Bangalore: tech parks and international schools

If you are moving back to Bangalore with a job and children, your address is really decided by two things: where you will work and where they will study. Everything else — the flat, the amenities, the builder — comes after those two points are fixed on a map. This guide lays out where employment is concentrating in 2026, which campuses are new or expanding, and where the international and IB schools sit, so you can pick a location that keeps both commutes sane.

For 2026. Employer plans, campus openings, and school details change; verify specifics directly before you commit.

Why this belongs in a property decision

Bangalore’s traffic makes distance expensive in a way that does not show up in a listing. A flat that looks ten kilometres from an office can be a 70-minute drive at 9 a.m. and again at 6 p.m. Add a school run in the opposite direction and a family can lose three hours a day to the road. The way to avoid that is to treat the office, the school, and the home as a triangle and keep the triangle small. That is only possible if you know where the jobs and the schools are before you fall for a specific building.

The employment map

Bangalore’s office market is the strongest in the country right now, and the new space is not spread evenly. It is landing in three zones.

East: the global-capability-centre belt

Whitefield and Sarjapur Road, joined by the Outer Ring Road, hold the largest concentration of technology employment and the biggest pipeline of new space. This is where multinationals put their India engineering and operations centres, and Sarjapur Road specifically is absorbing more new office capacity than any other Bangalore submarket. The established parks here — ITPB in Whitefield, the ORR clusters around Marathahalli and Bellandur, RMZ Ecoworld, Bagmane and Prestige campuses — are being joined by new phases rather than replaced. If your employer is a large tech multinational or a GCC, there is a strong chance your office is in this belt or moving into it.

North: the airport corridor

This is the growth story. The KIADB Aerospace Park near Devanahalli is a roughly 3,000-acre industrial zone next to the airport, built for aerospace and defence manufacturing, with SEZ benefits and a precision-engineering SEZ in the pipeline. Around it, large enterprise investments have been announced, including major new facilities and data-centre builds, and Prestige has a large technology park planned in the Devanahalli area for IT and R&D tenants. Karle Town Centre and the Manyata cluster anchor the Hebbal end. The catch, as with residential North Bangalore, is that the metro to the airport is still a few years out, so today the commute depends on the road.

The core and the south

The central business district and the CBD-adjacent parts of the ORR still hold plenty of employment, and the south — Electronic City with its long-established IT parks and Bannerghatta Road — remains a large base, well served by a metro line. Electronic City is the value option for a family that wants a short commute without eastern-belt prices.

The school map

Bangalore has one of the deepest benches of international and IB schools in India. The concentration follows the same logic as the offices, because schools are built where the families with the fees to pay them live. That means the eastern belt and the north have the most choice, with a cluster in the south as well.

How to read a school before you visit

• Curriculum. The IB continuum (PYP, MYP, DP) and Cambridge (IGCSE, A Level) are the two international tracks; many schools also offer CBSE or ICSE. If your child will finish schooling abroad again, IB or Cambridge travels better. If they will stay for Indian universities, an Indian board can be simpler.
• Fees. Top international schools in Bangalore run roughly 6 lakh to 14 lakh a year, with the best-known IB schools in the 3 lakh to 8 lakh band and premium campuses above that. Add one-time admission and building fees, transport, and meals.
• Admissions timing. The sought-after schools have waitlists and assess months ahead of the academic year. Start the application before you have a house, not after.
• Transport. Ask the actual door-to-door bus time for the neighbourhoods you are considering, not the distance. A 45-minute cap each way is a reasonable line to hold.

By zone

Sarjapur Road and the east have become the densest school corridor in the city. The International School Bangalore (TISB), Greenwood High, Inventure Academy, Indus International, Oakridge, and dual-campus schools such as Silver Oaks and OWIS (with sites at Whitefield and Sarjapur) are here or nearby. For a family working in the GCC belt, this is the tightest triangle available.

North Bangalore is anchored by Canadian International School in Yelahanka, with Stonehill International, Vidyashilp Academy, Mallya Aditi International, and Trio World Academy in the broader Yelahanka and Hebbal area. If your job is in the airport corridor, the school side of the triangle works.

Whitefield itself has Greenwood High’s original campus, Vibgyor, Chrysalis High, and Glentree, among others — useful if you want to live and work in Whitefield without going as far as Sarjapur.

South and central hold long-established names: Bishop Cotton, Sishu Griha, and international options along Bannerghatta Road and in Koramangala and Sarjapur’s southern approach.

Putting the triangle together

Work out the three points in this order. First, pin the office, or the most likely office if the job is not fixed yet, since that is the least flexible point. Second, shortlist two or three schools you would actually accept and check their real bus times to the neighbourhoods between the office and the school. Third, look for homes only in the overlap. In practice this tends to land people in one of a few places:

• Working in the eastern GCC belt: live in Whitefield, Varthur, Panathur, or along Sarjapur Road, with schools on the same axis.
• Working in the airport corridor: live in Yelahanka, Hebbal, or Jakkur, with the northern schools.
• Working in Electronic City or the south: live in HSR, Electronic City, or the southern ORR, with Bannerghatta Road and southern Sarjapur schools.

Trying to work in the east and school in the north, or the reverse, is the arrangement that eats the three hours a day. It is usually better to compromise on the flat than on the geometry. For how those corridors are priced and where the supply is, see the Bangalore market briefing.