There has been a significant increase in the number of distance education colleges and institutes in the city of Mumbai. The main reason for this is that Mumbai is the hub as well as one of the most developed cities of the country. This has resulted into a large number of distance education colleges providing several distance learning courses.

These courses have been specially designed to aid the students to get educational opportunities under any circumstances. Various students taking up distance education from universities in Mumbai reside in remote areas where courses of their interest are not available. These courses are infact also taken up be working professionals who wish to get education while making money to support their families.

The distance education courses or the correspondence courses which are provided by the distance learning colleges and the universities In Mumbai are much cheaper as well as affordable when compared to several regular courses.

A few of these colleges which offer various Distance education courses and degrees have been listed below. They are:

• University/ Institute:  NIMIS University School of Distance Learning
  Located at: Institute Of Distance Education, M.G. Road, Fort Campus, Mumbai 400032

• University/ Institute:  University of Mumbai – Institute of Distance Education
  Located at: Mumbai, Maharashtra

• University/ Institute:  International Institute For Population Sciences
  Located at: Department Of Extra Mural Studies And Distance Education Govandi Station Road, Deonar, Mumbai 400088

• University/ Institute: SNDT Women’s University
  Located at: Department of Correspondence Courses & Distance Education, Juhu Road, Santacruz, Mumbai 400049