The Union Territory of Chandigarh comes under the administrative control of central government. The Chandigarh city with government administrative offices of two states Punjab and Haryana is a well-developed educational paradise. Known for its excellent architecture, and high standard of living, Chandigarh offers better educational opportunities to all its residents as well as migrants from other places.  

Education in Chandigarh is available right from pre primary level to graduate, postgraduate and research level. Chandigarh has both types of institutions – institutions for providing education in general arts, commerce and sciences disciplines and technical institutions for providing vocational and higher technological education.

Parents living in Chandigarh either residents or migrants won’t require to worry for their kids’ education as the city has several good quality primary and secondary schools. These schools are either affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or with Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE), few schools are affiliated to state boards of Haryana and Punjab.

Chandigarh is a satellite town; you may find a school within the one-kilometer radius of your residence. For the kids below 5 years of age there are number of nursery teaching schools; these schools prepares for attending primary school and offer great benefits to those kids whose both parents or either working or not able to guide them so as to fit in present days’ education scenario. There are government schools, government added schools and private schools for providing education at school level.

For providing higher education, higher technical education and vocational education Chandigarh has both type of institutions i.e., government and private. The education headed by Education Secretary. The department looks after the education administration in the city under a definite charter fixed by the government.

ChandigarhEducation.Net is an initiative of National Network of Education (NNE), to provide all the information about education scenario in the Chandigarh City. Our team strives hard to collect all the information about schools, colleges and other teaching / training institutions available in the city and made available the same for your use here. For details please browse through different sections of this website.