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Accreditation is a process that assesses the quality of higher education programs. It encourages institutions to continuously improve and assures stakeholders of a program's quality. Accredited programs offer higher quality education, strengthen student confidence, and enhance graduate employability.

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What Is Accreditatio ENG

Accreditation is a process that assesses the quality of higher education programs. It encourages institutions to continuously improve and assures stakeholders of a program's quality. Accredited programs offer higher quality education, strengthen student confidence, and enhance graduate employability.

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What is accreditation?

Accreditation is a process of quality assurance and improvement, whereby a programme in an approved


Institution is critically appraised to verify that the Institution or the programme continues to meet and/or exceed
the Norms and Standards prescribed by regulator from time to time. It is a kind of recognition which indicates
that a programme or Institution fulfils certain standards.

Why accreditation?
The purpose of the accreditation by NBA is to promote and recognize excellence in technical education in
colleges and universities - at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. Institutions, students, employers,
and the public at large all benefit from the external verification of quality provided through the NBA
accreditation process. They also benefit from the process of continuous quality improvement that is encouraged
by the NBA's developmental approach to promote excellence in technical education. Through accreditation, the
following main purposes are served:

Support and advice to technical institutions in the maintenance and enhancement of their quality of
provision;

confidence and assurance on quality to various stakeholders including students;
 assurance of the good standing of an Institution to government departments and other interested bodies;
 enabling an Institution to state publicly that it has voluntarily accepted independent inspection and has
satisfied all the requirements for satisfactory operation and maintenance of quality in education.
Impact of accreditation
The purpose and impact of accreditation goes far beyond quality assurance of an Institution and its programs.
Major impacts of accreditation system are summarized below:
 Encourages quality improvement initiatives by Institutions.
 Improves student enrollment both in terms of quality and quantity.
 Helps the Institution in securing necessary funds.
 Enhances employability of graduates.
 Facilitates transnational recognition of degrees and mobility of graduates and professionals.
 Motivates faculty to participate actively in academic and related Institutional / departmental activities.
 Helps create sound and challenging academic environment in the Institution, and Contributes to social
and economic development of the country by producing high quality technical manpower.

Benefits and Significance of Accreditation


Accreditation is a tool that stakeholders use to monitor, assess and evaluate the standards and quality of the
education a student receives at a college, university or other institution of higher learning. Some of the major
benefits enrolled students receive by attending an accredited institution / program are as follows:
 Accredited institution / program offers the highest quality education available;
 Accredited institution / program strengthens consumer's confidence, employers value degrees of an
accredited program the most;
 Accreditation helps institutions to know their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, pushes them to
continuously improve their programs and give them a new sense of direction, identity and targets; and
 Accredited institution / progam demonstrates accountability to the public, commitment to excellence
and continuous quality improvement.

Who Gets Accredited?


Individuals, courses, and institutions are not accredited. NBA only accredits programs in Engineering, Computer
Application, Pharmacy, Management, Hotel Management and Catering Technology.

Outcomes-based Accreditation Criteria


Outcome based education is targeted at achieving desirable outcomes (in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes
and behaviour) at the end of a program. Teaching with this awareness and making the associated effort
constitutes outcome based education. This entails a regular methodology for ascertaining the attainment of
outcomes, and benchmarking these against the program outcomes consistent with the objectives of the program.
Initially, NBA accreditation used to be based on ‘input – process – output’ model with major emphasis on
availability of resources / facilities and the outputs thereof. In the year 2009, NBA aligned its methodology with
international benchmarks and started accreditation on the basis of outcomes. It believes that educational quality
must be measured by outcomes rather than inputs, because inputs do not necessarily correlate with quality
outcomes. Outcomes are dependent not only on inputs but also on the processes followed by an institution to
convert inputs into defined outcomes.

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