From Gurukul to online mode, education has become an ever-changing sector now breaching geographical boundaries to reach out to people across the globe. Today the focus is on imparting education through Internet, doing away with the conventional teaching in classrooms. Scores of online agencies have come up during the last half-decade offering ample scope for students get degrees and diplomas sitting at home. The new mode of education ensures quality on par with the regular mode of one-to-one class room teaching. The course curriculum and teaching is no way less than the general mode. What exactly is online education? As per definition on the web, it is basically credit-granting courses or education training delivered primarily via the Internet to students at remote locations, including their homes. The Online courses may or may not be delivered synchronously. An online course may need that students and teachers meet once or periodically in a physical setting for lectures, labs, or exams, so long as the time spent in the physical setting does not exceed 25 percent of the total course time. Online education in India is still on its way in gaining popularity. Through online education, one can opt for many online degrees or online courses from various online universities that provide this facility. While online education in India is still in its infancy, online education abroad is quite a hit among the people. The main attraction of online education is the flexibility through which education is imparted – through the Net. And more appealing is the fact that a person can pursue an online course within the comfort of his home or any other place that he chooses. For instance, there are more than 1500 private engineering colleges in the country almost all of which do not have the minimum required number of well-qualified teaching faculty, which according to the country's needs should be 1 teacher for every 16 students. Most higher education institutions run at a ratio of 1:60, or sometimes, even worse. Moreover, going by the ideal teacher to student ration Indian needs about 160,000 teachers for engineering education for a student population of about two million. But institutions of higher learning in India are barely able to train no more than 4000 teachers every year and offer them jobs. On one side good quality teachers are concentrated in few geographical areas / institutes / colleges & schools. On the other side there are students from all over the country who want to get into a good school / college / institute. Kota in Rajasthan is a very good example where the entire eco-system of the town has been built around thousands of students staying in the town for almost a year to prepare for engineering examinations by enrolling in one of the numerous engineering entrance coaching institutes of the likes of Bansals, Resonance, Career Point, Allen etc. While preparing for competitive exams, it's extremely crucial to get real time assessment on practice tests. GOIIT.com a leading online education portal provides a platform where students or engineering aspirants can have online tutorials for competitive exams like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, etc. The portal intends to provide an elite expert panel, comprising IIT students, graduates and engineering coaching professional who have a common passion for Engineering Entrance exams in particular and science in general. The panel will provide online guidance to students appearing for the JEE. The biggest asset of the venture is that it is free, no subscription cost either! This comes as a huge-advantage to the student community who has been craving for personalized help, but could not afford it due to costs or demographics. It also breaks all geographic barriers to bring together some of the best brains in the industry to help nurture the next generation. Many other education portals are also coming up to help and breaking the barrier between resources and the aspirants. Indiatimes, Motorola and also many other big universities like 21 Global, University of Phoenix Online and American InterContinental University Online are opening up opportunities for student community of India. Students in India will surely be benefited by this expanding arena and the new online media.