UGC Update: UGC has banned many online and open-distance courses, if you are going to take admission, then check the list..

UGC: If you want to do an online or distance learning course, then there is very important news for you. UGC has banned many courses in open distance and online mode. These include engineering, medical, physiotherapy, pharmacy, nursing, dental, architecture, law, agriculture, hotel management, aircraft maintenance, visual arts, aviation and yoga. Apart from this, PhD cannot be done online and open distance mode.

Apart from this, UGC has started a new registration process to ensure transparency and avoid fraud in admission to open and distance learning (ODL) and online courses. From this academic session, students will have to register using Academic Bank of Credit ID by visiting UGC’s Distance Education Bureau (UGC-DEB) web portal deb.ugc.ac.in to get admission to ODL and online courses and create a unique ID. The new DEB-ID will be valid for life. It is mandatory only for Indian students.

UGC has banned these online and distance courses
Engineering

Medical

Physiotherapy

Occupational Therapy

Other Para-Medical Disciplines

Pharmacy

Nursing

Dental

Architecture

Law

Agriculture

Horticulture

Hotel Management

Catering Technology

Color Sciences

Aircraft Maintenance

Visual Art

Sports

MPhil

PhD

When will the new rule be implemented?
The new rules for admission in ODL and online courses will come into effect from September 2024. The purpose of this change is to get students admitted to recognized and good institutes. This will bring transparency to the admission process. Students will also get help in choosing the right institute for ODL and online courses.