Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 20: After bagging 53rd rank in NIRF 2019 and 51st in QS India University Rankings 2019, the University of Kashmir added yet another feather to its cap by scoring A+ Grade in the recent re-accreditation cycle by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
According to the result issued by NAAC, the University of Kashmir is scoring an impressive 3.31 Institutional Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on a scale of 04 ahead of several other leading Universities in the country.
The University has scored 3.89 in Infrastructure and Learning Resources; 3.67 in Curricular Aspects; 3.18 in Teaching Learning and Evaluation; 3.05 in Research, Innovations and Extension; 3.61 in Institutional Values and Best Practices; 3.1 in Governance, Leadership and Management and 2.94 in Student Support and Progression.
The long awaited accreditation was awarded today to the university by Peer NAAC team, which had visited the varsity in the first week of May, 2019.
It is in place to mention here that KU has earlier been accredited during its previous two cycles, first in 2002 and then again in 2011 and on both these two occasions the University was awarded Grade ‘A’ by NAAC.
Being the chairperson of Monitoring and Steering Committee, the KU Vice Chancellor, Prof Talat Ahmad personally monitored the preparedness of the University for the Peer NAAC team visit.
Notably, NAAC-accredited institutions become eligible for different funds from GoI. NAAC evaluates higher educational institutions in terms of their performance related to the educational process and outcomes, curriculum coverage, teaching-learning process, faculty, research, infrastructure, learning resources, organization, governance, financial wellbeing and student services.
Meanwhile, Governor Satya Pal Malik, Chancellor of the University of Kashmir, has congratulated Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor of the University, his colleagues, staff and students for being awarded A+ Accreditation by Peer National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Team.
Governor expressed happiness on the impressive performance of the university and urged for making the KU a leading institute in teaching and research and wished it success in all its future academic endeavours.
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