Karnataka State Open University is a separation learning college established in 1996, situated in Mysore, Karnataka, India. Karnataka State Open University was formally settled on 1 June 1996 under the Karnataka State Open University Act of 1992, with the targets of presenting and advancing the arrangement of open college and separation learning in the territory of Karnataka, and organizing and deciding the standard of such a framework in the state.

The distance education programs of Karnataka State Open University give chances to working experts who can't manage the cost of full-time training to acquire degrees or certificates. The Karnataka State Open University initially began as the Institute of Correspondence Course and Continuing Education, a wing of University of Mysore. The Karnataka State Open University is the eighth Open University to be set up in India.

Be that as it may, first time ever, this college has not been perceived by UGC for extreme irregularities.The programs offered by KSOU, Mysuru, have not been perceived by UGC past 2012-13.

Academics

Beginning off on an exceptionally unassuming quality of understudies in 1996, the Karnataka State Open University today charges a stunning quality of more than 40,000 understudies from all finished India. It works through 13 offices oversaw by 57 very much qualified employees, and its system of Study Centers keeps on growing quick, ideal over the province of Karnataka. The college has started a few goal-oriented projects on its foundation front to encourage quick acknowledgment of its vision of a "virtual college", including the current dispatch of Web Virtual Classroom based MBA programs with an accomplice Institute.

It now offers far reaching programs prompting degrees from the graduate level to the doctoral level and furthermore offers an assortment of confirmation and endorsement programs. The college is currently during the time spent presenting multi-level, between connected projects in data innovation, aside from a few particular projects in various zones of contemporary esteem and enthusiasm, in a joint effort with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

Campus

Karnataka State Open University is arranged in a region of 36 sections of land along the Mysore-Mangalore expressway, in the Manasagangotri grounds of the University of Mysore, in Mysore city. It is around 5 km. from the downtown area and has an air in a perfect world suited for scholastic interests. The college central command houses the authoritative workplaces, the scholarly piece, address lobbies, an all around prepared library, a couple of cabins for understudies coming to Mysore for examinations and contact projects, and all the vital luxuries, for example, post-office, bank and bottle

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