While choosing an Institution for your MBA Distance Education programme you should take care of the following points.

Affiliation & Recognition

If you're taking an admission into any private institution you must confirm that the institution must be recognized by DEC (Distance Education Council), New Delhi for it's diploma and if you're taking admission into a college claims to provide a degree must check which university degree you'll be getting after your MBA & if the university is recognized by UGC (University Grant Commission) or not.

Updated Curriculum

In distance education courses study material & curriculum plays a very important role as in these type of courses most of the time you get a limited assistance & you study yourself, an updated curriculum not only helps you learn the current business strategies but also helps you compete with other students doing a full time course.

Faculty

Faculty of an institution is the foundation stone for the education imparted. Generally all the top institutions & universities provides you classes through their study centers or online medium. Good faculty give a new approach to learn the things. Must interact with some students already studying into the institution to clear your doubts.

Infrastructure

Must check if the University or Institution you're opting for your distance MBA is equipped with all the latest infrastructure required to provide distance education.  Now a days, a well organized online education system is a must for distance education because it gives you an ease to study at the time you want & watch the pre-recorded lectures from the ease of your home.

Specializations

Every institution has a different set of specializations available. before taking the admission must check if your skill sets matches with any of the specialization offered by the university. Choosing an specialization based on your past education is always considered to be a good practice.

Read Reviews

we read reviews about any product & service before buying it, why not we read reviews about an University or Institution before taking an admission. That's true that good reviews about distance learning courses are very rare on internet but if you'll Google it, you'll find some helpful reviews for sure.

Awards & Ranking

This is the easiest thing you can find on internet about any institution. Generally this information could be found on the university website itself. All the good institution use there ranking & awards information to attract the students. Organizations like DNA-Indus Learning, Zee Busineee, Outlook, Dainik Bhaskar, Competition Success Review etc publish these rankings based on the different factors to help students choose the right distance learning MBA course.

fees structure

Fee is also a deciding factor in your decision process to choose a course for distance learning. Generally all Universities charge an affordable fee for their MBA courses. On an average an Institution charge Rs.10,000/- per semester.

Placement Assistance

Usually distance learning courses are more popular in working professionals having 2-5 years of working experience but still some Universities provides job assistance. If you're a fresher must check if the institution you're gonna join provides any such assistance.