Accreditation Parameters
ORGANISATIONAL & INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE INDICES
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| 1. MISSION, GOALS AND ORGANISATION | 100 | 70 |
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Pointers: Appropriateness of the mission for higher education; vision for the future, unambiguously verbalized; purpose realistic and within the resource contest; mission and purpose widely understood and implicitly accepted by faculty and administrators; involvement of faculty in decision making/planning/projections; efficiency of governance in ensuring quality.
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| 1.1. Management | (50) | (30) |
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| 1.2. Organization and Governance | (50) | (40) |
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| 2. FINANCIAL & PHYSICAL RESOURCES AND THEIR UTILIZATION | 100 | 80 |
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Pointers: Financial resources sufficient for running the Programme, maintaining and upgrading equipment; physical resources necessary for achieving the purpose, class-rooms, laboratories appropriately equipped and adequate in size and numbers; facilities in conformity with legal, safety and security requirements; evidence of resource planning linked to academic financial planning.
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| 2.1 Capital resources | (40) | (40) |
| 2.2 Operational budget | (40) | (40) |
| 2.3 Maintenance budget | ||
| 2.4 Development resources and budget | ||
| 2.5 Land | (20) | (20) |
| 2.6 Building | ||
| 2.7 Hostels | ||
| 2.8 Support Services (Water, electricity, communication, etc.) Future Commitment/Plans | ||
| 2.9 Plans for permanent Infrastructure | (40) | (40) |
| 2.10 Facilities for future expansion | ||
| 2.11 Office equipment | ||
| 2.12 Canteen | ||
| 2.13 Transport | ||
| 2.14 Medical facilities |
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INDICES
| (UG) | (PG) | |
| 3. HUMAN RESOURCES: FACULITY & STAFF | 300 | |
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Pointers: Faculty adequate to accomplish the institutional mission and goal; one professor/senior reader in each major area; faculty selection through open advertisement in national papers and qualified selection committee; workload of faculty not to hinder effective performance of teaching and research; supporting staff in sufficient number with adequate qualification and skill; ambience for retaining good faculty; involvement of senior faculty in laboratory development; facilities for quality improvement.
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| 3.1 Faculty | 150 | |
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| 3.2 Supporting Staff (Teach./Admin.) | 50 | 30 |
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20 15 15 (20) |
(20) |
| 4. HUMAN RESOURCES: STUDENTS | 300 | 100 |
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Pointers: Orderly and ethical procedures for admission of students; securing PG admissions as an indicator of quality of teaching/learning Processes; feedback from alumni.
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| 4.1 Admissions | (100) | (20) |
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| 4.2 Academic Results | (100) | (30) |
| 4.3 Admission to Postgraduate Courses | ||
| 4.4 Employment of graduating students during the past year | (50) | (50) |
| 4.5 Feedback form employers | (20) | (20) |
| 5. TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESSES | 450 | 250 |
| Pointers: Broad areas of human knowledge, theories and methods of inquiry besides in-depth study of the identified area; clarity and relevance in curricula; pass-outs to demonstrate in-depth understanding of knowledge/practice; examination of student answer-books, grades, question-papers, team-work and design projects, interview with students and faculty to validate impressions from data. | ||
| 5.1 Syllabus | (150) | (80) |
| 5.2 Academic Calendar; number of instructional days, contact hours per week |
(100) | (40) |
| 5.3 Evaluation procedures and feedback | ||
| 5.4 Laboratories, Workshops and Equipment (facilities, maintenance and utilisation) | ||
| 5.5 Computing facilities, maintenance and Utilization | (100) | (80) |
| 5.6 Library | ||
| 5.7 ET facilities, Instructional materials | ||
| 5.8 Budget for consumables | (100) | (50) |
| 5.9 Implementation of the Instructional Programme (Lectures, Tutorials, Maintenance of Course Files, Workshops, Lab. Classes, Colloquia, Projects, Teaching aids.) | ||
| 5.10 Removal of obsolete experiments and introduction of contemporary experiments | ||
| 6. SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES | 100 | 50 |
| Pointers: Personality development opportunities; services and facilities accessible to students; career counseling, health educational grievance redressal procedures; professional society activities; entrepreneurship development; feedback from alumni & employers. | ||
| 6.1 Extra & co-curricular activities | ||
| 6.2 Student counselling and guidance | ||
| 6.3 Professional society activities | ||
| 6.4 Entrepreneurship Development | ||
| 6.5 Alumni Information | ||
| 6.6 Convocation | ||
| 6.7 Academic Environment, Student Movements. | ||
| 7. INDUSTRY-INSTITUTION INTERACTION | 70 | 100 |
| Pointers: Industry's role in Curriculum planning; consultancy and extension lectures; continuing education and industrial internship; visits industrial training. | ||
| 7.1 Stakeholders participation in curriculum planning | ||
| 7.2 Continuing education and industrial internship for faculty | ||
| 7.3 Consultancy | ||
| 7.4 Industrial visits and Trainings | ||
| 7.5 Project work | ||
| 7.6 Extension lectures | ||
| 7.7 Placement | ||
| 8. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT | 30 | 150 |
| Pointers: QIP programmes; faculty research involvement and project quality; sponsored projects: recognition as Centre of excellence; post graduate guidance jointly with industry; evaluation criteria for theses; publications, citations and patents. | ||
| 8.1 Institutional Budget for Research and Development | ||
| 8.2 Academic/Sponsored/Industrial Research and Development | ||
| 8.3 Publications and patents | ||
| 8.4P Recognition as Centre of Excellence/Special
Assistance/Department Support Programme |
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| 8.5P Fellowships/Assistantships | ||
| 8.6P Joint Guidance with industry/R&D labs/other institutions for post graduate studies | ||
| 8.7P Criteria for evaluation of post graduate project | ||
U - Applicable for UG Programme only
P - Applicable for PG Programme only