In today’s time not everyone has the time for attending proper classes or the advantage for getting the admittance for some specific classes, thus in such cases distance education is the option for doing so. As the name in itself described that it is the form of education that are offered to students who can learn or educate themselves from some of the most prestigious colleges and universities irrespective of not having the need to attend classes yet get the all the necessary information through the arrays of books that are offered to them. It is also known as D-Learning where the students get all the books and information and even attend classes but not on regular basis through the centers that are offering for it. Or in some cases there is not even the need for such classes yet there are regular assignments that are to be completed which will also be graded in according to their score that they receive and sit for the final exams that will be the main point which will determine their status of performance.

There are various centers that are offering such system of learning where the student can learn at his or her own pace of learning and thereby giving more opportunity to gather all the important facts about it and it function under the Distance Education Council (DEC). Here are some of the most acknowledgeable institutes that offer this form of learning as:

• Indira Gandhi National Open University
• Annamalai University
• Osmania University
• Sikkim Manipal University
• Nalanda Open University
• Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning
• University of Madras
• Mahatma Gandhi University
• Karnataka State Open University
• ICFAI University

Irrespective of it there are also other means of offering for distance education through various medium such as television and radio, internet, Web conferencing, videoconferencing, educational television, instructional television, direct-broadcast satellite (DBS), internet radio, live streaming, telephone, and web-based VoIP. Open universities are also present that is also one of the means of learning that offers a varied categories of courses that are formed for the students to acquire all the necessary learning in the most advance way. There are more and more students who are gradually opting for series of courses as either because of the distance or they are already working with jobs and want to excel into higher position through the completion of the course. It is also cost effective as it cuts down the traveling expenses for the need to go everyday to the institute for it and also has a group of curriculums that will keep them engaged in it.