Higher Education
There are about 500,000 university students in NCT Delhi attending around more than 165 universities and colleges. Most of the students come from different states of India to pursue better quality of education with modern facilities. Delhi has seven major universities:
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute,Pusa,New Delhi,Premier institute for agricultural research and education in India,http://www.iari.res.in/
- University of Delhi: Most prominent, Indian central university.
- Jawaharlal Nehru University: Central university for third world studies.
- Jamia Millia Islamia: Central university with campus at South Delhi.
- Ambedkar University Delhi: State university.
- Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University: State university.
- National Law University, Delhi: State law university.
- Indira Gandhi National Open University: World's largest National university.
- Jamia Hamdard: Deemed university, basically for Unani system of medicines.
Beside that Delhi has nine other deemed universities.
Read more about this topic: Education In Delhi
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