NAAC accreditation is essential for higher education institutes, particularly state universities to get UGC permits and financial aid. Institutes with top NAAC grades like ‘A++’, ‘A+’ and ‘A’ are most famous, as they provide high-quality education.NAAC accreditation or grade for higher educational institute will help the student to figure out all the details about the institute such as quality of education, research output, facultyresearch, teaching-learning, infrastructure, curriculum coverage etc. NAAC grade helps students to choose the best institute based on its performance in the NAAC accreditation process. NAAC grade also determines the value of degree offered by the higher learning institutes.
There are many benefits of accreditation from NAAC are (1) Institution to know its strength, weaknesses, and opportunities, (2) Identification of internal areas of planning and resource allocation, (3) Funding agencies look for objective data for performance funding, (4) New sight of direction and identity of institution, (5) Intra and inter-institutional interactions, (6) Helps institutions to initiate innovation and modern methods of discipline, (7) Employers look for reliable information offered to the prospective recruits for quality of education.
NAAC evaluate the higher learning institute on some parameters are (1) Teaching-learning & Evaluation, (2) Infrastructure & learning resources, (3) Research, innovation & Extensions, (4) Curricular aspects, (5) Governance, leadership & Management, (6) Student support & Progression, (7) Institution Values and Best Practices. Higher learning institutes in India are evaluated for each key parameter under four different volume such as ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’. The Total score for all the key aspects is calculated with weightage applied to it and the GPA is worked out.
According to the survey of 2018 there are total number of NAAC accreditation colleges there are 7547 in First cycle, 3321 in Second cycle, 739 in Third cycle and 11 in Fourth cycle. Grade wise total number of colleges in India are 1639 with Grade ‘A’, 5097 with Grade ‘B’ and 811 with Grade ‘C’. Some of the top colleges which are Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Lady Irwin College, Godavari Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, St. Joseph’s College, Dr. Mahalingam college of Engineering and Technology etc.
