Mysore-headquartered Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) has become the second biggest distance university in the country, after the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Having tied up with three other universities, which have signed MoU with the KSOU, it expects its student enrolment to cross 200,000 this year-end.
It has also ambitious plans to launch some more courses in subjects like physics and chemistry in 2011-11. “We propose to build our own infrastructure in the campus for running such courses where face-to-face interaction is required,” KSOU Vice-Chancellor K.S.Rangappa said. He was speaking after signing MoU with Bangalore-based iNurture Educational Solutions Pvt.Ltd. iNurture Managing Director Ashwin Ajila said iNurture planned 14 new courses that focus on increasing employability in students. While the structure is as designed by the KSOU, the content for the courses will be provided by iNurture partnering with experts in the area so as to cater to the emerging career sectors.
The courses will be mainly bachelor and post-graduate degrees in subject verticals like animation, creative sciences, mobile applications, financial services, IT - infrastructure management systems, infrastructure storage management and embedded systems.