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Accreditation of Engineering Colleges

Over the past few years, the technical education sector has witnessed unprecedented expansion that has brought questions about the quality of education imparted, the competence of the graduates. The ISO standardization movement in the industrial scene has highlighted the need for accrediting programs. The National Board of Accreditation (NBA, http://www.nba-india.org) was set up by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in September 1994, for the purpose of assessment of Quality and Accreditation of Technical program in India. For Accreditation of for Engineering (UG) programs in India, NBA has brought out a scheme of accreditation that based on eight major criteria with specific objective and minimum score as eligibility standards

Criteria No	Description	Score		Remark
		Minimum	Maximum
1	Organization and Governance, Resources, Institutional Support, Development and Planning	100	150
2	Evaluation and Teaching-Learning Process	115	175	Based on past 3 years record
3	Students’ Entry and Outputs	100	150	Based on past 3 years record
4	Faculty Contributions	100	150	Based on past 3 years record
5	Facilities and Technical Support		75
6	Continuous Improvements		75
7	Curriculum		125
8	Program Educational Objectives – their Compliance and Outcomes		100
Total			900

Accreditation Criteria

1. The Program gets the status ‘Accredited’ for next 5 years from the date of issue of the letter from NBA, if it gets a minimum score of 750 points and scores minimum qualifying marks in the criteria specified.

2. The Program gets the status ‘Provisionally Accredited’ for next 2 years from the date of issue of the letter from NBA, if it gets a minimum score of 600 points.

3. The Program gets the status ‘Not Accredited’ if it gets the score less than 600 points.

Significance of Accreditation

To ensure

· a teaching-learning environment as per accepted good practices

· Essential and desirable features of Quality Professional Education.

· that the students passing out has competence based on well grounded technical inputs

· that the institutional performance is based assessment

· to signify institutions’ strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for future growth.

· The quality of institutional capabilities and Skills & Knowledge.