The need for adequate, relevant and reliable data base on higher education for planning of and also to undertake research on higher education needs no further emphasis. But unfortunately the existing data base on higher education suffers from inadequacy, incomplete coverage and time lag. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has constituted a Task Force to conduct an All India Survey of Higher Education to fill this gap. In pursuance of the decision of Task Force, the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) is conducting an All India Survey of Higher Education. All institutions of higher education-both private and public are intended to be covered in Survey. These include all universities including deemed to be universities, institutions of national importance and other institutions of university level, general and professional/technical colleges and institutions that offer post-secondary education like polytechnics, DIETs, etc. The survey would collect data on basic profile of institutions like management, affiliation status, courses offered, and income and expenditure of institutions, etc. The data on enrolment and faculty would be collected by broad discipline, gender, social category, etc. It is hoped that the Survey would provide base line data for planning further expansion of higher education.