A campus of the Agriculture University was to be built in Hangu, but the project is still pending, as the funds were allegedly transferred to Charsadda by the ANP provincial government.

Recently the government degree college Hangu start BS Hons 4-year program under Kohat University of Science and Technology.

Two Government Degree colleges for boys and girls and a number of Private institutes are serving well in promoting education in the area.

It was later discovered that the militants came from Darra Adamkhel, a town between Peshawar and Kohat with a thriving arms industry.

[7] On 10 December 2010, a suicide bomber killed eleven people (including two policemen, a woman and a child) and injured another twenty-two.

[10] On Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 15-year-old student Aitzaz Hasan sacrificed himself after stopping a suicide bomber from entering his school.