Start here · the reading method
How to read an institution
This site keeps profiles on hundreds of bodies that offer an online or distance MBA in India, from open universities to single-building PGDM institutes. Every profile is written against the same short worksheet. Learn the worksheet once and any provider page — ours or anyone else’s — takes five minutes to read and one minute to judge.
01 · The worksheet
Seven lines. Each settles one thing.
These are the checks a profile on this site has already run before it says a word of opinion. They are also the checks you can run yourself, on any institution, with nothing but its public record.
- Its legal species
Before the name, the category: is this a university — state, deemed, private or open — an Institute of National Importance, an autonomous college, or a PGDM institute? The category fixes what the body may put its name to, and no prospectus can move it. The six categories, with every institution sorted into one.
- The document it issues
Degree, diploma or certificate — three instruments under three different sets of rules. A profile that cannot name the exact document is not a profile; the comparison on our front page sets out when each one is the right purchase.
- The record, not the brochure
Profiles here begin from the public register entry, not from the institution’s own website. When the two disagree, the profile says so — and the register wins. If you only adopt one habit from this page, adopt this one.
- Entitlement for the mode
A university can be perfectly real and still not entitled to award in distance or online mode in a given year. The entitlement is per-mode and per-year, and it lapses. The offer-level version of this check is question two on our choosing page.
- Continuity
Not “established 19-something” as a boast, but the plainer question: has this body operated under the same identity, issuing the same instrument, long enough to have alumni you could actually find?
- The fee, as a written total
This site sorts the market into three fee territories; a profile places the provider in one and says what that territory typically buys. Any figure that is not offered as a written total for the whole programme is treated as unknown.
- What it calls itself
The one-sentence self-description. An institution that states plainly what it is — including when the honest answer is “an autonomous institute issuing its own diploma” — clears this line. One that dresses itself in a university’s clothes does not, whatever else its page says.
02 · The honest gaps
What a profile cannot settle
Teaching quality. There is no public, defensible measurement of it in this market, which is why this site sorts providers by what each is empowered to award — a checkable fact — and refuses to dress that up as a quality ranking. Any page, anywhere, that ranks a hundred providers by “quality” has invented the number.
Outcomes. Salary and promotion claims are marketing until someone outside the institution can verify them. Profiles here either leave such claims out or name them as the institution’s own assertion, so you always know whose voice you are reading.
Which instrument you need. That answer lives in the rulebooks of your own path — a government recruitment notice, a PhD admission rule, an employer’s HR policy — not in any profile. Read the rule that governs your next step first; then put the six offer-level questions to whatever shortlist survives it.
03 · The reading path
Where to go next on this site
The pages below are the ones the worksheet leans on. Read them in whatever order your question demands.
04 · Worked examples
Three institutions, read in full
Three providers get a longer treatment than the register can hold, each on its own page. They are also the worksheet in action — category first, document named, record cited.
05 · Asked and answered