Bharathidasan University
The Centre for Distance Education (CDE) of Bharathidasan University (BDU) was established in the year 1992, mainly to cater to the students of the University area for those who could not enter the regular colleges for higher studies. Subsequently, the area of Centre for Distance Education was extended to cover all the four Southern States and Union Territory viz., Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Now many study centres of CDE have been established all over India and abroad.