Bagalkot District is an administrative district in the state of Karnataka and the district has the town of Bagalkot as its headquarters. The district is bordered by the Bijapur District, Raichur District, Gadag District and Belgaum district of the state of Karnataka on its four sides. In the year 1997, the new district of Bagalkot was carved out of the Bijapur District through a directive of the Government of Karnataka.

The current bifurcated district of Bagalkot includes six taluks namely Mudhol, Jamakahandi, Hunugund, Bilagi, Bagalkot and Badami.

Education in Bagalkot District:

According to a survey, there are 56 general colleges in Bagalkot District and one ayurvedic medical college as well. These 56 general colleges are spread over the six taluks of the district as 9 college in Mudhol, 8 colleges in Jamakahandi, 9 college in Hunugund, 3 colleges in Bilagi, 21 college in Bagalkot and 6 college in Badani. This number indicated above includes both government and private colleges functioning from the district of Bagalkot and the names of government colleges along functioning in the district are given below:

Education College:

• Government College of Education, Jamkhandi

First Grade Government Colleges:

• Government First Grade College, Bagalkot

• Government First Grade College, Hunagund

• Government First Grade College, Hunnur

• Government First Grade College, Ilkal

• Government First Grade College, Lokapur

• Government First Grade College, Mudhol

• Government First Grade College, Savalagi

• Government First Grade College, Terdal

• Government First Grade College, Badami

• Rudragouda Patil Government First Grade College, Bilagi

• Government First Grade Arts Commerce College for Women, Jamkhandi

For further details regarding these government colleges functioning from the district of Bagalkot, read on the content given below:

Education College:

Government College of Education, Jamkhandi is a co-education college offering courses with affiliation from Karnatak University and as the name implies the college offers Bachelor of Education course for preparing the future teachers, who can offer the best education.

First Grade Government Colleges:

All most all the first grade colleges functioning under the control of Government of Karnataka are affiliated to the Karnatak University located in Dharwad. These colleges offers arts, science and commerce education at the UG level and some of the subjects in which Bachelor of Arts and science are offered by the college are:

• Political Science

• Economics

• History

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Mathematics

• Kannada

• Computer Science

Some of these colleges also offer Bachelor of Business Management, Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Computer Applications courses as well.