Education
After independence, Tamil Muslim entrepreneurs begun to create lot of schools and colleges. Jamal Mohamed College in Trichy, New College in Chennai, Waqf Board College in Madurai, are some of famous service based Tamil Muslim colleges. In mid 1980s, scores of Tamil Muslim self-financing educational institutions were started. Crescent Engineering College was upgraded to BS Abdur Rahman University. In Tamil Nadu, the school education of the Tamil Muslims is above-average compared to general literacy level. But in higher and technical education Tamil Muslims lag behind, due to entrepreneurial commitments and jobs in the Persian Gulf and south east Asia {mainly Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei}. But now the picture is changing slowly. There are over 65 Tamil Muslim educational institutions in Tamil Nadu.
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