Education in Uttarakhand is provided by various public and private institutions. Uttarakhand had a long tradition of learning and culture.

Detail

In Uttarakhand there are 15,331 primary schools with 1,040,139 students and 22,118 working teachers (Year 2011). As per

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, the literacy rate of the state was 78.82% with 87.40% literacy for males and 70.01% literacy for females. The language of instruction in the schools is either English or Hindi. There are mainly government and private schools and institutions including primary schools, high schools, inter college, degree colleges and technical institutions. The main school affiliations are CBSE, CISCE or the State Government syllabus defined by the Department of Education of the

Government of Uttarakhand The Government of Uttarakhand also known as the State Government of Uttarakhand, or locally as State Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and its 13 Districts. It consists of an executive branch, led ...

Notable schools and Institutions

There are many notable schools and institutions in Uttarakhand. Sumitra nandan pant museum, kausani

* The Doon School Dehradun * Sherwood College, Nainital *

The Woodstock School Woodstock School is an international coeducational residential school located in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with the town of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Woodstock is one of the oldest residen ...

Mussoorie * Oak Grove School (Mussoorie, Uttarakhand), Mussoorie *

St George's College, Mussoorie St. George's College, Mussoorie, is an all-boys boarding and non-boarding school in Mussoorie, in the state of Uttarakhand, India, affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations board. The school, an all-boys resident ...

Colonel Brown Cambridge School Colonel Brown Cambridge School is one of the oldest residential schools in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. It is an English medium school affiliated to the Indian Council of School Certificate Examination (CICSE) board of Education. The school ...

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Convent of Jesus and Mary, Waverley, Mussoorie Convent of Jesus and Mary, popularly known as CJM Waverley, is a boarding school in Mussoorie, India. It was founded in 1845 by the Religious of Jesus and Mary, Mussoorie Education Society. It is a residential school for the girls and is the ol ...

Wynberg Allen School Wynberg-Allen School is a boarding school in India, founded in 1888. It is located at Bala hissar in Mussoorie, India. The alumni of Wynberg Allen School are known as Alwynians. History From a meeting in Kanpur in 1887 of friends, Mr. Powe ...

, Mussoorie * St Joseph's College, Nainital * Birla Vidya Mandir, Nainital * Welham Girls' School, Dehradun * Welham Boys' School, Dehradun *

St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun (SJA) is a co-educational Indian Certificate of Secondary Education school in Dehradun, the capital of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Founded in 1934, the school is governed by the Society of the Brothers of ...

Sainik School, Ghorakhal Sainik School, Ghorakhal is a Sainik School established by first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru in 1966. It is located in Ghorakhal, at an altitude of about above sea level amidst the Kumaon Hills in Nainital district of the stat ...

* Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie * Forest Research Institute, Dehradun * Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun *

Wildlife Institute of India The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous natural resource service institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India. WII carries out wildlife research in areas of stu ...

Dehradun * Indian Military Academy, Dehradun Forest_Research_Institute_campus,_Dehradun,_India

Higher education

Schools

References

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