page_title: Education in Delhi
section_title: Higher education
hierarchical_section_title: Education in Delhi / Higher education
caption_attribution_description: English: Gulistan-e-Ghalib which has the statue of Mirza Ghalib
context_page_description: Education is based on three-tier model which includes primary schools, followed by secondary schools and tertiary education at universities or other institutes of same level. Education Department of the Government of Delhi is a premier body which looks into the educational affairs.the RTE right to education also describes children from the age of 6 to 14 have to cumpulsolarily need to be educated. 25% of the seats in all private schools are also reserved for the under-privileged children. Tertiary education is administrated by the Directorate of Higher Education.
context_section_description: There are about 500,000 university students in Delhi NCR attending around more than 165 universities and colleges.
  Delhi has fourteen major universities:
  University of Delhi: Central university
  Indian Institute of Foreign Trade: One of the leading Business schools of India which is established by Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India).
  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  Aiipphs University, Self-Government Autonomous University, Delhi.
  Jamia Millia Islamia: Central university
  Delhi Technological University: State university
  Netaji Subhas University of Technology: State University
  Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women: State university
  Jawaharlal Nehru University: Central university
  Ambedkar University Delhi: State university
  Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University: State university
  National Law University: State law university
  Indira Gandhi National Open University: World's largest national university.
  Jamia Hamdard: Deemed university
  indian statistical institute: Deemed university
caption: Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in Delhi
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