Jain University 100% Online (India) - MBA ~$3,000

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Jain University will not accept online bachelor’s degrees earned through TESU, COSC, WGU etc. I am from India, and approached Jain for a Master’s in Psychology. They rejected my application stating that online degrees are not accepted, even if they are from RA universities in the US. Seems the UGC has directed all universities in India to not accept online degrees earned outside India. So, my degrees from TESU & Walden are actually not deemed legitimate in India. I cannot apply for a PhD in any Indian university. Government orgs will not employ me. But private companies would still be willing to offer me a job.

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I am also not sure if Jain University’s degrees are 100% online. When I approached them for MS-Psych. last year, they told me the classes would happen online. But the exams would happen at designated centers across India. Also, I will need to attend 2 weekend seminars per year at their campus.

Great info. 

Do you know what is the UGC's reasoning is for having a stance against degrees earned online outside of India?

Small correction. It is the AIU (Association of Indian Universities) that evaluates foreign degrees, and they will not evaluate degrees obtained through pathways or  open/distance/correspondence/online/virtual modes. No reason given. See page 23 of the pdf:
https://www.aiu.ac.in/documents/evaluati...ochure.pdf

Ah, yeah, I read some stuff from them about this in 2019 or so and was puzzled. I thought based on your post that the UGC had taken a new officially-written stance on it. Thanks for clarifying.

Well, your information is still helpful. There are plenty of offline degree holders, as crazy as that may seem to us online degree nuts, lol.

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I suspect it's because degrees gotten online are expected to be fraudulent. And that's why India still does in-person exams for the most part.

Makes sense. There used to be a lot of spoken concern about that here in the United States with our own online programs, too. I tend to think that while there is always a percentage of people who will cheat things, I believe most people do their own work for the self-satisfaction of it. 

I can't help but think of all the money they're leaving on the table by doing this. Maybe they can hook up with Proctor U or Examity, have the students outside of India pay for the exams, and then that way they can be mostly certain that nobody is cheating the exams? I dunno, just an idea. There's probably even more to it than that, but for some reason I keep thinking Don Bosco University did this at one time or still does but through their own system, no Proctor U or Examity. I think it was them I got that information from once. I gotta look into it again.