Home > Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University
| Established: |
1994 |
| Type: |
Public |
| Chancellor: |
S. C. Jamir |
| Vice-Chancellor: |
Prof. Avadesh Kumar Singh |
| Students: |
more than 100 thousand |
| Location: |
Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India |
| Campus: |
Urban |
| Affiliations: |
UGC |
The Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University is a public institution of higher learning in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It provides a variety of courses and degree programs through distance education mode and other flexible mediums for its students. It is named after Indian political leader Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. This new concept of education come into existence with the establishment of Indira Gandhi National Open University. The University offers 38 programmes with an enrolment of more than 1,00,000 learners. The headquarters of the university is located at Ahmedabad. The University has established Regional Centre on the campus of South Gujarat University, Rajkot and has initiated the process of another establishing Regional centre on the campus of North Gujarat University, Patan. The University has more than 250 study centers. It jurisdiction over the whole state of Gujarat. It is open to all persons irrespective of classes, castes, creed or religion.
Structure
The university is divided into two main divisions Cells and Schools which are given as follows: Cells of University
- Grievance Redressal Cell
- Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Cell
- Students Cell
- Sexual Harassment Cell
- Statistical Cell
- Single Window Cell
Schools of University
- School of Humanities & Social Sciences
- School of Commerce and Management
- School of Education Distance Education & Education Technology
- School of Computer Science
