Editing Kandahar (section)

==Education==
{{Further|Education in Afghanistan}}
[[File:School children watch members of Afghan National Security Force and Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team.jpg|thumb|Children from the Zarghona Ana High School watch members of [[Afghan National Security Force]] and Kandahar [[Provincial Reconstruction Team]] prepare for the Kandahar Nursing and Midwifery Institute grand opening ceremony in 2012.]]
Before the 1978 coup in Kabul, majority of the city's population were enrolled in schools.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} Nearly all of the elite class of the city fled to neighboring Pakistan during the early 1980s, and from there they began immigrating to North America, Europe, [[Afghan Australian|Australia]] and other parts of the world.

The two oldest known schools are Ahmad Shah Baba High School and Zarghona Ana High School. There are a number of new schools that opened in the last decade, with more being built in the future as the city's population grows with the large returning Afghans from neighboring countries. [[Afghan Turk High Schools]] is one of the top private schools in the city.

The main university is the [[Kandahar University]]. A number of private higher education institutions have also opened in the last decade such as Benawa Institute of Higher Education, Mirwais Neeka Institute of Higher Education, Malalay Institute of Higher Education and Saba Institute of Higher Education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://counselorcorporation.com/benawa-institute-of-higher-education/|title=Benawa Institute of Higher Education &#124; Tuition &#124; Admission – Counselor Corporation|date=8 July 2020|access-date=28 July 2021|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728173647/https://counselorcorporation.com/benawa-institute-of-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://counselorcorporation.com/mirwais-neeka-institute-of-higher-education/|title=Mirwais Neeka Institute of Higher Education – Counselor Corporation|date=19 September 2020|access-date=28 July 2021|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728173650/https://counselorcorporation.com/mirwais-neeka-institute-of-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://counselorcorporation.com/saba-institute-of-higher-education/|title=Saba Institute of Higher Education &#124; Fee & Academics – Counselor Corporation|date=27 September 2020|access-date=28 July 2021|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728173644/https://counselorcorporation.com/saba-institute-of-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://counselorcorporation.com/malalay-university/|title=Malalay University &#124; Tuition and Fees &#124; Academics – Counselor Corporation|date=19 September 2020|access-date=28 July 2021|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728173644/https://counselorcorporation.com/malalay-university/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The adult literacy rate ratio was 16.8% in 2012.[https://knoema.com/atlas/Afghanistan/Kandahar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317222205/https://knoema.com/atlas/Afghanistan/Kandahar |date=17 March 2023 }}