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There are different teaching methods practiced in all domains of education. Though we generally label any teaching method as pedagogy, its adult counterpart i.e. Andragogy is seen to have yielded quite good outcomes in higher education, particularly in professional courses. Here, the authors have employed two self-developed questionnaires, QASP and QASE based on Mallcom Knowles' six principles on 98 post-graduate students pursuing professional courses in various institutes in and around Kolkata. QASP tries to uncover their perspectives towards the principles while QASE tries to know about their experiences on the same dimensions. The results show that there is quite a difference between these two i.e. these students don't get to experience andragogy in their classrooms as much as they would like to. Dimension-wise deeper analysis reveals that five out of six principles are responsible for the difference while the sixth principle relating to internal motivation of the learners is not much potent in this case. Addressing this gap is essential to uplift the status of higher education in the country.