Panjab University, with its 46 teaching and research departments besides 10 Centres/Chairs for teaching and research on the main campus located at Chandigarh, has 150 affiliated colleges spread over Punjab and Chandigarh, Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Department of Vishweshavaranand Vishva Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies (VVBIS&IS) at Hoshiarpur.

The university has a department of Distance/Correspondence education that provides higher education facilities to those who are unable to enter the regular colleges for higher studies for some reasons. 

About Department of Correspondence Studies, PU

The Department of Correspondence Studies (formerly called as Directorate of Correspondence Courses), Panjab University, is a pioneer in offering higher education to the doorsteps of those men and women who have discontinued their formal education due to some reasons and wants to pursue higher education in his/her own field or in other fields for knowledge and efficiency.

The Department, at present, offers study programs which include Bachelor of Arts (Three Year Integrated Course), Bachelor of Commerce (Three Year Course), Bachelor of Library & Information Science (One Year Course), Master of Arts (annual system) in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Economics, History, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, Master of Commerce (Two Year Course, Annual System), Master of Finance & Control (MFC) (Two Year Course), Master of Education (M. Ed.) (For in-service teachers) (Two year Course), Diploma in (i) Post Graduate Diploma in Health, Family Welfare and Population Education (ii) Diploma in Statistics, (iii) One Year Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication (iv) Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) and Certificate Course in Vivekananda Studies.

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Contact:

The Chairman
Department of Correspondence Studies
Panjab University
Chandigarh - 160 014 India
Tel (Chairperson/Office): 253 4301, 253 4304