Center for Distance Education

Mangalore University has launched Correspondence Education Programmes as per the National Education Policy in order to reach higher education to all sections of the society. The objectives of these programmes are:

• Promote higher education through non-formal means, specifically through correspondence mode.

• Promote the concept of correct intelligence among students and teachers.

• Establish networking of learners and knowledge practitioners by means of Information and Communication Technology.

• Take such courses to the doors of socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society.

• Collaborate with national and international educational organizations to promote excellence in non-formal education.

• Export quality higher education through communication networks.

• Encourage disadvantaged and weaker sections to acquire essential skills, information and knowledge to cope with the demands of emerging new professions in a fast changing global society.

• Perform such other functions as and when specified/prescribed by the University.