UGC directs Deemed universities to maintain NAAC & NIRF ratings and their finances- Education News

Private universities aspiring to acquire the ‘deemed to be’ status and retain it for consecutive years will have to follow new regulations by the UGC.

As per the new regulations, institutions with as many as five departments that have NAAC accreditation of 3.1 consecutively for three years for two-thirds of their eligible programmes will get the deemed to be university status. Now the HEIs would not have to wait for 20 years to get the status. In addition to this, the account books will have to be maintained, managed and operated in the name of deemed university, to avoid financial irregularities.
Jayasankar E Variyar, pro-vice-chancellor, GITAM (Deemed to be University), says, “This decision by UGC is progressive and will enable more universities to get deemed to be status. In the past, many private universities failed to get the status and had to suffer long waiting periods. The universities will have to focus on retaining the NAAC grade of 3.1 in three consecutive accreditation cycles and to fulfill these criteria, the universities would need to produce excellent graduates and decent infrastructure. The teaching learning outcomes will get a qualitative boost in the HEIs across the country as they would focus upon achieving the desired level of NAAC rating.”

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