SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH
"DYNAMIC DISTANCE EDUCATION."
Need of the Hour

Hon’ble Chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune Dr. Patangrao Kadam established Bharati Vidyapeeth in1964 with very strong desire to bring about much needed ‘Social Transformation through Dynamic Education’. His resolve to promote education among masses was due to his personal knowledge of hardships a student from rural background especially from socially disadvantaged classes is required to go through while seeking opportunity of education. With his astute leadership and fired by the inspiration from within as well as due to painstaking efforts of his younger brother Hon’ble Dr. Shivajirao Kadam, Vice Chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune together they have established more than 165 excellent educational institutions since 1964 till this date.

In view of the excellence of infrastructure and in view of unquestionable potential of profound growth of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University the University Grant Commission of Government of India granted university status (under the UGC Act, Under Section 3)  to 12 of the higher educational institutions of Bharati Vidyapeeth on 26th April, 1996. During last 15 years the University has richly grown into multi campus, multi faculty University to be one of the largest in the country having as many as 32 higher educational institutions undertaking 252 different types of educational programmes benefiting lacks of students with high quality higher education. The present students population is in excess of 18000 and the university has more than 3000 highly qualified professional teaching faculty members. In view of the excellence achieved by the constituent institutions of Bharati Vidyapeeth University, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has awarded the most prestigious “A” grade to Bharati Vidyapeeth University and to all its constituent units. It is a matter of pride that the National Accreditation Board (NAB) of AICTE has also awarded highly creditable ‘A’ grade to our technical institutions.

To implement the educational programmes under distance mode of education he selected our own institutions of management located at New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Karad, Sangli, and Solapur. These institutions are provided with excellent infrastructure such as computer laboratories with facility of Internet browsing for the students. Further in these institutions, highly skilled technical and professional teachers are devotedly providing support to the students by way of special counseling sessions, teaching faculty contact sessions, student seminars, group discussions etc. Additionally, there is excellent institution-industry co-ordination whereby students go on industrial visits. They are trained in the industry for developing technical skills as well as they are trained in the field of management of material and manpower resources.

The University conducts the evaluation of the students of distance education periodically by way of home assignments evaluation, project evaluation, practical skill evaluation as well as conducting theory examination twice in a year. Appropriate importance is given to home assignments, tutorials, project work for internal assessment.

Following are the Educational programmes offered by the School of Distance Education under different faculties  namely:
Basic Foundation ( Liberal Education Programmes)
● B.A. ●B.Com. ●B. Lib. & I.Sc. ●B.B.A. ●B.C.A.
Post Graduate Courses:
● M.A. Economics ● M.A. English ● M.A. Sociology ● M. Lib. & I.Sc.
Post Graduate Courses (Professional / Technical):
● M.B.A. General ● M.B.A. IT ● M.B.A.  Executive  ● M.C.A.
Diploma Courses in Management Studies:
● P.G.D.B.M. ● D.F.M. ● D.M. M. ● D.R.M. ● D.I.B.M. ● D. H.R..M
Law Faculty Courses:
A) P.G. Degree  
● LL.M. (Specialization) - a) Business Law  b) Human Right
B) Diploma Courses in Laws 
● D.T.L. ● D.L.L. ● D.I.P.L.
Value Addition Courses
● CFL - Certificate in Foreign Language (French/German)
● A.C.F.L. - Advanced Certificate in Foreign Language (French / German)
● D.F.L. - Diploma in Foreign Language (French / German )
Value Addition Certificate Courses  in Management:
● CPSEB - Certificate Programme in Sustainability and Excellence in Business 
● CPSS -  Certificate Programme in   Six Sigma
● CPFIM -  Certificate Programme in  Finance and Insurance Management

These educational programmes are so designed that the syllabus of the same is equitable with the syllabus of regular mode of degree and diploma programmes. To facilitate the students they are provided with excellent quality Self learning Study Material which is especially prepared by the technical subject experts. The subject experts have prepared the study material strictly adhering to Distance Educational Council guidelines. The study material is presented in the unitary pattern as recommended by Distance Education Council so that the entire programme syllabus is divisible under very convenient fractions called as units. The teaching faculty provides interactive guidance to the students for promoting their understanding and knowledge and practical skill demonstration to make them competent professionals.

Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune through its School of Distance Education provides a golden opportunity for aspiring students to increase their academic career potential by rewarding them with diploma and degree of higher education.

Director of School of Distance Education, Prof. Dr. V.L. Jahagirdar earnestly makes an appeal to all the interested students to seek admissions to distance education programmes on priority and appeals to all the students to derive the benefits of this flexible education system.

Prof. Dr. V.L. Jahagirdar,
Director
School of Distance Education,
Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University,
E-mail: bharati.distance@yahoo.com
Bharati Vidyapeeth Bhavan, L.B.S. Marg,
Navi Peth, Pune – 411030.
Ph.:  020-24407264, 24335520
Website: www.bharatividyapeethdistance.com