Higher Education Ecosystem in India – Trends and Challenges that Students Face

Ruchir is the Co-Founder and CEO of CollegeDekho which is one of India’s fastest growing Ed-Tech startups. CollegeDekho is connecting students to colleges and universities from across geographies with the latest information on admissions, entrance tests, infrastructure, courses and careers. The startup aims at institutionalizing students counselling in India and thus far has counselled over four million students in just six years of its inception. Ruchir has 20 + years of experience in internet start-ups, technology and media domains. Ruchir did his Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in 2001 and went to the Indian School of Business for PGP in Information Technology and Finance. He has worked with TechM as a Manager and led Sales Operations for Shine.com, India’s premier job portal, managing 200+ sales executives across 10 locations. Ruchir founded HTCampus.com in 2010 targeting the education advertising and admissions services market.