the click of a button. Online education is catering to many students across the country since it has become available. It has seen a huge rise in the number of users over the years and the users are not just limited to the major cities.  In the smaller cities it has seen an exceptional growth, as informed by the online education providers. The number of students logging in has increased by two and a half times in the past one year, reported Isha Jain for TNN.

As per the statistics shared by online education portal ‘meritnation.com' about 90,000 users  register on the education site each month, across the country. U.P. alone shows a number of 6000 to 7000 students approximately opting to study online each month. It’s been observed that Delhi accounts for the maximum number of registrations in the country with 20 percent of total online traffic on the website. Maharashtra is the second highest state with 11 to 12 percent users, followed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Each of these three state show 8 to 9 percent of users using e-learning websites.

Among the courses offered online science and mathematics are the most preferred subjects by the students, followed by English. The least opted subject by the students is Humanities. Relatively, commerce gets sufficient number of students online.
 

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