According to the reports, the state higher education department is running its colleges and universities with only 50% staff. Due to the less number of staff members, the quality of education is decreasing every day. As per the reports on the status of higher education in 2020-21, out of 12,799 sanctioned posts in Rajasthan, 6,432 are lying vacant for years.

Not only the teachers but the post of principals are also lying vacant. Out of 292 sanctioned posts of principals, only 84 were found serving in the surveyed academic year, which discloses a lack of seriousness in the government's handling of higher education. The situation of the technical staff is also the same. Against a vacancy of hundreds, the state government has barely filled 480 lab technicians and 186 senior associates.

Rajasthan University, one of the most popular universities in the state, is going through the same situation. Almost half of the posts are lying vacant. Out of 1061 sanctioned posts of teachers, 525 are vacant nowadays. This situation has deeply affected the quality of education in Rajasthan University along with its sic constituent colleges. The report describes that Rajasthan University sanctioned 61 posts of professors, only three are serving, and 58 are lying vacant.

Puneet Sharma, an expert on higher education stated that the government is opening college after college every year with no provision for recruitment, which is a half-hearted attempt to enhance higher education. He added that it would end up producing a force of weak human resources.

Rashmi Jain, head of the department of sociology at Rajasthan University, commented that a teacher-student ratio is one of the main criteria for an institution to get NAAC accreditation and a high rank in NIRF. She further said that the professors are the backbone of any university, who facilitate research and development work. If professors are not there in the university in the required numbers for long, the system will crumble.