It is a sad comment on India’s education system and its employment scene that there are more and more coaching centres than colleges and universities nowadays. Some cities, such as Kota in Rajasthan, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Esaki-Smith is an author and covers higher education. The "coaching institutes" of Kota, India, prominently display photos of ...

Jaipur: Shubham Kumar’s AIR 1 in JEE Advanced 2026 marks the third consecutive year the top rank has gone to a student who ...

Inside a classroom at one of India's coaching centres in Kota Coaching centres in the northern Indian city of Kota are facing tighter regulations after a rise in the number of student suicides. BBC ...

A cycle parking space for students in Kota. Two years back, students found it difficult to find a slot here. (Devina Sengupta/Mint) At Chavi Medical, a pharmacy on an arterial road in Kota flanked by ...

Exams are just one part of the pressure that students have to go through, says 22-year-old Neeraj Nandan (named changed on request), a former student of a coaching institute in Kota who made his ...

A colloquial one-liner is often repeated these days in the busy streets of Kota, a famous coaching hub in Rajasthan where around 2.25 lakh JEE and NEET aspirants live and study. The one-liner "Kota ...

A typical image that people have of Kota is of students preparing for various entrance exams at one of its many coaching centres. Many think that the mentoring provided by these institutes goes a long ...

15 students died by suicide in Kota in 2022, 18 in 2019, 20 in 2018, seven in 2017, 17 in 2016, and 18 in 2015 A 24-year-old NEET aspirant from Gujarat and a 17-year-old JEE aspirant from Assam died ...