Indira Gandhi National Open University
Established In
1985
Located In
Delhi
Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a Central University located at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. Named after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of ₹20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 (IGNOU Act 1985).IGNOU is run by the central government of India, and with a total active enrollment of over 4 million students, it is the largest university in the world.
IGNOU was founded to serve the Indian population using distance and open education, providing quality higher education opportunities to all segments of society. It also aims to encourage, coordinate and set standards for distance and open education in India, and to strengthen the human resources of India through education. Apart from teaching and research, extension and training form the mainstay of its academic activities. It also acts as a national resource center and serves to promote and maintain standards of distance education in India.IGNOU hosts the Secretariats of the SAARC Consortium on Open and Distance Learning (SACODiL) and the Global Mega Universities Network (GMUNET), initially supported by UNESCO.
IGNOU has started a decentralization process by setting up five zones: north, south, east, west, and northeast. The first of the regional headquarters, catering to four southern states, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep, is being set up on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.[citation needed] The Ministry of Education has entrusted the responsibility of developing a Draft Policy on Open and Distance Learning and Online Courses to IGNOU.[10] IGNOU also partners with other organizations to launch courses. IGNOU offers a BBA in Retail distance learning course in association with the Retailers Association of India (RAI).
Recently, the university has implemented the CBCS method the various bachelor’s degree courses including BA, BAVTM, BCOM, BSC, and others. As per the new CBCS system, the examination will be conducted through the semester system that was earlier.
MA -Sustainability science
MA -Distance education
MA -Rural development
MA -English
MA -Journalism, and Mass communication.
MA -Translation studies.
MA -Hindi
MA -Gandhi and Peace studies.
M.com -Master of Commerce
MBA -Master of Business Administration
MCA -Masters in Computer Application
BSW -Bachelor Degree Programme in Social Work
BCA – Bachelors’s in Computer Application
B.COM – Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Library and information sciences.
Bachelor of Tourism.
Diploma in Creative writing in English
PG- Diploma in development communication.
PG- Diploma in Digital media.
PG- In distance education
PG- Rural development
PG- Environmental and occupational health.
PG- Sustainability science
PG- In the Urdu language
PG- Nutrition and Health Education
PG- Gandhi and Peace studies
PG- Tourism studies.
NEW DELHI: Indira Gandhi National Open University has been ranked 17th among the universities of the Indian subcontinent.
“IGNOU has been ranked 17th competing with institutions like IIMs, IITs, AIIMS, Banaras Hindu University, University of Delhi and the various other open universities of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh,” an IGNOU release said.
The institutions were classified based on their website, number of files, number of papers published in a year, and records in google scholar.
Link visibility, number of citations to papers in the IST database, and number of visits to the web domains are the other criteria for determining the ranking, the release said.
The ranking is being published since 2004 based on web data as an indicator of the visibility and impact of the activities of universities, colleges, and research institutions worldwide.
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