I am sure most of you might have heard about NAAC accreditation and might even know the benefits of joining top NAAC grade college or university. Today in this post, I am going to talk about NAAC accreditation in detail.
NAAC (or) National Assessment and Accreditation Council was established in the year 1994 as an autonomous body by UGC (University Grants Commission) to accredit colleges and to provide consulting and advisory to higher education institutions. Basically NAAC evaluates and certified the college or the university and UGC use it as a reference point to allot them grants and even autonomous status.
In India, NAAC accreditation is an integral part of the functioning of higher education ecosystem and it is mandatory for all the higher education institutions to attain NAAC accreditation. UGC also allot grants to the university only if they are NAAC accredited.
Basically NAAC accreditation determines the quality of the insitution in terms of teaching, research, infrastructure, extra curricular, co- cullicular activities, student success, innnovation, education pedagogy and learning. Higher Education Institutions with top NAAC grades such as A++, A+ and A are one of the most sought after institution by both the students as well as companies. The NAAC accreditation for the collges and the universities is a three step process and NAAC will allot them score on five key key parameters mentioned above. Post completion of the evaluation, NAAC will allot them scores and if the higher education institution recieves a score of 3.51 to 4.00 then they will be graded as A++ while the institutions or the colleges with a score of 1.51 to 2.00 are graded as C. The one who didn’t opted for accreditation are graded as D.
Why Join a top NAAC accredited college or university
If you see the cummulative list of all the colleges or universities who opted for NAAC accreditation than till now more than 11000 colleges and universities got NAAC accreditation while over 200 universities and 1500 colleges are graded as A, A+ or A++. As a student the key benefit of joining a top NAAC grade colleges are
Placements: Top NAAC accredited colleges are most sought after by the top companies and MNCs as top NAAC accreditation determine the quality of teaching, research and innovation.
Higher Education and Further Studies: A degree from top NAAC accredited college or university will help you in securing admission from a top ranked universities in other countries. The higher the accreditation, the better it increases your chances for a favourable reply.
Exchange Program: Most of the top NAAC accredited colleges or universities have exchange program with other universities for dual degree or student exchange. This will help in overall development.
How to see the accreditation of the university or college:
As a student if you want to know the accreditation of the college or the university before applying than you can do the same by visiting The NAAC accreditation dashboard in the NAAC website. In the dashboard, you can see the list of all the colleges and universities categorically along with the accreditation period.
Cycles of Accreditation:
Higher learning institutes that undergo NAAC assessment for the first time is referred as Cycle 1, and the consecutive five-year periods as Cycle 2, Cycle 3 etc.
NAAC Re-Assessment:
NAAC accredited higher learning institutes seeking an improvement in the accredited status may apply for re-assessment. However, the institutes are allowed to apply for reaccreditation at least one year after (but not more than three years).
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