Allama Iqbal Open University or AIOU is an open research college situated in Islamabad, Pakistan. The college is the fourth world's biggest establishment of higher learning, with a yearly enlistment of 1,121,038 understudies (starting at 2010), the dominant part of them ladies, and Course Enrollment of 3,305,948 (2011).
Set up in 1974, it is likewise Asia's first open college with a solid accentuation on giving separation training in designing, law, reasoning, common and sociology. It is viewed as the most appealing college in the nation and has the most candidates every year. The college offers broad undergrad, post-graduate, and doctoral projects in different scholastic orders. In the wake of seeing the accomplishment of Open University in the United Kingdom, the college was set up as a state funded college in 1974.
It has opened up instructive open doors for the working individuals and has given access to the females on their entryway steps. It has likewise done spearheading work in the field of Mass Education. It is presently softening new grounds up the fields of expert, logical, and specialized instruction. It is endeavoring to contact the remotest territories of Pakistan. It is likewise endeavoring to bridge current data Technology for spreading instruction in Pakistan.
Distance Education was initially mooted in the UK in the late 60s by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson. He was of the view, that instructive open doors must be given to the individuals who may have missed better training because of early work and wish to redesign, their insight and attitudes, in their extra circumstances in the nights at home. The UK Open University was, along these lines set up in 1969. From that point forward it has turned into a noteworthy establishment of learning in the UK and has opened up open doors for a huge number of working individuals. The good news of separation and Open Learning has, from that point forward spread all through the world. More than sixty Open Universities are working the world over on the premise of Distance Education. Present day data Technology has made the assignment of Distance Education considerably less demanding and successful.
The AIOU, when set up in 1974, was the second Open University on the planet and first in Asia and Africa. It, along these lines, talks about the premonition of the arrangement creators of that time. As these previous years of AIOU have demonstrated, Distance Education has opened up new open doors for millions, especially ladies, and supplemented the endeavors of the elected and common governments big and that too without turning into a weight on their assets.
Programme Offered
Ph.D Programmes
1. Iqbal Studies
2. Urdu
3. Islamic Studies
4. Distance and Non-FormalEducation (DNFE)
5. Teacher Education (Secondary)
6. Educational Planning and Management (EPM)
7. Special Education
8. Agricultural Extension
9. Statistics
10. Mathematics
MS/M. Phil Programmes
1. Islamic Studies
2. Iqbal Studies
3. Urdu
4. Teacher Education (Secondary)
5. Educational Planning and Management
6. Distance and Non-formal Education
7. Special Education
8. Mass Communication
9. Statistics
10. Economics
11. Chemistry
12. Food and Nutrition
13. Pakistani Languages and Literature
M. Sc. (Hon.) 17 – Year Education
1. Agriculture Extension (Regular classes at the main campus
2. Live Stock Management AIOU, Islamabad)
3. Rural Development (For continuing students only)
MA/MSc 16-Year Education
1. Pakistan Studies
2. Mass Communication
3. Economics
4. Community Health and Nutrition
5. Physics
6. Forestry Extension
7. Environmental Design
8. Sociology
9. Mathematics
10. Chemistry
11. Statistics
12. Gender and Women Studies Master of Arts (M.A.)
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