Higher education is an educational level that follows the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school. Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and other training. The right of access to higher education is enshrined in a number of international human rights instruments. As a proportion of GNP Higher Education was only about 0.19 per cent in 1950-51. By 1980-81 it went up fivefold to 1 per cent but by mid-1990s it dropped to 0.4 per cent. In relation to the same we must hope good progress in present and future also. India has developed one of the largest system of Higher Education in the world with over 230 universities and 6500 vocational colleges catering to about 10 million students Most of these are publicly funded although some may be privately run.