Distance/Correspondence

The university started its correspondence education on 24th March 1971. It was known as “Directorate of Correspondence Programs.” In the year 1985 it was upgraded as “Directorate of Distance Education” which was further in 1993, upgraded as IDE. In the academic year 2008-09 the “The Institute of Distance Education” is now named as IDOL. Since its inception IDOL has been giving high priority to human resource development by introducing various traditional Degree Programmes as well as Technical and Professional Programmes through distance mode.University of Mumbai is the 7 th University in the country About University of Mumbai Aims And Objectives which had started Distance Education Program in a conventional set up. Initially it started with the registration of 845 students which has grown up to a staggering figure of 76 ,495 (2016-2017) in the last academic year.