Taizhou has four higher-education institutions, i.e. Taizhou College, Taizhou Broadcast and TV University, Taizhou College of Vocational Technologies and Taizhou College of Vocational Science and technology. The city has forty-three province-recognized key middle schools. Ten of them including Taizhou High School are province-recognized grade-1 key middle schools. Taizhou also has sixteen key vocational and technological schools at the provincial level and above, including eleven province-recognized grade-1 key vocational schools. In the city there are  1278 kindergartens, 600 primary schools, 221 middle schools, 130 high schools (general and vocational) and 4 colleges.