What Students Say
Likes
- IGNOU has many many women of all ages enrolled. I have seen girls as young as 18, and as old as mid-40s enrolling in IGNOU
- A flexible, self-paced learning experience.
- Excellent quality of materials, and helpful members of staff at the IGNOU office.
Dislikes
- Since it is an open and distance learning university, you dont' get too many chances to engage with your classmates.
Course Curriculum Overview
The course curriculum is extremely well designed, relevant to the current times, and designed by some of the best people in the field from all over India. The BA Psychology course in IGNOU very much follows this principle. The first year course starts with the books assuming that the learner knows almost nothing about Psychology, and gently guide him/her through the basics. It teaches you about all the important areas of psychology, it teaches you statistics, it teaches you about research; basically, it's everything that one would like to know about the field of psychology at the undergrad level. The exams are actually very easy if you read the books properly AND practice writing answers. Answer writing skills aren't built in a day, and thou shalt not pass if you study one day befor the exams. However, if one could study for even one hour a day (which includes studying and writing both), then s/he would score really good grades easily.
Fees and Financial Aid
I have to pay around Rs. 10,000 per year plus exam (theory + practical) fee. The exam fee for my second year was around Rs. 3000 (Rs. 2000 for theory and Rs. 1000 for practicals). The fee slowly seems to be increasing, but it is still a very affordable place for quality education. It has students from all walks of life, many of whom could not pay the hefty fee that other colleges charge. But IGNOU provides them with the opportunity to learn at their own pace in an affordable way.
Campus Life
There are no such annual and technical festivals or traditional classrooms, since IGNOU is an open distance-based learning university. In keeping with its philosophy of low-cost open education to all, you can download all the IGNOU books from its website. Also, it has an e-library where you can get even more books and magazines.
Admission
The admission process is really simple. Two times a year, IGNOU opens up its admission portal for students to take admission: June, and December. You can check the IGNOU website for more details, the process is extremely simple. You could also take help from YouTube. There is no eligibility criteria, except wanting to learn :)
Faculty
IGNOU focuses on self-learning, so there aren't many chances to engage with the faculty. the books are generally more than sufficient and reading them by yourself is typically good enough, at least at the undergraduate level. There are some classes scheduled sometimes, but not too many. Greater focus is given to student-teacher interaction at the graduate level, though. The course is extremely well designed and relevant to the present times. It is designed by some of the leading experts in the field. The exams, however, are not as easy as one might assume. They are not "hard" per se, but a lot of students assume that they can just "fill the page" and get marks
Night Life
There's nothing like that here lol. But since I have to fill the word count, I'll make this longer than it needs to be. But don't worry, I'm not going to be like this when writing actual essays haha. Ok, just one more line. Done. Lol.
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