Any person pursuing technical education in India is supposed to be doing from an institute approved by AICTE except from recognized Central / State Universities, Deemed Universities, Universities formed under Section - 3(f) i.e. Private University, Institutes of national importance e.g. IITs, IIMs, IIS, NID, NIFT etc created by an enactment of law in parliament. Kindly see the AICTE site where the list of unapproved colleges are there. Some degrees are equivalent to Indian degrees, for which one need to submit their foreign earned certificate to Association of Indian Universities, Kotla Marg, New Delhi where they will ascertain its equivalence in India. Regarding Open universities, there are few cases pending in the different court of law. Few High court judgments have expressed that they are not supposed to give regular technical education, M.Phil, PhD, etc. but it is now in the supreme court and once the verdict is out, the air of confusion will settle down.