Education
Dera Ghazi Khan has a literacy rate of 60 percent, which is relatively high as compared to the national level. Due to non-availability of adequate higher education facilities locally, most of the students move to colleges and universities located in other cities of Punjab. In the past few years, there has been rapid growth in terms of institutions for higher and technical education. Dera Ghazi Khan has produced well-known scientists, educationalists and scholars in different domains. The city is famous for its doctors and engineers usually working in the big cities of Pakistan due to lack of opportunities in this small city until recently.
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