The Economic health of a nation is assessed using various economic indicators. Economic growth is one major indicator employed by investors worldwide to decide into which nation their surplus incomes should go. For almost close to three decades, the emerging economies of India and China are the centre of attraction for these investors. Not just for investors, students worldwide are looking at these destinations as destinations of Higher education and research. Emerging economies are those economies which are transitioning from a low income economy to a middle income economy. Although the Chinese growth trajectory is a peaked curve compared to India, the researcher wants to investigate in this paper, if the growth story has resulted in a transformation in their respective education sectors? Developing an econometric model, the study intends to understand the relationship between growth and human capital /the education sector.

India, China, Education sector, Econometric analysis