La Ceiba - Education

Education

La Ceiba is home to many public schools, among the largest is Escuela Francisco Morazán along Avenida San Isidro, which is considered the main street of the city. Instituto Manuel Bonilla is the largest public High School in the City with over 5,000 registered students.

There are also many private schools in La Ceiba. It is also home to many other private bilingual education schools, which offer education in both Spanish and English. Most of these offer both a Honduran Bachillerato Diploma (equivalent of High School diploma) and a U.S. accredited High School diploma. These schools usually offer grades 1 - 11/12 with some offering pre-school education.

The first university in the city was the Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Atlántico (often called CURLA), which is a public University run by the larger Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH). The first private university to open in the city was Univerisidad Tecnologica de Honduras(UTH), which opened in 1995. At the time the college only offered night classes, using the classrooms in a local private high school. In 2002 the college built their own campus. 2002 also marked the opening of the Universidad Catolica de Honduras, run by the Catholic church. Additionally, development of a new campus in La Ceiba for the Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana - UNITEC is currently under way as of 2008.