ABSTRACT
Professional education is governed by councils that are responsible for the quality and recognition of institutions for each specific profession. This chapter provides details on available data from individual councils. Note that though these councils can serve to create important data repository about the institutional and enrolment progress in professional higher education, they currently lack in reporting standards in terms of being up-to-date and uniformity. The data on admissions undertaken by institutions for pharmacy courses also showed a similar pattern of leaders and laggards. While some of councils such as Council of Architecture, Centre Council for Indian Medicine, and Pharmacy Council of India do provide state-level information on institutions; many others do not put such data in the public domain. Moreover, the availability of this data on state-wise number of institutions, admissions undertaken by institutions and seats approved, is constrained to just time point, therefore denying the scope of deriving any temporal trends of the different attributes of professional education.
