Centre for Distance Education, Chennai

Anna University’s Centre for Distance Education (CDE), Chennai, is one of the premier institutions delivering distance education in India. CDE was officially founded back in 2007 with the main and noble aim of making higher education accessible to every student in India.

The centre is established in Chennai – one of the liveliest cities in India – and affiliated with Anna University which occupies the top rank among engineering and technological universities in the country. CDE today has made availabilities of several facilities that assist the students who are under the distance education system.

The centre has a modern and rich library to meet students’ needs of gaining more knowledge and references. In an attempt to satisfy the practical course needs CDE has well-equipped laboratory, which provides students with practical experience in their courses. The institute also boasts of its quality infrastructure in terms of Information Technology to support online learning for its students.

Also, CDEs provide sport facilities and a hall for meeting and seminars, thereby providing a complete learning atmosphere to the distance learners. The programs taught at CDE enable the institution to meet the market demands in the present society. The centre currently provides three postgraduate programs: The post graduate programs are Master of Computer Applications (MCA) , Master of Science in Computer Science (M.

Sc Computer Science), and Master of Business Administration (MBA) . The MCA program is a course of three years being a full time programme on the other hand the M. Sc Computer Science & MBA programme are distance programme which take two years each to complete.

These programs are educative offering senior students an exposure to up to date knowledge as well as skills in the area of specialized technology and business that considers them for leadership positions in the technology and business professionals. Admission into CDE is very easy with all he process explained in detail without much complication.

Policies that enhances the provision of quality education is exhibited in this centre’s accreditation from University grants commission (UGC) evidence the national standard of the program in higher learning institutions.