Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back in power to rule the nation for the next five years. The PM along with 57 ministers took the oath at the swearing-in ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday.

Analysing the educational qualification of the newly appointed ministers, India Today's Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) has found that the maximum percentage of the ministers who took the oath are well educated.

A total of 58 MPs, including the Prime Minister, who took oaths, 25 of them are Cabinet ministers, 24 are Minister of States and nine are Minister of State (independent charge).

According to the ADR data, around 83 per cent of ministers have attained higher education (graduate and above).

The maximum number of ministers are graduates.

A total of 16 ministers (28 per cent) are graduates. The number of postgraduates was the same, 28 per cent.

A total of 12 ministers (21 per cent) possess a graduate professional degree (engineering, CA, law etc.).

There were five such ministers (9 per cent) who have a doctorate degree.

These five are- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Mahendra Nath Pandey (Chandauli), Ramesh Pokhriyal, VK Singh (Ghaziabad) and Sanjeev Kumar Balyan (Muzaffarnagar).



Of the remaining MPs, while six ministers did not study beyond class 12, two ministers didn't go beyond class 10.

Class 10 was the lowest level of education that any minister has attained. The two ministers are Harsimrat Kaur Badal, MP from Bathinda (Punjab) and Rameswar Teli, MP Dibrugarh (Assam).

Though the ADR data shows Badal as a 10th pass, however, the DIU found that she also has a diploma in textile designing from South Delhi Polytechnic.

Prior to the election results, the DIU had analysed the candidates' data and had found out that around 48 per cent candidates were graduates. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose maximum candidates won the election, had 71 per cent graduate candidates.