Primary and Secondary Education

    There are 13 lyceums and 6 professional education institutions (Romanian: colegii) offering the last 3 years of high school education and 2 years post-high school technical education. Also, 14 secondary schools (numbered 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23), 7 professional or professional-technical schools (numbered 1 through 7), and 3 boarding schools, including one for visually impaired are located in the city.

   Higher education

• Alecu Russo University of Bălţi
  
• The Alecu Russo University of Bălţi, the second largest university in Moldova, named after the 19th century Romanian scholar and ethnologist Alecu Russo. The university houses one of the biggest libraries in the South-Eastern Europe. It is a public university.
  
• The private Dniester Institute of Economy and Law
  
• The private Moldovan Branch of the non-governmental educational institution "Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law"
  
• The private Humanist Contemporary Institute
  
  

   These schools teach either in Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, English or are mixed. The latter case was inherited from the Soviet system, which provided for education in Russian and Romanian (Moldovan) languages, where mixed schools were created with the administration being carried out in both languages