Chandel is one of the nine districts in the state of Manipur and the district came into existence in the year 1974 on the 13th of May. The district was given its present name as Chandel District in the year 1983 and the city of Chandel is acting as the capital of the district. There are more than 700 villages in this district and totally there are five taluks.

The district stands in the eighth place with respect to population in the state of Manipur and it stands in the second place with respect to number of villages in the state. Initially the district has three sub-divisions namely chakpikarong, Tengnaupal and Chadel and after its re-organization, it currently comprises of four sub-divisions namely Machi, Chakpikarong, Chandel and Moreh. When it comes to education, most of the colleges in the state of Manipur are affiliated to Manipur University. Chandel district also has a single college, which is affiliated to Manipur University. The name of the only college in the district of Chandel in Manipur, which is a government college is given below:

• United College, Chandel

Some of the details regarding this college is given below:

United College, Chandel:

United College came into existence in the year 1980 and initially the college began its functions as a private college. The college was converted as a full-fledged government college in the year 1996 on the 1st of June. Previously, the college was offering higher secondary and degree courses and later in the year 2009-2010, the higher secondary course was delinked from the college. The college is offering degree education in arts and science streams in the following subjects:

• Political science

• History

• Economics

• Education

• English

• Manipuri

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Botany

• Zoology

• Geology

• Mathematics

• Anthropology

The college has been able to change the life of higher education among the youth by generating a number of graduates of both science and arts stream during the several years of its existence. The college follows the best academic practices to offer the best education to the future generation thereby making them bright citizens of the future.

Thus, United College, which is the only government-run college in the district of Chandel offers the best quality education to the students thereby contributing towards the higher education requirements of not only the people of the district of Chandel, but also to the people belonging to the whole state of Manipur.