Bihar has a long history of organized education. Once upon a time, Bihar has been a leader in the place of higher education. Vikramshila University of Nalanda and was sent to the two main centres of learning in India. Nalanda as a single window all treaties, including areas (art, architecture, painting, logic, grammar, philosophy, astronomy, literature, Buddhism, Hinduism, Arthashastra (economics and politics), law and medicine, arithmetic, theology, law, metaphysics, ethics) and hosted up to 10000 students at the top of his art. Students from China, Korea, Sri Lanka and Indonesia and all regions of India came to Nalanda and study Vikramshila uinversities

But today, both Bihar and Nalanda is reduced to ashes. The state is very inadequate in the field of quality technical facilities. Some universities, such as Birla Institute of Technology (BIT, Mesra Ranchi), Xavier working relationship and institutes (XLRI, Jamshedpur), Indian School of Mines (ISM, Dhanbad), National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT, Hatia, Ranchi), National Institute of Technology (NIT, Jamshedpur), Xavier Institute of Social Sciences (XISS, Ranchi) was awarded to Jharkhand. The lack of good technique, medicine, research, management and institutions, students Bihari go to other States like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, etc. The other reasons are lack opportunities of Bihar. Biharis, the authorization are many in the private engineering, medical universities, institutes and the hotel and in the south-west of India.

While we are on the necessity of learning in the temples of Bihar, we can see what happened in India in the field of higher education and research in India has received independence in 1947, then compare the statistics of Bihar. After obtaining the independence of India during the year 1947, their development in the field of higher education and research has increased considerably. Currently (data for 2001), there are currently 268 higher education institutions, from 50 to 12 universities and institutions of national importance and more than 11100 schools under the State Medium-and legislation. Of the 268 institutions of higher education are 18 universities, media, and the rest of the public universities.

In the field of nuclear energy program, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai and basic research in mathematics and physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), also in Mumbai are autonomous institutions. Both institutes are the limits of research in the fields.

In medical science, to name but a few examples, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, founded in 1956, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMR), Chandigarh, JIPMER, Pondicherry (1956) , AFMC, Pune, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Tiruvananthapuram, Tata Memorial Hospital and Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai, etc, implementation of curricula and research in all fields and has both as a leader of teaching and research with management major medical facilities.

The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), a unique institution dedicated to research, teaching and application of statistics, the nature and the social sciences. The headquarters of the ISI, is located in the northern outskirts of the metropolis of Calcutta. In addition, there are two centres in Delhi and Bangalore. The Institute has received the status of an institution of national importance by an act of Indian Parliament in 1959.