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The country has adopted three major national educational policies since independence. In successive frameworks for the educational development in the country, higher education has been placed an important focus in it. Accordingly, the higher education in the state of Nagaland has been growing and improving to a considerable extent in terms of quantity and quality. In the light of this and the nation’s celebration of the 75th anniversary of India Independence, the present paper attempts to examine the growth and development of higher education in the state. The long for acquiring higher education and the challenges posed before the aspirants have been brought forth in the discussion. It is found that the first higher education institution was established in the year 1959 just few years before the statehood was declared. The number of educational institution has increased considerably to sixty-seven in the year 2022. Also, it is observed that the private institutions are facilitating higher education more than that of the public undertakings in terms of numbers of institutions and students enrolment. It is further observed that the available number of institutions facilitating higher education in the state is scarcely distributed amongst the districts. In the light of the above discussion, massive expansion of the provision for higher education has to be undertaken in the state.

Higher Education, Enrollment, Institution, Poorly developed, Growth.