What is NBA Accreditation?

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) aims to bring standards of some of the programmes offered in technical institutions across the country at par with the programmes offered in instituitions across USA and Europe, has introduced a quality auditing system also establishing datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering education.

The NBA will periodically conduct evaluation of technical institutions and Programs on the basis of guidelines, norms and standards.

The accreditation exercise is designed to be rigorous with several inputs such as Quality of Teaching, Level of Research, Faculty Expertise, Evaluation of Teachers, Standard of Infrastructure available in the campus, such as hostel facilities, library, medical facilities etc.

These are taken into consideration in order to help the visiting accreditation team of experts to have holistic approach and arrive at arational evaluation.

The uniqueness of the process is that any program or institution will have to maintain the quality and standard, if they wish to retain the accrediation standard. " Adapted from AICTE's website.