Mumbai is situated within the West Coast of India, as well as it being the capital of Maharashtra, it plays an important part within the global economics system. Bombay as the city was previously known as, up until 1995 is also known as an alpha world city and has the largest number of millionaires and billionaires across India, with it therefor being noted as the wealthiest city in India. Mumbai is home to around 18.4 million people and is regarded as the second largest metropolitan population within India as of the record in 2011 with 20.7 million people. Schools and Colleges within Mumbai can be found within the city as well as the suburbs and are either run privately, by the government or the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Secondary schools are operated by the MCGM primary education system to which it is schooling around 485,531 students in 1,188 primary schools and around 55,576 students in 49 secondary schools within eight different languages these being English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati and Telugu. Colleges offer students opportunities to participate within Junior college level, undergraduate level, BCom, BSc and BA courses. As stated by the 10+2+3/4 plan students complete ten years at school to then go on to a junior college and study either science, commerce or arts and they complete that over a two year period. University courses at a degree level are offered in a wide range of different subjects such as engineering, law, media, applied arts and architecture, management, dental, pharmacy as well as Commerce and Science. There are a few universities and colleges within Mumbai and these are the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), SNDT Women’s University, Government Law college, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Narsee Monejee Institute of Management Studies, Sir J. J. School of Art which is the oldest art institution within Mumbai along the Thadomal Shahani Engineering College which is also the oldest private engineering college and the first of its kind to join up with the University of Mumbai to be able to give students the chance to learn about the biomedical engineering, computer engineering, biotechnology and information technology. The University of Mumbai is regarded to be one of the premier universities within India with achievements such as being placed within the top 50 engineering schools of the world ranking at 41 by the American Business Insider within 2013 as well as excelling as the 3rd best multi-disciplinary university within the QS university rankings within India.
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