School of Distance Education (SDE) was established in 1971 as the pioneering open distance learning (ODL) institution in Malaysia. Apart from offering accredited ODL programmes to working adults, SDE also offers postgraduate programmes in transdisciplinary research.

In line with USM’s vision and mission, SDE is committed to empower future talents and enable the bottom billions to transform their socio-economic well-being through its academic services in teaching, learning, research, publication, networking at national and international levels.