Schools in Gandhinagar are affiliated with the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board. Under the 10+2+3 plan, students complete ten years of schooling, and then enroll for two years in Junior College, where they choose from one of three streams: Arts, Commerce or Science. This is followed by either a general degree course in a chosen field of study, or a professional degree course, such as law, engineering, medicine etc.

A large number of educational institutes are set up in Gandhinagar. This is due to a combination of two factors - the scarcity of land to expand campuses in Ahmedabad and the policy of the Gujarat government to establish a knowledge corridor in Gandhinagar.

The[institute of petroleum management-GSPC] National Institute of Fashion Technology and the National Institute of Design were given land to set up bigger campuses in Gandhinagar. The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology were set up in the city in 2001 by Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector company. In 2003, the Gujarat National Law University was established in the city on the lines of the prestigious National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

The Institute for Plasma Research is the foremost scientific research organisation in Gandhinagar. The institute was shifted to its present day campus in Gandhinagar in 1998 and is leading plasma physics research centre in India, another research institute comes into existence by inaugrated by President APJ Abdul Kalam is Indian Institute for Advanced Research Koba Gandhinagar. The Indian Institute for Advanced Research is concerened with biotechnology based advanced research. Key Areas of Research are Human Health and Disease, Plant Sciences, Biomolecular Medicine & Industrial Biotechnology and Bioinformatics & Structural Biology.