Neo-Liberal Ideology in Higher Education Dr. Preeti Oza St. Andrew‟s College University of Mumbai Abstract: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity are the three concepts along with many ideologies and ways of living life which were bestowed upon human beings during a very volatile period of the French Revolution and which were added to the word „Enlightenment‟ which was a gift to the mankind given by the equally disturbed period in the human history called „The Renaissance‟. This proves that the human life has gone through the tremendous changes during the history of mankind and some of the best things what we enjoy today in life like Liberty, Freedom and Harmony have come to us after a lot of struggle. In the world of higher education also, this ideology has gone through many phases, throughout the world in general and in India in particular. Since the days of the Vedic education and the Gurukul system until today, the concept of higher education has been through much experimentation. This paper deliberates upon the process, changes, causes, and effects of Neo-Liberal education in the Indian context. Introduction: India, post-globalization in 1992, has been going through many substantial changes in the socio-economic-political arena. The idea of neo-Liberalism is mainly a political- economic practice. It is not „new‟ in the sense that more of it is based on the nineteenth century liberal beliefs and practices which started putting stress on the unregulated markets