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Women's enrolment in technical education has gone up by 17% in 2025 from 4% in 2022, with the most prominent uptick observed in deep-tech fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), prompt engineering, cybersecurity, robotics, and data science, according to a report released on Thursday.

This trend was most prominent in AI and Machine Learning (ML) programs, where women's participation went up fourfold in a single year from 5% in 2024 to 20% in 2025, reported College Vidya, a UGC education platform.

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