HI I am interested in having the information about Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) as well as the information about regional centres and the different schools though which courses are offered?

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), set up by an Act of Parliament in 1985, has consistently endeavored to fabricate a comprehensive learning society through comprehensive instruction. It has attempted to expand the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) by offering brilliant educating through the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode.

The University started by offering two scholarly projects in 1987, i.e., Diploma in Management and Diploma in Distance Education, with a quality of 4,528 understudies.

Today, it serves the instructive goals of more than 3 million understudies in India and different nations through 21 Schools of Studies and a system of 67 local focuses, around 2,667 learner bolster focuses and 29 abroad accomplice establishments. The University offers around 228 endorsement, recognition, degree and doctoral projects, with a quality of almost 810 employees and 574 scholarly staff at the base camp and provincial focuses and around 33,212 scholastic instructors from traditional foundations of higher learning, proficient associations, and industry among others.

The order of the University is to:

Give access to advanced education to all sections of the general public;

Offer astounding, creative and require based projects at various levels, to each one of the individuals who require them;

Contact the burdened by offering programs in all parts of the nation at reasonable expenses; and

Advance, arrange and control the norms of training offered through open and separation learning in the nation.

To accomplish the twin goals of enlarging access for all areas of society and giving consistent expert improvement and preparing to all divisions of the economy, the University utilizes an assortment of media and most recent innovation in granting instruction.

Regionl Centres are set up regularly with collaboration and support of the separate State Governments. The point of view plan is to give one Regional Center to each state in the nation.

Elements of Regional Centre

The Regional Center has been characterized under Section 2(J) of the IGNOU Act as under: "Territorial Center" means a Center built up or kept up by the University with the end goal of organizing and administering the work of the Study Centers in any area and for performing such different capacities as might be given on such Center by the Board of Management (BoM).

Schools

School of Agriculture (SOA)

School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)

School of Continuing Education (SOCE)

School of Education (SOE)

School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)

School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)

School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)

School of Gender and Development Studies (SOGDS)

School of Health Sciences (SOHS)

School of Humanities (SOH)

School of Inter-Disciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITS)

School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)

School of Law (SOL)

School of Management Studies (SOMS)

School of Performing and Visual Arts (SOPVA)

School of Sciences (SOS)

School of Social Sciences (SOSS)

School of Social Work (SOSW)

School of Tourism and Hospitality Service Management (SOTHSM)

School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)

School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)

Address:

Indira Gandhi National Open University
(A central university under MHRD, established by an act of Indian Parliament)
Maidan Garhi,
New Delhi-110068,