This paper deals with the focus on the role of ICT in higher education for the 21st century. Specifically the paper has contended that ICTs have affected on educational practice in education training to date in very little ways yet that the effect will develop impressively in years to come and that ICT will turn into a solid specialist for change among numerous instructive practices. It is obvious from the study that use of ICT in higher education is expanding quickly in different states of India. A standout amongst the most widely recognized issues of utilizing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education is to base decisions with respect to innovative conceivable outcomes instead of educational needs. In developing nations where higher education is laden with genuine difficulties at several levels, there is expanding strain to guarantee that innovative potential outcomes are seen with regards to instructive requirements. The utilization of ICT in training fits more understudy focused learning settings and regularly this makes somewhere in the range of pressures for a few educators and understudies. Be that as it may, with the world moving quickly into computerized media and data, the part of ICT in higher education is ending up increasingly imperative and this significance will proceed to develop and create in the 21st century.
