Studying in India

Indian Education System

The Indian constitution expressly states a free education for all children ages 6 to 14 and establishes an education responsibility shared between the Central Government and the States. All levels of education are supervised by the Ministry of Human Resource Development through its Department of Higher Education and its Department of School Education and Literacy .

The educational levels before higher education are as follows:

• Pre-primary education: age 0 – 6
• Primary education: age 6 – 11
• Secondary education: age 11 – 15
• Higher secondary education: age 15 - 17
• "Information on the educational system: equivalences and grading scales" .

Higher Education System

The tertiary level of education in India consists of the following schooling institutions:

• Central Universities : 41
• States Universities: 318
• Private Universities within the States: 129
• Deemed to be Universities: 51. These are institutions that used to be colleges dependent on a university which, due to their growth in number of students and programs, are in the process of being established as universities.
• Institutions of National Importance which are ascribed to the Ministry of Human Resource Development , which includes 23 Indian Institutes of Technology , 31 National Institutes of Technology and 8 Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
• Colleges: 39,050 institutions of higher education which are adscribed to universities.