Andhra Pradesh is served by more than 20 institutes of higher education. All major arts, humanities, science, engineering, law, medicine, business, and veterinary science are offered, with first degrees and postgraduation.
Andhra Pradesh has 1,330 arts, science and commerce colleges; 1,000 MBA and MCA colleges; 847 engineering colleges; 53 medical colleges. It also has NIT (in warangal), Indian Institute of Technology (in Hyderabad). The student to teacher ratio in higher education is 19:1. According to the 2011 census, Andhra Pradesh has an overall literacy rate of 67.02%. The male literacy rate is 74.9% and the female literacy rate is 59.15%.[101]
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has established Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) in 2008 to cater to the educational needs of the gifted rural youth of Andhra Pradesh.
The state has made strides in setting up several institutes. Some of them are:
- Osmania University
- University of Hyderabad
- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad,[102]
- International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H),[103]
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science
- Indian Institute of Biotechnology
- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad,[104]
- National Institute of Technology NIT Warangal,[105]
- National Institute of Nutrition[106]
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad
- Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University
- Nalsar University of Law
- National Institute of Rural Development,[107]
- School of Planning and Architecture
- Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,[108]
- Indian School of Business (ISB) and IFHE university's IBS, Hyderabad[109]
- National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
- Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition are also located in Hyderabad.
- Tata institute of social sciences Hyderabad.
Additionally the Dr. N.T.R. University of Health Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,[110] Osmania University,[111] Andhra University,[112] Nagarjuna University,[113]Kakatiya University,[114] Sri Venkateswara University,[115] Sri Krishnadevaraya University,[116] Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University,[117] Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University,Telangana University Nizamabad, Mahathma Gandhi University Nalgonda, Palamur University Mahaboobnagar, Rayalaseema university, Kurnool,[118] Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University(SVVU)[119] and private engineering colleges like Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, MVSR Engineering College, GRIET, Hyderabad Institute of Technology And Management[120] to serve their people across Andhra Pradesh.
Space Research[edit]
In 1969, Indian Space Research Organisation selected barrier island of Sriharikota in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh for a satellite launching station. Originally called Sriharikota Range (SHAR), an acronym ISRO have retained to the present day. The centre was renamed on 5 September 2002 after the death of ISRO's former chairman, prof Satish Dhawan as Satish Dhawan Space Centre. It is India's primary orbital launch site.
The SHAR has two launch pads. A new third launchpad will built specifically to meet the target of launching a manned space mission by 2017.[121] India's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 was launched from the centre at 6:22 AM IST on 22 October 2008.
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