Latur is one of the important districts in the state of Maharashtra well-known for the quality of education offered, oil mills, food-grain trade and administration. For the past several years, the city and the district of Latur has emerged as a strong educational hub for university, higher secondary and secondary education in the state of Maharashtra.

When talking about overall educational development of the state of Maharashtra, students of this district has always acquired top positions in the state level and central level examinations. Most of the colleges operating in this city are affiliated to the Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University. The names of government colleges functioning in the city of Latur are given below:

Medical College:

• Government Medical College, Latur

Agricultural College:

• Government College of Agriculture

Polytechnic Colleges:

• P.L. Government Polytechnic

• Government Residential Women’s Polytechnic

To know more about these colleges, read on the content given below:

Medical College:

Government Medical College, Latur came into existence in the year 2002 and the college is offering medical education with affiliation from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences located in Nashik. The college is one among the top 10 medical colleges in the whole state of Maharashtra and the Medical Council of India has permitted the college to admit 100 students per year for the MBBS course. Apart from MBBS course, the college offers MD in different branches of medicine like

• Preventive & social medicine

• Physiology

• Pharmacology

• Pathology

• Obstetrics & gynecology

• Microbiology

• General medicine

• Forensic medicine

The college also offers MS in anatomy course in addition to MBBs and MD in different disciplines of medicine.

Agricultural College:

Government College of Agriculture, which is a constitute unit of Marathwada Agricultural University came into existence in the year 1987. The colleges of Bachelor of Science in agriculture, apart from Master of Science in Agriculture with six different specializations being

• Agricultural economics

• Soil science & agricultural chemistry

• Plant pathology

• Entomology

• Botany

• Agronomy

The college also offers PG courses in dairy sciences, animal husbandry, horticulture and agricultural meterology & extension education.

Polytechnic Colleges:

The full name of P.L. Government Polytechnic is Puranmal Lahoti Government Polytechnic and this college came into existence in the year 1956 and the college offers the following diploma courses with an intake capacity of 60 students per course:

• Diploma in

o Information technology

o Computer engineering

o Electronics engineering

o Electrical engineering

o Civil engineering

o Mechanical engineering

Government Residential Women’s Polytechnic is shortly referred to as GRWPL and the college holds the pride of being the first women’s college in Maharashtra that came into existence in the year 1994. The college offers diploma courses under the following departments:

• Science

• Dress designing

• Medical electronics

• Electronics

• Computers

The college is popular among the students of Maharashtra for its outreach programs.

These colleges not only offer the best education, but the campuses of these colleges are also known for the best infrastructural facilities and good learning ambiance offered to the students.