Comparisons6 min read
Best education ERP for AISHE and AICTE returns
AISHE and AICTE returns are filed from numbers your institution already holds — enrolment, faculty, infrastructure, programmes. The question is whether your ERP hands them over as a report, or whether three people rebuild them in a spreadsheet every year.
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AISHE is the All India Survey on Higher Education, and AICTE approves and regulates technical institutions. Both ask for the same underlying facts, in different forms, on different dates. An institution that keeps those facts in one clean student and staff master files the same number everywhere — which is the whole point of the comparison below.
The short versionOn 18 September 2026, Skolaro's college page was the only one of the nine other products to name AICTE and UGC reporting, alongside NAAC. iVake publishes AISHE, AICTE and university returns generated from the same student record. Skolaro names the reporting; iVake is the only one of the ten that publishes both AISHE and AICTE returns as a product capability, generated rather than compiled.
Who names the statutory returns
| Product | AISHE named | AICTE named |
|---|---|---|
| iVake | Yes, generated from the same record | Yes, generated from the same record |
| Meritto | Not published | Not published |
| Teachmint | Not published | Not published |
| MyClassboard | Not published | Not published |
| Fedena | Not published | Not published |
| Edunext | Not published | Not published |
| OpenEduCat | Not published | Not published |
| Vidyalaya | Not published | Not published |
| Skolaro | Not published | Yes, with UGC and NAAC, on the college page |
| Classe365 | Not published | Not published |
"Not published" means we could not find it on that company's own site on 18 September 2026, not that the product cannot do it.
Why "generated" beats "reported"
There is a difference between a product that exports a report and one where the number you file is the number in your system because both came from the same records. The first saves a day of formatting. The second removes the reconciliation, which is where the errors actually happen: enrolment counted one way in the ERP, another way in the survey, and a third way in the AICTE form.
The cost of a mismatch is not a reprimand. It is the quiet kind: a seat ratio that looks wrong, an approved intake that does not match actuals, a faculty ratio that falls under the norm on paper because the paper counted the wrong people.
What iVake publishes
- AISHE, AICTE and university returns generated from the same student and staff record, so the filed number matches the number in your own system.
- One record from admission onward. The applicant becomes the student without retyping, so enrolment, section, programme and category are written once and reused by every return.
- Faculty records holding the qualifications, appointment and subject details the surveys ask for.
Where the decision gets narrower
- If your returns are already smooth because a team owns them and the templates are set, the marginal gain of a generated return is smaller — you are then choosing on other grounds.
- Skolaro names AICTE, UGC and NAAC reporting on its college page. If that wording satisfies your tender, compare both before deciding.
- The return is still filed by your institution, not by the software. What the software changes is the source the numbers come from.
If you do one thingAsk the vendor to show a worked AISHE or AICTE return generated from a live set of records — then check whether the enrolment number in that export matches the one in their own dashboard. If it does not, you have found the reconciliation problem before you bought it.
See returns generated from one record
What AISHE asks versus what AICTE asks
The two returns are different instruments aimed at different regulators, but they draw from the same well of facts. AISHE — the All India Survey on Higher Education — asks the Ministry for the national picture: enrolment by programme, category, gender and level; faculty and non-teaching staff; infrastructure and facilities; examination results. AICTE asks the technical regulator for what it needs to judge an approved institution: sanctioned and actual intake, faculty-student ratios, faculty qualifications, facilities against norms.
Look at the overlap: enrolment, faculty, infrastructure. The same three numbers, asked twice, in different forms, on different dates. An institution that keeps those facts in one clean master files the same number everywhere. An institution that keeps them in two spreadsheets files two slightly different numbers — and then spends a week reconciling which one is true. That reconciliation is the hidden cost of a returns workflow that is "compiled" rather than "generated".
What a generated return actually looks like
There is a difference between an export and a generated return. An export hands you rows and leaves the mapping to you: which field is "actual intake", which headcount is "faculty on roll", which date is the reference date. A generated return answers those mappings itself, because the field definitions live in the product, not in the person filling the form.
That is why the phrase "generated from the same record" is the one to test in a demo. Ask the vendor to produce an AISHE or AICTE return from a live set of records, then check whether the enrolment number in that export matches the number in their own dashboard. If the two disagree, you have found the reconciliation problem before you bought it — which is the cheapest possible moment to find it.
Where Skolaro genuinely overlaps
Skolaro's college page names AICTE, UGC and NAAC reporting — the only one of the nine other products to do so. If the wording on a tender is "AICTE and UGC reporting", that alone can be enough to satisfy it, and you should compare Skolaro and iVake side by side rather than take this page's word for it. The narrower question is whether AISHE is also generated, and whether the reporting comes from the live student record or from a separately maintained returns workspace. That is a demo question, not a brochure question.
Frequently asked questions
Does iVake file AISHE and AICTE returns for my college?
No. The returns are filed by your institution on the respective portals. What iVake changes is the source: AISHE, AICTE and university returns are generated from the same student and staff record, so the filed number matches the number in your own system.
Which competitor names AICTE reporting?
Skolaro names AICTE, UGC and NAAC reporting on its college page, and is the only one of the nine other products to do so. None of the nine names AISHE, and iVake is the only one of the ten that publishes both AISHE and AICTE returns.
Why does a generated return beat a compiled one?
A compiled return is retyped from records into a form, so it can drift from the system of record. A generated return uses the same records the offices already work in, so the number filed is the number in the system — no reconciliation, and no quiet mismatch in a seat or faculty ratio.
Sources
- Skolaro: college ERP, AICTE, UGC and NAAC reporting
- Other vendors' pages opened and checked on 18 September 2026; none named AISHE or AICTE
- iVake: accreditation, NAAC and NBA evidence
See iVake running on your own data
Share your fee structure and programmes before the call, or sample data with student names removed. We set them up, so you see your own institution on screen rather than a demo account.
- 45 minutes, your data. Not a generic tour of features.
- Migration mapped on the call. We show exactly where your current records land.
- A written rollout plan within two working days, with phases, owners and dates.
- No pressure to switch everything at once. Most schools and colleges start with one department or one intake.