IIMC Granted Deemed University Status, Now Authorised To Offer Degrees

New Delhi: 

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), a leading institution for journalism and mass communication, has been granted deemed university status by the Ministry of Education.

With this new status, IIMC is now authorised to offer degrees, including doctoral.

The UGC had demanded the deemed university status under a distinct category.

The status extends to IIMC New Delhi and its five regional campuses located in Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Amravati (Maharashtra), Aizawl (Mizoram), Kottayam (Kerala), and Dhenkanal (Odisha).

“A big thanks to the Ministry of Education for declaring IIMC New Delhi and its five regional centres as a Deemed to be University. IIMC is committed to giving its best to promote education, training, and research in mass communication,” the institute stated in a post on its social media handle X, formerly Twitter.