Reengus & the Shekhawati Higher-Education Report 2026
An interactive map and data brief on the higher-education belt around Reengus, in Sikar district, Rajasthan: where the universities and colleges actually are, the women's-education gap that defines the opportunity, the Sikar coaching economy, and what it takes to build new higher education in the region.
Shekhawati higher education at a glance
Is Shekhawati a real higher-education region, or just a coaching town?
Both, and that is the opportunity. Sikar has become one of India's largest test-preparation hubs: roughly 80,000 students in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) coaching, an economy of about INR 2,000 crore, and in NEET-UG 2024 it produced more top-end results than Kota (Source: ThePrint, 26 July 2024).
But the region is far more than coaching. Sikar district alone carries 330 colleges (All India Survey on Higher Education, 2021-22), among the ten most college-dense districts in the country, and the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shekhawati University (PDUSU) affiliates 600 plus colleges across Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Churu. The region also holds a dedicated women's university.
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