• democratizing higher education by taking education to the doorsteps of the learners;
• providing access to high quality education to all those who seek it irrespective of age, region or formal qualifications;
• offering need-based academic programmes by giving professional and vocational orientation to the courses;
• as an apex body, setting and maintaining standards in distance education in the country.

April 2007: 18 Students of IGNOU are selected by ICICI Bank as a part of Campus Recruitment. Of them, 10 students were from New Delhi while 8 were from Kolkata.