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Director's Desk
Ms. Swati Mujumdar
B.C.S, MBA, M.S. (USA)
Director, Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
Principal Director, Symbiosis Open Education Society

Global boundaries are vanishing, merging people of diverse cultures, nationalities and age groups. Education is emerging as the most powerful platform in the ' boundary-less' world. Distance learning opens new directions of opportunities for students to obtain higher education without the constraint of location and time. Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL) offers a chance to enhance your career and life through the medium of quality education. Our wide range of academic programs are extremely popular amongst students as they offer an industry- ready curriculum and a modular, credit based course system which enables the student to progress in a step-by-step manner, at their own pace. Today, around 2,53,577 students from across the globe are studying in various SCDL programs, in order to fulfill their dreams.

SCDL has pioneered in India many innovative learning and delivery models for the benefit of students such as online assignments, on-demand examinations, interactive e-learning content, virtual classroom and on line – chat with expert faculty. This has enabled our students to enhance their understanding of the subject matter as well as experience classroom participation and peer interaction using latest technology. SCDL offers a Modular Course System with Credit Banking Facility. Under this facility one can take any Single Course and Bank and Accumalate credits for future transfer to other programs of SCDL thus providing Flexible Pathways of Learning. To further our vision of creating a Virtual Campus, we have created a sophisticated web portal which offers several online learning facilities and support services for our students.

SCDL also has an efficient system for providing transparent, effective and useful student care services. SCDL is the only institute in India to offer a Dedicated Students Call Centre and e-Communication centre for prompt and accurate response to student queries. The Call Centre also offers an integrated voice response system to provide automated information to students. This use of technology in the education and delivery models has been immensely appreciated by international agencies/bodies such as Common Wealth of Learning, UNESCO and Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU).

The Corporate Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (C-PGDBA) is specially designed for working professionals, based on the 'learn-while-you-earn' philosophy where in all the lectures and examination are delivered on the Corporate premises. This program has also become extremely popular and has also gained tremendous popularity. SCDL is now an education provider to top leading companies in India, such as IBM, Cognizant, Cegeduim, Collabera, Deloittee, Infosys, Kingfisher Airlines, D & B TransUnion, LG Soft, Dr. Reddy's, Wipro, EXL, BOSCH, Steria and many others.

SCDL has been invited by foreign Universities of Thailand and Malaysia for collaboration – a mark of the excellent quality education which we provide and appreciation of our unique, innovative student support services.

SCDL offers a holistic and enriching learning experience to all our students by blending quality education with innovative student care services.

“I welcome each one of you to our ‘World Campus’ where latest technology, innovative teaching methodologies and quality education are blended together to create unique learning experiences.”
 
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