Editing Plovdiv (section)

==Education==
Around two thirds of the citizens (62,38%) have secondary, specialized, or higher education. That percentage increased from 1992 to 2001.<ref name="edu">{{dead link|date=August 2012}} {{cite web |url=http://www.pd.e-gov.bg/index.php?f=obstini&p=obstini&obst=plovdiv |title=Information for Plovdiv – Education |publisher=Pd.e-gov.bg |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706142802/http://www.pd.e-gov.bg/index.php?f=obstini&p=obstini&obst=plovdiv |archive-date=6 July 2011  }}</ref>

Plovdiv has 78 schools including elementary, high, foreign language, mathematics, technical, and art schools. There are also 10 private schools and a [[seminary]]. The number of pupils in 2005 was 36,964 and has been constantly decreasing since the mid-1990 due to lower birth rate.<ref name="edu"/> Among the most prestigious schools are the [[Plovdiv Language School]], the High School of Mathematics, the Ivan Vazov Language School, the [[Sts. Cyril and Methodius High School of Humanities, Plovdiv|Sts. Cyril and Methodius High School of Humanities]], the National School of Commerce, and the French High School.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://podtepeto.com/aktualno/top-10-na-gimnaziite-v-plovdiv/#google_vignette |title=Pod Tepeto-online media |date=12 June 2024 |publisher=podtepeto.com |access-date=7 July 2024}}</ref>

The city has six universities and a number of state and private colleges and branches of other universities. Those include [[Plovdiv University]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-plovdiv.bg |title=University of Plovdiv "Paisiy Hilendarski" |publisher=Uni-plovdiv.bg |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705111907/http://uni-plovdiv.bg/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with 900 lecturers and employees and 13,000 students; the [[Plovdiv Medical University]], with 2,600 students;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://meduniversity-plovdiv.bg/ |title=Medical University |publisher=Meduniversity-plovdiv.bg |date=29 June 2011 |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706143155/http://meduniversity-plovdiv.bg/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Medical College; the Technical University of Sofia{{spaced ndash}}Branch Plovdiv;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tu-plovdiv.bg |title=Technical University of Sofia, Plovdiv branch |publisher=Tu-plovdiv.bg |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327142400/http://www.tu-plovdiv.bg/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Agricultural University{{spaced ndash}} Plovdiv;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.au-plovdiv.bg |title=University of Agriculture |publisher=Au-plovdiv.bg |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706142718/http://www.au-plovdiv.bg/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the University of Food Technologies;<ref>[http://www.uft-plovdiv.bg/index_ie.htm University of Food Technologies]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410085650/http://www.uft-plovdiv.bg/index_ie.htm |date=10 April 2008 }}</ref> the Academy for Music, Dance and Fine Arts;<ref>[http://www.artacademyplovdiv.com/home_en.htm Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206104954/http://www.artacademyplovdiv.com/home_en.htm |date=6 December 2006 }}</ref> and others.<ref name="edu"/>

The 2009 [[International Olympiad in Informatics]] (IOI) was held at the [[Plovdiv University|University of Plovdiv "Paisiy Hilendarski"]], between 8 and 15 August 2009. The 2009 IOI Honorary Patron was [[President of Bulgaria|Bulgarian President]] [[Georgi Parvanov]].{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

Between 1875 and 1906, the [[Zariphios School]] was one of the local Greek educational institutions that provided elementary and secondary education.<ref>{{cite book | last1= Cornis-Pope | first1= Marcel | last2= Neubauer | first2= John | title= History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries | publisher= John Benjamins Publishing Company | year= 2006 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5pAwqsSyTlsC&q=%22zariphios%22&pg=PA143 | isbn= 978-960-98903-5-9 | page= 143 | access-date= 19 October 2020 | archive-date= 29 May 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210529150601/https://books.google.com/books?id=5pAwqsSyTlsC&q=%22zariphios%22&pg=PA143 | url-status= live }}</ref>