Correspondent education is an independent education, which does not require a real-time interaction between students and teachers. In this education student can study at home, receiving the exam paper by post and sending back assignments by post. The flexibility of time helps the student to prepare himself betterly for the exam. The well planned instructional material, instructional design and self-instructional material help the independent learners in a significant way. The strategy, stages and steps in effective lesson writing are really helping the students to develop themselves more maturely. It is also very economical, which is affordable by every sections of the society.
In India correspondence education is so old. It was as much as distant education. After the concept of open universities comes into the existence it lost some point to them. But some regular universities like Delhi University, Jamia Milia Univesrity, Madurai Kamraj University and so many are in the top list of correspondence course.