The vision of SWAYAM Plus is to ensure access and equitable opportunities for all learners to enhance their employability and professional development. It will focus on achieving the following:

Building a platform for all stakeholders in the upskilling / re-skilling, including learners, course providers, industry, academia and strategic partners to come together.

High-quality learning and certification programs from the best industry and academia at affordable costs.

Employment-focused programs imparting future skills in chosen domains

Reach a large learner base by catering to learning across the country, with a focus on reaching learners from tier 2 and 3 towns

Enabling integration with APAAR so learners can accumulate credits from multiple institutions, both academic and industry, through their learning journey.

Flexible offerings basis learner needs – across chosen domains with options to learn through resources in vernacular languages.

Access to Indian Knowledge Systems for learners across the globe.

SWAYAM Plus will adopt an ecosystem approach by working with various strategic partners i.e., academic institutions, industry, edtech platforms and individual contributors, while SWAYAM currently focuses on partnerships with academic institution through 9 National Coordinators. In the due course of time, SWAYAM Plus will offer the whole gamut of qualifications. However, in the initial years, the focus will be on certification programmes.

SWAYAM Plus will have programmes in chosen sectors, namely – Manufacturing, Energy, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Healthcare, Information Technology and Services, Digital and Emerging Technologies, Social Sciences, Hospitality and Tourism, Teacher Education, Retail, Indian Knowledge Systems, Media, Communication and Soft Skills, Engineering and others.

SWAYAM Plus will offer courses across diverse sectors and not restrict itself to Engineering or technology. Sectors like Energy, Healthcare, Logistics (and more as mentioned in Q 1.2) will also be focused upon.

SWAYAM Plus will enable credit recognition of courses that learners are taking both from industry as well as academic institutions.

It aims to be accessible, affordable and provide flexible education with greater inclusivity. In the due course of time, SWAYAM Plus will offer the whole gamut of qualifications.

If you already have an account with SWAYAM, you can sign into SWAYAM Plus with the same login. However, if you are a new user, please register with SWAYAM / SWAYAM Plus . Users can also use their Google or Microsoft account to create login credentials.

There are no age restrictions to access SWAYAM Plus courses. Anyone can register on the portal and access the courses. However, partners based on their discretion may have prior knowledge requirement or qualification requisites to access the course and gain certification.

Learners can enroll in multiple courses on SWAYAM Plus as long as they have the ability to manage their time and fulfill the course requirements.

Yes - the learners are free to choose any course they want - however, we strongly recommend that learners choose their courses after reading through the complete information on the course information page. It is also a good practice to go through the pre-requisite knowledge section.

This varies from partner to partner. We strongly recommend that learners choose their courses after reading through the complete information on the course information page.

Once the learner has enrolled in a course, the learner will have access to course material and other necessary learning material on the LMS.

All courses that have certification or credit recognition require that the learner appear for a proctored online / offline exam.

This will vary from course to course, based on the preferences of the course provider.

This will vary from course to course, based on the preferences of the course provider.

Once the learner completes all the course requirements as outlined by the course provider, the certificate will be provided.

Learners can access SWAYAM Plus courses from their laptop, mobile or desktop through the web-browser.

Not all courses on SWAYAM Plus are credit aligned courses. The courses that are credit aligned will have an NCrF level tagged to it. Only those courses that have been aligned to an NCrF level can be submitted at the learner's University / college to gain credits. The courses that are NCrF aligned are approved by an expert committee, Program Implementation Committee. However, the final decision of awarding credits will depend on the University / HEI of the learner.

No, both free and paid courses are available on the portal.

Only for the initial days, the payment will happen on the partner's website. Very soon a payment gateway will be made available on the SWAYAM Plus portal itself.