


Apart from being a spiritual city Varanasi is renowned as a great center of education and learning since ancient time. Varanasi is also called as "Sarva Vidya Ki Rajdhani" (capital of knowledge).Varanasi is a hub to lot of educational institutes of repute like Banaras hindu University (B.H.U), Sampurna Nanad Sanskrit University, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidya Peeth, U P College and Central Institute of Tibetan Studies.
As Varanasi the oldest city of Asia is well known as holy city due to its temples and so much crowd of visitors, pilgrim and famous rivers and Ghats it also known as "Sarva Vidya Ki Rajdhani" the center of education and learning. The first step in the direction of establishing formal educational institute in Varanasi goes back to 1791, when a Sanskrit college was started to train the servants of the East India Company In this city there are lot of people came from whole of the world for learn philosophy, Sanskrit, astrology, modern sciences and social science from the ancient past.
In the city a wall known University that is BHU (Banaras Hindu University) is a center of education. Apart form that there are other universities like Sampurnanad Sanskrit University, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidya Peeth, U P College and Central Institute of Tibetan Studies where many people came form all of the world for their education.
Varanasi city has a number of colleges, which provide a great platform for higher education in the field of engineering, arts and social science, law, commerce, medical science, journalism etc. Here is complete and updated information on various colleges in Varanasi city. Some of the collages are listed below
Medical Colleges of Varanasi:
- Institute of Medical Sciences (B.H.U)
Educational Institutes of Varanasi
