{"id":1144899,"date":"2026-01-12T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1144899"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:58:28","slug":"open-university-introduces-new-degree-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/open-university-introduces-new-degree-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Open University introduces new degree program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>LAHORE, Jan 12 (APP):Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has introduced a new subject-wise, two year degree program, through which students will now be able to obtain a degree in a specific subject in two years.<\/div>\n<div>According to the university administration, this program has been introduced as a special degree program for students who are not pursuing a 4-year degree.<\/div>\n<div>Students will obtain their degree after completing two years, and in future they will be able to enroll in the fifth semester for an honors degree in the same subject.<\/div>\n<div>This new program is different from the 2-year associate degree and the university has launched this new short program in view of the low number of students in the 4-year degree program to provide ease of educational opportunities to students.<\/div>\n<div>The new scheme will increase the flexibility in the academic engagements of the students and they will be able to complete their desired degree in less time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, Jan 12 (APP):Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has introduced a new subject-wise, two year degree program, through which students will now be able to obtain a degree in a specific subject in two years. According to the university administration, this program has been introduced as a special degree program for students who are not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2249,3408],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1144899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-aiou","tag-degree","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144899"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1144899"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1144899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}