bhubaneswar all india survey on higher education aishe 201920 report which was released on thursday revealed that 1159 foreign students including 379 female ones were pursuing their education in the educational institutions of the state in 201920 this number was 516 in the 201819 reportas many as 943 undergraduate students 158 pg students and 58 phd scholars from foreign countries were studying in the state according to the statistics 34649 female and 35798 male students have enrolled for the pg programme similarly 584 female students out of 1003 have enrolled for mphil programme in the state but in the phd programme the number of male scholars 1923 is more than the female 1423among other findings the report stated that odisha has 24 colleges per one lakh population average enrollment per one college is 659 but the national average is higher than the state india has 30 colleges per one lakh population and 680 average enrolment per college the report showed that the state has 1087 colleges but 1077 colleges have responded to this survey it says that 1 39451 students have enrolled in 282 private unaided colleges 3 00937 students in 432 private aided colleges 440388 in 714 total private colleges and 268975 students in 363 government colleges in the state