NAAC grades out:Saurashtra, Nirma University on top in Gujarat

National Assessment and Accreditation Council(NAAC)’s Executive Committee meeting was held in Bangalore on 8 January to make final decision on gradation of various universities that underwent NAAC’s assessment and inspection procedure recently.

The decision is out and Gujarat’s five Universities have received ‘B’ grade, but with different figure of points.

Rajkot based Saurashtra University and Ahmedabad’s Nirma University both have got ‘B’ grade with equal 2.93 points to each.

Surat’s Vir Narmad South Gujarat University has got 2.82 points with ‘B’ grade.

Other universities(all received B grade) of Gujarat in the list of new gradation are: Sardar Patel University Anand(2.75), M.S.University Vadodara(2.71), and North Gujarat University Patan(2.55).

Gujarat University’s assessment process is pending as of now.

The assessment process covered seven different areas including curriculum development, teaching learning evaluation, research consultancy and extension, infrastructure and learning resources, student support, governance and leadership and innovative practices.

It should be mentioned here that the universities that get 3.01 to 4.00 points are described as Excellent(A grade), those universities that get 2.01-3.00 points are considered as Good(B), the universities that get 1.51-2.00 points are given ‘Satisfactory’ status(B).