Nitish Vinayak's Review On Indira Gandhi National Open University - [IGNOU], New Delhi

In the starting period of college the books were delivered a little late.Instead of internal exams the course structure have assignment submission criteria to qualify for semester exam but i think internal examination are better for good results in case of management the student will have to deal with the management of study center he is studying mostly. In my case the management was excellent.

No entrance exam is there but a student should have maths or computer as a subject in 12th class with 40% marks. It doesn't have entrance exam or marks cut off criteria. The admission process was quite simple here. I scored good in mathematics so i easily qualified for this program here.

Course structure quite similar to Indraprasth University's BCA Program. The faculty of each course will be specialized in the course he will be teaching. I actually loved studying networking just because the faculty's way of teaching. I would say that if someone is really hardworking, go for Ignou because its study materials are pretty informative and sufficient for any exams. Apart from it exams conducted by Ignou is quite a challenge because if you cannot write answers yourself no alternatives will be there to help you. So tough situations is built up in Ignou examination hall.

IGNOU doesn't provide any internship but for a IT professional course like BCA a student can easily find an internship in startups. I how ever worked on independent projects which helped me a lot.For better experience if you didn't get a internship at anywhere and also no independent projects u can get hands on with C on Linux, C++ on Linux, JAVA on Linux,PHP on Linux MySQL Database,Oracle Database as well. Because Most of the Solutions now a days r Network Solutions and Linux is most popular in Network solutions. If u get certified with RHCE which will give u Linux Administration knowledge hands on practical experience & PHP & MySQL combination for Web Development will be ultimate.

Placement opportunities are good. One can enroll for job mela organised by IGNOU at Maidan Garhi. Companies like Wipro,infosys do campus hiring there. Companies offers 15k per month in training period. But there is one more view too and that is the university was created from the central act The IGNOU Act of 1985. It is also recognised by the UGC. Several court cases have been won in favour of the students who have IGNOU degrees against employers who had solely disqualified the candidates based on the degree. So it can be challenging if didn't got hired in campus placement.

Gandhi Jayanti celebrated at Raj Ghat every year and a lot of type of competitions are held by host regional center of ignou. We did celebrated teachers day with all the faculties every year at study Center and it was always fun. Events like freshers parties or any other parties aren't organised as the BCA is an distance learning program. But our faculty manged to held some technical events like special laboratory networking classes by some alumni working on networking profile in a MNC.

Fee structure is just fine its only Rs 4500 per semester and they provides books and practical lab session too.

There was no scholarship programs provided by IGNOU as far as i know how ever banks can provide study loan to one and it won't be costly as the fee structure is feasible .

Gender ratio is just fine. As this degree program is correspondent the student interaction is a little lower than regular college program's. The environment is friendly and everybody treats each other fairly whether its in manner of economics status,religion,race etc.

Hostel facility isn't provided by university but one can easily mange to find PG near by. Cafeteria isn't provided by university as the the study sessions will be held at study center and they do not provide cafeteria.

Alumni network is not that great but yeah we did met some seniors who are placed well in good job profiles and it did motivated us and showed the right way to go after passing out of college.