DistanceLearningportal

What DistanceLearningportal is

DistanceLearningportal is a free web portal for finding and comparing online and distance-learning programmes from universities worldwide. Its catalogue includes more than 40,000 options, including online Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD programmes, certificates, and distance-learning courses. Users can search for online degrees or browse by discipline, country, and university. They can also create a wishlist, assess their fit with programmes, and read what other students say. Free registration provides study matches, a profile for study preferences, and a wishlist, while a free personality test helps identify programmes matched to a user's personality. The portal describes a process of exploring options, comparing and shortlisting them, deciding, and applying via Studyportals. It is part of Studyportals, whose privacy policy identifies Studyportals B.V. as the operator; the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities is its founding partner. Studyportals says personal-data processing follows GDPR and relevant Dutch laws, and describes safeguards including device encryption and restricted, logged database access. Chat input is used to improve the session, not train general AI models; consent is required for AI analysis, and users can opt out.