It gives me immense pleasure to write a few words on the newly established Directorate of Distance Education of Magadh University offering several vocational and professional courses through the distance mode of learning to such students of the country in general and the State of Bihar in particular,who have not been able to continue their education in conventional institutions due to various constraints and under special circumstances.Open learning programme is for those who pursue higher studies as day boarders because either they are employed or self-employed in jobs, which do not permit them to do so,but are still desirous to upgrade their educational attainment.DDE is emerging as a benchmark for continuous journey towards excellence,among the institutions of higher education.Our students get to feel the taste of a boundary-less world through a heterogeneous mixture of students from across the country, who have made DDE as their institution of choice.