List of Prime Minister of India and their educational qualifications
1. Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children call him Chacha Nehru.
Nehru went to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1907 and graduated with an honours degree in natural science in 1910. During this period, he also studied politics, economics, history, and literature with little interest. After completing his degree in 1910, Nehru moved to London and studied law at the Inner temple. During this time, he continued to study the scholars of the Fabian Society including Beatrice Webb.
2. Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was the second Prime Minister of India. His famous slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" ("Hail to the soldier; Hail to the farmer") became very popular during the war Indo-Pakistan War of 1965.
He studied in East Central Railway Inter College and Harish Chandra High School, which he left to join the non-cooperation movement. In 1925 he completed Philosophy and Ethics from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith. Shastri's thoughts were influenced by reading about Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Annie Besant. Deeply impressed and influenced by Gandhi.
3. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) She was the 3rd and first only female Prime Minister of India. Rabindranath Tagore named her Priyadarshini, literally "looking at everything with kindness" in Sanskrit, and she came to be known as Indira Priyadarshini Nehru.
Indira Gandhi was taught mostly at home by tutors and attended school intermittently until matriculation. She was a student at the Modern School in Delhi, St Cecilia's and St Mary's Christian convent schools in Allahabad, the International School of Geneva, the Ecole Nouvelle in Bex, and the Pupils Own School in Poona and Bombay, which is affiliated with the University of Mumbai. She went on to study at the Vishwa Bharati in Santiniketan, which became Visva-Bharati University.
A year later it was decided that Indira would continue her education at the University of Oxford. She attends Somerville College to study history. At Oxford, she did well in history, political science, and economics. But she returns to India without completing her studies at Oxford.
4. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was the 4th Prime Minister of India.
Morarji Desai underwent his primary schooling in The Kundla School (now called J.V. Modi School), Savarkundla, and later joined Bai Ava Bai High School, Valsad. After BA (Honors) graduation from Wilson College.
5. Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was the 5th Prime Minister of India. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.
The University of Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh, India is named after him (Chaudhary Charan Singh University). He was a good student and received a Masters of Arts degree in 1925 and a Law degree in 1926 from Meerut University.
6. Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was the 6th Prime Minister of India and the youngest Prime Minister.
He was admitted to the Welham Boys School, Dehradun, and Doon, Dehradun. Rajiv was sent to London to study A-levels. Rajiv was also educated at the Ecole D’Humanite an international boarding school in Switzerland. He studied engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not obtain a degree. He began a course in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London but did not complete it either. Gandhi really was not studious enough; as he went on to admit later.
7. Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), also known as V. P. Singh was and 7th Prime Minister of India. He is India's only prime minister to have been a former ruler.
He obtained his education from Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun, and got his Bachelor of Arts and Law degree from Allahabad University. He was the elected the vice president of Allahabad University Students Union and later received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Fergusson College in the Pune University.
8. Chandra Shekhar Singh (1 July 1927 – 8 July 2007) was the eighth Prime Minister of India. He is the first Indian Prime Minister who has never held any Government office.
He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (graduate) degree at Satish Chandra P.G. College. He attended Allahabad University, obtaining his master's degree in political science. He was known as a firebrand in student politics and started his political career with Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. After he had completed his graduation, he became active in socialist politics.
9. Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was the 9th Prime Minister of India. He is often referred to as the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms". Narasimha Rao was popularly known as PV.
He studied at Fergusson College and at the Universities of Mumbai and Nagpur where he obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in law. He could speak 17 languages including Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, and Oriya with a fluency akin to a native speaker. His mother tongue was Telugu. In addition to eight Indian languages, he spoke English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, and Persian.
10. Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was the 10th Prime Minister of India. He was the first Indian prime minister not of the Indian National Congress to serve a full term in office.
He was also noted as a poet and a writer. Vajpayee did his schooling at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Gwalior. In 1934, he was admitted to the Anglo-Vernacular Middle (AVM) School in Barnagar, Ujjain district, after his father joined as headmaster. He subsequently attended Gwalior's Victoria College (now Maharani Laxmi Bai Govt. College of Excellence) to study for a BA in Hindi, English, and Sanskrit. He completed his post-graduation with an MA in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur.
11. Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997) was the 11th Prime Minister of India.
A Civil Engineering diploma holder Diploma in Civil Engineering L.V. Polytechnic.
12. Inder Kumar Gujral (4 December 1919 – 30 November 2012) was the 12th Prime Minister of India.
Gujral's hobbies included poetry.
He studied at DAV College; Attain Hailey College of Commerce. And also went to Forman Christian College.
13. Manmohan Singh (2004 to 2014) was the 13th prime Minister of India.
He studied at Hindu College. He attended Punjab University, then in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, studying Economics and got his bachelor's and master's degrees, standing first throughout his academic career. He completed his Economics Tripos at the University of Cambridge as he was a member of St John's College. After Cambridge, Singh returned to India and served as a teacher at Punjab University. he went to the University of Oxford for the DPhil, where he was a member of Nuffield College.
14. Narendra Damodardas Modi (2014 – Till Date) was the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence.
Narendra Modi completed BA in Political Science from the School of Open Learning from the University of Delhi and an MA in Political Science from Gujarat University.
