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IGNOU is offering relatively flexible entry to aspirants of the higher education, without putting much emphasis on rigidity of subjects/courses studied or percentage obtained as compared to the face-to-face mode universities. Further, there is no restriction in terms of intake capacity formost of its Programmes vis-à -vis maximum number of students to be admitted. Consequently, cumulative strength of students admitted in IGNOU is more than three million. However, there are number of students who are quitting IGNOU due to certain reasons by applying cancellation of their admission. Though the number of such students is not very large, still it has become a persisting trend. To minimize the persisting withdrawal trend, researcher felt that there was a need to analyse the phenomenon of cancellation of admission, which would help in suggesting strategies for containing the same.  \nKEYWORDS: Cancellation of Admission, Drop-out, Regional Centre, Level of Programmes.  \n1. INTRODUCTION:  \nIGNOU being one of the largest universities of the world in terms of students’ enrollment, not only contributing to the increasing Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of Higher Education of India in a big way, but it is also democratizing the higher education; and promoting life-long education in India by offering high quality need-based Programmes for different levels of higher education, with extremely relaxed eligibility criteria for admission, using a variety of media and technology, along with the facility of faculty interface, that too, at a very affordable cost. It has been  \nproviding the opportunity to pursue higher education to all, including the aspirants belonging to various socio-economically disadvantaged groups like women, SC, ST, OBC, differently-abled, transgender, and also to the ones who are living in geographically difficult terrains.  \nUndoubtedly, IGNOU is offering relatively flexible entry to the aspirants of higher education, without putting much emphasis on rigidity of subjects/courses studied or percentage obtained as compared to the face-to-face mode universities.  \nFurther, there is no restriction in terms of intake capacity for most of its Programmes vis-à -vis maximum number of  \nThis work of the Asian Journal of Distance Education is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  \nASIAN JOURNAL of DISTANCE EDUCATION  \nstudents to be admitted. Consequently, cumulative strength of students admitted in IGNOU is more than three million. For last few years, it has been admitting more than five lakh students, annually. During the last two admission cycles only – July 2018 and January 2019, IGNOU admitted 11,47,056 lakh students (IGNOU, 2019) . However, there are number of students who are quitting IGNOU due to certain reasons by applying cancellation of their admission.  \nThough the number of such students is not very large, still it has become a persisting trend. 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