The Online Universities are those educational universities which offer courses of studies through internet, computer, and other devices of information technology. A variety of distance education technologies are utilized by these universities for offering the best possible online education programs, such as synchronous learning technology, asynchronous technology, interactive audio and radio instructions, web-castes and webinars, online virtual worlds, etc. With ever-growing popularity of the online education courses in countries worldwide, the number of online universities and institutes is also on constant rise. Among a large number of online universities in the present-day world, about 150 are globally reputed and popular; some of these top online universities of the world, are listed below. These online education universities of the world collectively extend about 500 online educational and professional courses at the levels of undergraduate, postgraduate, associate, and doctoral, in a really wide range of disciplines or subjects. A rather huge number of studying and working students, busy professionals, occupied businesspersons, housewives, physically challenged persons, unemployed persons, and other people of society, avail courses of these online universities in the world over, every year. For getting information about the subjects covered by some of the best online universities of the world over, please visit other web-pages of our reputed and highly reliable educational website of India.
India's Top Distance Education Universities
In India, the online university education is also becoming fast popular by students and professional interested in various areas of academia, professions, businesses, industries, and services. The courses of an internationally accredited online university, are most preferred and recognized by employers in all economic sectors. Today, about 175 online universities and institutes are immensely and internationally famous, and offer about 300 online courses at varying academic and professional levels, in most of the globally popular subjects. Among these, the following are the most reputed and top online universities in india, at present:
- Indira Gandhi National Open University [IGNOU], New Delhi
- Yashwantrao C. Maharashtra Open University, Nasik
- Sikkim Manipal University [SMU-DE], Manipal
- University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- IMT Distance and Open Learning Institute, Ghaziabad
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad
- Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning [SCDL], Pune
- Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar (Tamil Nadu)
- Osmania University, Hyderabad
- Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata
- University of Delhi, New Delhi
- Karnataka State Open University, Mysore
- Alagappa University, Karaikudi (Tamil Nadu)
- University of Madras, Chennai
- Baker College Online, (Michigan)
1116 W. Bristol Road, Flint, MI 48507-9843, USA - Bellevue University, (Nebraska)
Bellevue University 1000 Galvin Road South Bellevue, Nebraska 68005 Telephone Numbers: (800) 756-7920 (402) 293-2000 (402) 293-2020 FAX - Capella University, (Minnesota)
Minneapolis Offices Capella University 222 South 9th Street, 20th Floor Minneapolis, MN 55402 - Capitol College, (Maryland)
Capitol College 11301 Springfield Rd. Laurel, MD 20708 301-369-2800 / 1-800-950-1992 - Cardean University, (Illinois)
500 Lake Cook Rd., Suite 150, Deerfield, IL 60015, USA - Florida Metropolitan University, (California)
FMU Online, Corinthian Colleges, inc. 6 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 400, Santa Ana, CA 92707 Phone : 888-741-4271, Fax 714-427-5111 - Kaplan College, (Iowa)
BJ Flaherty, CTC, DS, 1801 East Kimberly Road, Suite 2, Davenport, IA 52807, USA 563-355-3500 Fax: 563-355-1320 - Capella University, (Minnesota)
Minneapolis Offices Capella University 222 South 9th Street, 20th Floor Minneapolis, MN 55402 - Stratford University, (Virginia)
Tysons Corner Campus 7777 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Virginia 22043 703-821-8570 800-444-0804 - University of Maryland University College (UMUC), (Maryland)
3501 University Blvd. East ICC Suite 3105 Adelphi, Maryland 20783 USA Phone: (301) 985-7767 Fax: (301) 985-7640 - University of Phoenix, (Arizona)
3157 E. Elwood St., Phoenix, AZ 85034, USA - Walden University, (Minneapolis)
155 Fifth Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Phone: 612-338-7224 Fax: 612-338-5092