Describe IGNOU.
The renowned Indira Gandhi National Open University is well-known for providing students with a wide range of online and remote learning opportunities. This university's mission is to provide excellent education at a fair price to all segments of the economy. The university was established in 1985. Among the greatest and oldest universities in India is IGNOU. The UGC and NAAC are recognized as being of an A-grade. Additionally, the university's accreditation was accepted by the AICTE and gained international recognition. IGNOU provides authentic courses and specializations in several fields.
The institution is widely known in around 67 regional areas, and there are 21 schools with excellent faculty members available to all students. Course offerings at the university span undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma, and qualification levels. IGNOU offers about 677 courses in various specializations.
An Overview of Regular Universities
Regular universities are ones where enrollment requirements must be met regularly for students to graduate from any course. The typical university provides classroom instruction and regular admissions. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Lovely Professional University, Indian Institute of Technical University, Thapar University, Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of Technology, and others are a few instances of ordinary universities. The purpose of these regular universities is to provide education to individuals who cannot or will not attend ordinary colleges.
Comparison Between IGNOU and Regular Universities
|
Criteria |
IGNOU |
Regular Universities |
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Reputation |
IGNOU is a well-known
university across Asia. |
Regular Universities also hold
a reputation. It depends upon the university. |
|
Location |
IGNOU has a pan-India presence
and also has study centres abroad. |
Regular Universities are
situated in a specific place from where you cannot get remote learning. |
|
Admission |
Aspirants can secure admission
in IGNOU courses either based on merit or through an entrance exam. IGNOU
accepts scores of entrance exams such as IGNOU OPENMAT, NCHMCT JEE etc to
offer admission to candidates in different courses offered by it. |
In the majority of the UG
level programmes offered by any regular university, candidates are offered
admission based on the cutoff. However, for the remaining UG and PG courses,
admission is offered based on a candidate’s performance in the entrance exams
conducted by different universities. |
|
Ease of Attending Classes |
IGNOU has its headquarters in
New Delhi but its study centres are spread all over the country as well as
abroad. Also, the university is now emerging into the online world and
offering online classes to the students. |
Candidates need to attend
regular classes by visiting the college by themselves to complete the course.
There is no option of taking online classes and doing self-learning when you
are admitted to any regular university. |
|
Study Material |
The study material provided as
part of IGNOU courses is vaster and contains all the information in an easy-to-understand
format so that the distance learners can do self-learning. |
Students need to buy their
study materials from outside of the university. They have the option of
learning from different writers. |
|
Fee |
Depending on the course
pursued by candidates the fee varies at IGNOU. But the fee range for IGNOU
courses is most affordable all over India according to the number of courses
offered by the university approximately from Rs 2,400 to Rs 64,800. |
Depending on the course
pursued by candidates the fee varies at regular universities. The fees range
of the regular universities is very high in comparison to open universities. |
|
Difficulty Level of Exams |
The level of difficulty of
questions asked is moderate in IGNOU exams and aspirants need to be thorough
with the subject at hand to perform well in the examinations conducted by the
varsity. IGNOU exam papers are evaluated. |
The level of difficulty of
questions asked in any exam conducted by regular universities are extremely
highly and apart from this, students often share that strict checking is done
by the teachers. |