New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has extended the last date of submitting the filled-in applications for admission to their various academic programs under the Common Prospectus, in the ensuing academic session, till July 15. The extension of date is done for admission to 129 programs mentioned in the Common Prospectus only, and not others. For all other programs, except the 129 covered under Common Prospectus, the last date remains the same i.e. June 30, as announced and extensively advertised earlier.
Mr K Laxman, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) for Students Registration Division (SRD), said that the Common Prospectus contains details about admission to 129 programs. The prospectuses of all other programs are issued by the respective schools of studies. IGNOU has 21 such schools. Prospectuses for all the programs will be available from the counters at Headquarters, IGNOU Regional Centres and Study Centres, spread across the country and abroad.
Indira Gandhi National Open University offers 40 programs for PhDs and MPhils. It also has 312 academic and professional programs for the destitute and willing learners. Many of these programs are run in collaboration with various industrial organisations, under Private-Public Partnership (PPP) schemes and educational institutions, both domestic and international. Moreover, these programs have been developed on the principles of need-based education and empowerment of the disadvantaged.
