Education
Culturally, Saharanpur district is similar to the rest of western Uttar Pradesh. It is home to the Paper and Pulp Technology Institute which is affiliated to the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (formerly Roorkee University) and Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute (Ministry of pulp and paper industry).
After losing the university-town of Roorkee to Uttarakhand state in 2000, the district has no fulfledged, comprehensive university with its own campus. However, several colleges in the district, affiliated to the Meerut University, conduct university level courses in a number of important science and arts subjects.
A project is under way now (as on 2009), to establish a medical college in Saharanpur: The Master Kanshi Ram Allopathic Government College.
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