Objectives

The Karnataka State Open University came into being to achieve the following objectives:

• - Democratising Higher Education by taking it to the doorsteps of the learners.


• - Providing access to high quality education to all those who seek it, irrespective of age, region or formal qualifications.


• - Offering need - based academic Programmes by giving professional and vocational orientation to the programme.


• - Promoting and developing distance education in India.


• - Relaxed entry regulations.


• - Providing opportunities to study according to one's own pace and convenience.


• - Flexibility in choosing the combination of courses from a wide range of disciplines.Providing opportunity to study from one's own choosen place and pace.