Is YCMOU good or bad?

YCMOU is an open university which is approved by the UGC. Since no particular course has been listed in the question posed above, one can compare various courses and their eligibility and fee structure when it comes to determining how good or bad the YCMOU is.

Some other aspects of comparison along with the ones listed have been mentioned below.

Ranking:

The institute received the Institutional Excellence Award in 2002 and in September 2019 from Commonwealth of Learning, Canada.

Application Process:

• Students can go to the official website and click on the online application tab and choose the program they wish to attend.

• After this, registration is required where a fee of INR 100 is to be paid.

• After downloading this form, students are required to send it with other documents to the institute.

Facilities:

• Being an open university, the college has basic amenities to cater to student’s needs.

• It has an audiovisual center for making programs based on the syllabus.

• The library comes replete with journal subscriptions, 44,000+ printed books as well as online journals and videocassettes.

Evaluation:

• The center for evaluation technology provides course wise question banks for academic programs.

• This poses as a resource material for paper setting.

• Trained paper setters are required to set papers for students. This is based on a computerized database of experts handling this task.

Placements:

• The career guidance and placements cell offer opportunities for students to get placed.

• Major recruiters include IBM, Tata Housing, DK Group, Wipro, etc.

• The highest salary offered at the institute is INR 16 LPA with an average of 5 LPA.

While enrollment is relatively easy to the institute, students can also expect to make a decent career after enrolling into the institute.