Nanded Education

Nanded is a notable education center of Marathwada with reputable educational institutions. The city has Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, two engineering colleges, a medical college and other degree colleges. These institutions are catering to multi-discipline studies; medicine, law, engineering, management studies, agriculture sciences and even Ayurvedic medicine. The students from nearby cities prefer the well established educational institutions of Nanded. Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University. The University, named on one the great scholar Ramanand Teerth was founded in the year 1994. Today it has attained the status of State University with more than 150 colleges affiliated to it. The University has more than a dozen faculties and the campus is spread over hundreds of acres of land on the fringes of the city of Nanded. It has more than twenty thousand student and teaching staff on the campus itself. The campus has all the modern facilities for its students including a well developed sports complex. Guru Gobind Singh College of Engineering and Technology.  The college was setup in the year 1981 with the aid of the Government of Maharashtra. The college has now been granted full autonomous status to manage its financial, academic and administrative aspects. The college is located on a fifty acre land donated by the Gurudwara Trust. Today it has almost all the disciplines of Engineering Studies. The college is conducting postgraduate and doctorate level programs also. Mahatma Gandhi Missions College of Engineering, better known as MGM is a comparatively new college with beautifully landscaped lawns and refreshing building design. The small college campus of 20 acres has been effectively utilized to house maximum facilities. The college was started in 1991 and has Civil, Mechanical and IT engineering departments. The college has an intake of about four hundred students each year. Government Medical College was setup in 1988 with an intake capacity of fifty students per year. The college is the most sought after in the region. It has a fully developed cancer research facility also. Nanded has a Government Ayurvedic college for teaching the ancient Hindu science of herbal medicine and the art of Yoga. The other colleges with humanities, science, commerce and other generic graduate programs are Peoples College and Science College Nanded. Sharada Bhavan Education Society and Pratibha Niketan College have programs for education and empowerment of rural women. Many NGOs are working for imparting basic literacy to the rural women in the Marathwada region. Apart from the higher education, the city deserves a mention for a large number of primary and secondary education facilities. Nanded district has more than one hundred primary schools, 90 upper primary and 70 secondary / higher secondary schools. It is not a mean figure for a city of less than half a million people. The fabulous education infrastructure has immensely contributed to the city’s average literacy rate of 81 percent; with the female literacy rate of 73 percent the city occupies the top spot in the state.