It offer programmes leading to undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees through open distance learning.
The OU was established under the Open University of Mauritius Act No.
Its first founder Director-General is Dr Kaviraj Sharma Sukon.
The guest was the French-Mauritian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Dr Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
It is the only public university that has experienced a continuous positive growth as evidenced by the findings of the report of the Tertiary Education Commission (see Figure 6 on Page 6): http://www.tec.mu/pdf_downloads/Participation_Tertiary_Education_2018.pdf==