Mongolia country information

Illiteracy was virtually eliminated, in part through the use of seasonal boarding schools for children of nomadic families. Funding to these boarding schools was cut in the 1990s, contributing to slightly increased illiteracy.

Primary and secondary education formerly lasted ten years, but was expanded to eleven years. Since the 2008-2009 school year, new first graders are using the twelve year system. As such, full transition to the twelve year system will no happen until the 2019-2020 school year, when the current first graders graduate.

Mongolian national universities are mainly spin-offs from the National University of MongoliaMongolian University of Science and Technology. The broad liberalization of the 1990s led to a boom in private institutions of higher education, although many of these establishments have difficulty living up to the standards implied by their name of "college" or "university".