Distance

Hello Dhanush,
Very nice to see that spark in you to learn. Yes you can comfortably start MA. I would IGNOU since it has pan India presence. It also has video lessons. However in Bangalore there are plenty of teachers who are teaching weekend batches.

Hello Rani,
The beauty of the distance education programmes is that they are pan India. Anybody can apply for it. Only restrictions are the centres for exams. These may not be across India. With this restriction, you can do the course.

Sikkim Manipal is a good option for distance MBA.

Online MBA where everything including exam is conducted online is not at all valid degree hence scrap of the paper. distance learning MBA is not approved by AICTE hence you are not eligible for government job where AICTE approval is mandatory including teaching. A full time MBA from tier 1 and tier 2 institute is not at all comparable with any institute whose ranking is beyond 75 and most of the employer may not give any additional weightage while selecting.

as per UGC regulation of 2009 and 2015, any institute cannot offer PhD in distance mode it has to be either full time or part time with certain condition attached to it. A PhD degree through distance learning is invalid. few private universities offer such options but those options are bad for you and your career. yes, you can do PhD from your workplace but at least 6 months you have to spend in college/ university frequently for pre PhD coursework

Hello Deepak,
This query has been posed by many students. The issue is not whether it's allowed or not, issue is will you be able to do justice to both courses simultaneously? Download, brochure of the course you intend to do by distance education and if while filling up application form you do not make any false statement then you can safely do second course.