Correspondence and part-time courses offer a virtually unlimited range of higher qualifications — whether it is an MBA degree you aspire to, or some much-in-demand computer skills. You can also obtain degrees in arts, science, technology, engineering, commerce, management or computers; in fact, in just about as many fields as regular, full-time courses.

Not just that. You can enroll for these courses at different levels of study — pre-university, undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate.

This comprehensive and up-to-date guide profiles more than 1,000 such recognised courses offered by over 300 accredited universities and professional institutions all over the country. Each course profile describes:

• Type of degree, diploma or certificate

• Name and address of the institution(s)

• Medium of instruction

• Eligibility conditions

• Syllabus and duration of the course

• Who to contact for further information.

• Correspondence, open university, part-time, evening, and external courses offered by the various universities.

• AICTE and DoE accredited professional and vocational courses.

• Courses offered by IGNOU, ICFAI, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan.

• Fully cross-indexed for quick and easy reference.

CARING comprises a team of information professionals working with a computerised database on today’s educational and career opportunities. The database is continuously enlarged and updated by analysing trends, reports and projections, obtaining critical inputs from experts in industry and academia, and fact-finding and investigation by Caring’s own analysts and research staff. The information is made available through books, modules, seminars, counselling and mass media. These books form a part of the whole endeavour.