Education
Jorhat is considered a good place for modern education. The Jorhat Government Boys School is the oldest school established in 1883 with special facilities for Science teaching. The Jagannath Barooah College is the oldest College in the district set up in 1930 and said to be first college and in upper Assam. Later, however many degree colleges and schools came up. The people of Jorhat can rightly be proud of being a part of its glorious heritage and culture. Other schools are Carmel, Balya Bhavan, Hemalata Handique Memorial Institute, Don Bosco, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bahona Boys High School and many more.
Jorhat is the seat of learning with a first and only agricultural university in the whole N.E. Region - Assam Agricultural University, established in 1948 in addition to the Jorhat Engineering College (1960), Regional Research Laboratory, now known as NEIST, Prince of Wales Institute Of Engineering & Technology (POWIET) (1926), Tocklai Experimental Station (1911) along with other prestigious establishment like Rowriah IAF Base, ONGC, Oil India, etc.
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