SMUDE offers professional degree programs in distance education to help working professionals earn qualifications that can boost their careers. The programs focus on industry-relevant course structures and skills to increase job readiness. Specific specializations are offered in domains like commerce, finance, supply chain management, and export/import. For example, the B.Com. program provides specializations that lead to careers in financial planning, supply chain management, or export/import. Similarly, the B.Sc. program offers a specialization in network technology covering networking, security and voice solutions. The goal is to produce industry-ready graduates through hands-on learning and ties with industry partners.

1. SMUDE Professional degree programs
Distance education has become the preferred mode of continuing education for the larger Indian
mass, who wants to earn and learn simultaneously. There is value-addition in terms of an academic
qualification and this coupled with experience, helps working professionals towards steady career
progress. The quality, industry-relevant course structure and the accessibility of distance education
universities have made them popular for UG, PG and diploma studies.
As distance learning is geared up to deliver skills to the job industry and add value to a student’s
profile, industry-oriented specialization is a prime focus area for greater job-readiness.
In the modern industrial scenario, businesses have become diverse and operate on a global scale.
Each segment of a business demands in-depth domain knowledge to compete and perform better.
Learning specific skills about a particular domain, helps students gain expertise in that field and
render them competent for a particular business segment. To elaborate, the commerce domain
covers a wide variety of subjects related to accounts, finance, commerce and administration. An
industry-specific specialization can be in finance, Supply chain management or Export import
management.
Generating higher employability at the UG level through its prodegreeprograms is UGC and DEC-
recognized Sikkim Manipal University – Distance Education. A landmark in the distance education
space, SMU-DE has delivered academic excellence through its innovative pedagogy. In-line, the
university offers Prodegree programs for Distance B.Com and Distance B.Sc. The Prodegree
programs focus on the industrial sectors, which demand a higher degree of expertise than what is
accomplished with a simple graduation.
The B.Com Prodegree
The B.Com Prodegree imparts specific skillsets in Financial Planning, Supply Chain Management and
Export Import Management. The electives chosen along with the Commerce stream will determine
as to which skill-set the student will specialize in. A B.Com Prodegree in Supply chain management
will find lucrative job options in merchandising firms, manufacturing industries, transportation
industries and logistics firms. Those with financial planning specialization apply well to Brokerage
firms, wealth management companies, banks, fund houses where they can be involved in retirement
planning, estate planning, stock broking, investments, debt and banks, risk management etc. In
addition, students can set up their own business, act as consultants or insurance advisors for firms.
The Export import management B.Com Prodegree holders find innumerable opportunities in trading
houses, marine insurance companies, Export processing zones, development authorities and
commodity boards etc.
The BSc Prodegree
At the BSc level, the university offers Prodegree in BSc NT (Network technology) covering the latest
in the technology space with special emphasis on networking, security and voice solutions. Here, the
students can work in a centralized network lab, which will have all the resources to perform any kind
of lab assignment. The distance learning program’s curriculum is streamlined with seminars, web-

2. based training and project works. SMU-DE has tie-ups with special skill partners to develop content,
give industry-oriented training and offer placement assistance to the prodegree students.
Through the distance learning prodegree programs, SMU-DE has yet again reinforced the principle of
taking distance education on a new level, enabling the mass student, to take on the job industry with
greater readiness.