U-1183 · Punjab
JAGAT GURU NANAK DEV PUNJAB STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Distance and online education is their statutory purpose, not a side activity.
- AISHE code
- U-1183
- Type
- State Open University
- State
- Punjab
- District
- Patiala
Disclosure. We run one of the programmes described on this site — the IICT and IIPM online MBA. It is deliberately excluded from the tiers below, which are ordered by statutory standing, something we neither control nor hold ourselves. Ours is here, labelled, so you can weigh it against everything else yourself.
What this tells you
- They award their own degrees — no affiliating university sits in between.
- ODL is what they were created to do, so the machinery around it is mature.
- Fees are typically the lowest available, from about ₹32,000–38,000 for a full MBA.
- Their weakness is live teaching and support, which is thin almost everywhere in this tier.
What it does not tell you
The register records that this institution exists and what category it is in. It says nothing about whether an online MBA is currently offered here, what it costs, how it is taught, or what the outcomes are. We do not rank institutions on those things because we cannot verify them at this scale.
The three checks, in order
- Is the programme running this session? Ask the institution directly.
- Is it entitled for the mode? Ask for the UGC-DEB entitlement letter naming the programme, the mode and your intake year.
- What is the total fee? In writing, from admission to certificate, not per semester.
Standing is settled. The rest is not. This tier answers the question of who awards and under what authority. It does not answer whether the teaching is good, and no honest source will tell you that without data.