Indira Gandhi National Open University provide quality higher education through distance learning to remote and disadvantaged students. It helps in democratization of education in India. The university has been mandated to maintain the standard of distance learning in the country and provides high quality distance learning in a variety of disciplines including computer science, engineering, health sciences.

IGNOU offers certificate, diploma, graduate, post-graduate and PhD distance education courses and has regional centres all over India, including Indian air-force, army and navy recognized centres. Its courses are also available in 35 countries. The university is named after two-time Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and is the world's largest university .