He School of Distance Education (SDE) of Bharathiar University was established during the academic year 1991-92. The school has limited its operation for the obvious reason of strengthening its base to provide quality education. Having realized the objective, the school has started extending its action by identifying and approving study centres throughout the country to help achieve higher gross enrolment ratio and higher literacy rate.

The school at present has 202 centres spreading over 23 states as study centres cum spot admission centres, and the number is steadily increasing as more and more evinced interest in starting study centres.

The school directly admits candidates and conducts the personal contact programmes at specified Personal Contact Programmes (PCP) centres in Coimbatore. Study centers cum spot admission centres enroll candidates and conduct the Personal Contact Programmes in their centres or at specified regional centres. The study materials prepared in the prescribed format of Distance Education Council (DEC) are provided to the students supplemented by compact discs for hassle free use anywhere at anytime without the burden of carrying the course materials. Contemplated to provide video conference based learning facility.

UNIQUE FEATURES
Applications are issued round the year and filled in applications including downloaded softcopy accepted and enrolment is made a continuous ongoing process throughout the year - Academic year batch & Calendar year batch