Nalanda Open University - NOU

Nalanda Open University (NOU) offers a two-year BEd course under the Teacher Education Programme. This course is only for in-service teachers. The BEd at Nalanda Open University is a two-year course and the medium of instruction is Hindi. To get admission for BEd course, the candidate have to be graduate with 55% aggregate and required teaching expirence. 

A total of 16 subjects is present and these are divided into two parts, i.e., part A and part B. For both of the course part the written examination and assingnment score is 640 & 160, resepectively. All the MSc Mathematics subjects offered at NOU is presented in the table below:

 NOU Patna offers a two-year PG course of MA across 15 specialisations, which are taught through five different schools at the university. These specialisations are Economics, Education, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Maithili, Public Administration, Urdu, etc. Apart from this, the university also offers MA in Bhojpuri and English, but these specialisations are currently suspended by the university till any further update. 

In order to get admission to B.Ed at Nalanda Open University, candidates need to get a UG degree with 50% aggregate for General and 45% aggregate for reserved category candidates in any discipline from a recognised board as per the minimum eligibility criteria. Apart from that, students also need to have a proven teaching experience of two years. Admission to BEd is done through a valid score of the BEd CET entrance exam, which is a state-level entrance exam conducted for the candidates of Bihar. 

The university offers degree, diploma, and certificate courses in distance mode under the streams of Humanities & Social Sciences, IT & Software, Accounting & Commerce, Science, Mass Communication & Media, Business & Management Studies, Nursing, Medicine & Health Sciences, and Teaching & Education. The university also offers courses like Disaster Management, Yogic Studies, Child & Women's Rights, and Abolition of Child Labour.

The ranking of NOU is as follows :

'The Week' Hansa Research Survey 2018 as 4th.

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2019 as  66th.

This is year, it is accredited for NAAC Ranking that will be announced in December.

The placement data for BBA is not out officially. However, the students have revealed the overall placement details on the Shiksha students' review page. The overall statistics for Nalanda Open University placements are mentioned below:

NOTE: The above placement data is fetched from the Shiksha students' reviews.

The University hosted a wide-range of recruiters from various sectors. Some of the popular companies where the alumi are placed are listed below:

As per the Shiksha students' reviews, the Nalanda Open University highest package for recent recruitment processes stood at INR 10 LPA. As soon as the official salary statistics are out it will be updated here. Meanwhile, refer to the NOU Patna highest package from the table below: