Don Bosco University launches first Online degree courses
(Nov.02,2010) Don Bosco University - DBU, in India’s north-eastern Assam State,
is all set to launch its first online degree programmes. The Guwahati-based University,
already in its third year, plans to offer global access to its degree courses in seven
programmes in three disciplines. “We hope to target thousands of working-class young
people across the globe,” said Vice-Chancellor Dr. Stephen Mavely SDB. He said students
will be able to have access to the best professors from around the country. Currently,
DBU conducts regular degree courses in Management, Engineering, Information Technology
and Computer Applications from Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology at
Azara, and Don Bosco Institute of Management at Kharguli, Guwahati. Construction
work on the 272-acre main campus at Tapesia, ( 16 km from state capital Dispur,) is
to commence shortly. Within three to five years, the DBU main campus residential
complex is expected to house some six thousand students and staff. Besides the academic
and administrative complex, the campus will also have a tea plantation, orange grove,
sports complex, chapel, convention centre, hospital facilities, bio-diversity park,
as well as a free high school for one thousand poor students.