Anyone has any info for this university?? A university in India offering distance learning in other countries including Singapore. Whole course is around US$2500 for their MBA program, and is accredited by ACU (Australian Commonwealth University) Any feedback will be appreciate.. Kozen
Well the university appears quite kosher - see http://annamalaiuniversity.ac.in/distance_re.htm but I have never heard of Australian Commonwealth University. Are you sure you don't mean Australian Catholic University or Australian National University? Cheers, George
Indian universities do offer very competitive DL programs but as far as I know you either have to be a citizen to be eligible or be present in person to sit for the exams ... please correct me if I am wrong. There are a few others worth looking into too... Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand see http://www.ru.ac.th/english/ India Ghandi National Open University, New Delhi, India see http://www.ignou.ac.in/ Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UniTAR), Malaysia see http://www.unitar.edu.my/ Any suggestions? KK
ACU stand for Association of Commonwealth universities. One of the criteria for many commonwealth countries (singapore and india included) to recognize the "legality" of a university degree. Annamalai is a private uni from india with a national 4 star rating. the distance degree can be done in singapore as there is a local agent office here that proctor the exam. Visit for more details at : www.hmhiec.com
In India the national accreditor is the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). They are an autonomous agency that was created by the University Grants Commission in 1994 and they are owned and funded by the Indian federal government. Annamalai University indeed appears on the NAAC's listing for Tamil Nadu. So Annamalai seems to be what Degreeinfo calls "GAAP" and it would probably be accepted here in the United States as RA equivalent.
careful about Annamalai My wife was doing the BA in English (through their "open university system") and had a pretty bad experience: She studied hard for her exams, wrote them *knowing* she had done well, and her grades came back just above failing in every subject but one. It was clear that the papers were maked arbitrarily, and she was discouraged enough to drop out. She didn't bother to challenge the grades, because here in India that in itself can sometimes lead to an administrator attempting to make life difficult for a student if it leads to the administrator's losing face. In India, I have heard better things about the University of Madras and Osmania University distance degrees, as well as Indira Gandhi National Open University. But I would avoid Annamalai. M
PS It's also worth noting that we had several other friends with similar experiences at Annamalai, which we discovered about after my wife had already enrolled.
