The educational progress of the Scheduled castes was visualized through provision of reservations in the educational institutions, provision of pre-metric and post metric scholarships, provision of text books, hostels and residential schools. These inputs provided for more than five decades did register enhanced levels of educational attainments among these disadvantaged sections both in quantitative and qualitative terms. It is now the third generation of Dalits, who have come up utilizing the special inputs provided for their educational. Occupational, economic and politic mobility. It also needs to be further examined whether those who were successful in the school education pursue higher levels of professional and post graduation making use of the protective discrimination and the other educational inputs provided to them. The progress of the Scheduled Castes in the realm of the higher education also has to the object of analysis for, the higher education opens avenues for employment and better career options the career of a person and propel his or her occupational and social mobility. This paper seeks to examine the quality and the level of progress of scheduled caste students in the realm of Higher education particularly in the Engineering, Medical and Post Graduate courses so as to gauge in the degree of their educational progress in terms of the levels and quality of higher education attained by the scheduled caste students in the era of globalization.

Key Words: Disadvantaged, Dalits, Protective discrimination, Educational inputs, Educational attainments Five decades, Vulnerable sections, Politic mobility, Social mobility Globalization.