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Colleges and Universities in India

India has been popular as an education and learning destination for centuries now. The country can easily boast of having some of the best universities that rank among the top globally - IIMs, AIIMS, ISB, IITs, NITs, IISc, Delhi University. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is supposed to have been placed in the 50th position in the world by Times Higher World University Rankings; The National Law School in Bangalore is also held in great esteem as some of its students are being awarded Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is consistently rated the top medical school in the country in particular and the world in general. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have a reputation of being the best business schools in the world. Indian School of Business, Hyderabad also finds itself among the best management schools in India.

After secondary education or high school, students move on to colleges in India to pursue higher education. Higher education in India involves many streams, where each stream is monitored by an apex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and funded by the state governments. There are 18 important universities, which are called Central Universities and are maintained by the Union Government. All the universities in India need to be accredited by law unless they have been created by an Act of Parliament. The universities that have no accreditation can be termed as fake universities.


On this page, we have tried to list the colleges and universities in India. We plan to pick up major Indian cities and list the colleges and universities there. As a student would like to know more the city where the colleges and universities are situated, we are providing basic and useful information about the cities, those information which students will look out for while deciding to study in some college or university in Delhi.

Please click on the links below to access the details about colleges, universities and locations in India-


Higher Education in India