UGC: A rise in registration for online degree

Tweet by UGC Chaiman “Online programmes provide a window of opportunity to many students who are unable to join physically in a college or University. There is a steady increase in the number of enrolments in online programmes. However, this will pick up further once we announce the National Digital University together with flexible online education regulations,” .

Within the past three years, there has been a boom in enrolments for online programmes. In 2020-21, 25,905 students registered for online courses, nearly tripling to 72,400 enrolments in 2021-22.

Universities have been classified by government regulators into three types: private, deemed-to-be, and public. Private universities had the most enrolments (19,547), followed by deemed-to-be universities (36,860). Central universities achieved third place with only 6888 enrolments.