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Overview

As per the guidelines of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), the establishment of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) is a mandatory requirement for all NAAC-accredited institutions. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, (formerly SRM University) has been recently accredited in 2018 with the highest grade A++ (3.55/4.0) by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) for the period 16.08.2018 – 15.08.2023.

The IQAC at SRMIST has been consistently and actively involved in quality sustenance and enhancement activities. It is a participative cell that works on evolving strategies to remove deficiencies, stay receptive to changes and enhance quality, thus channelizing the efforts of the stakeholders at SRMIST towards achieving holistic academic excellence, generating desired educational outcomes and delivering on best student-life experiences.

Strategies

IQAC shall evolve mechanisms and procedures to:

  • Ensure timely, efficient, and progressive performance of academic, administrative, and financial tasks,
  • Create relevance and quality of academic and research programs
  • Differently-abled Scholarship
  • Provide equitable access to and affordability of the academic programs for the various sections of society
  • Provide optimization and integration of modern methods of teaching and learning to the curriculum
  • Ensure credibility of the evaluation procedures
  • Ensure adequacy, maintenance, and functioning of the entire support structure and its services, and
  • Share research works and network with other institutions in India and abroad. and

Functions

Important Note:

  • Development and application of the quality benchmarks/parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
  • Facilitate the creation of a learner-centric environment conducive to quality education and the maturation of the faculty to adopt the required knowledge and technology for a participatory process of teaching and learning.
  • Arrangement for a feedback mechanism and ensure its effectiveness through the participation of students, parents and other stakeholders on any quality-related institutional processes.
  • Disseminate information on the various quality parameters for higher education.
  • Organization of inter and intra-institutional workshops, seminars on quality related themes and the promotion of quality circles within the institution.
  • Documentation of the various programs/activities that lead to an improvement in quality.
  • Act as a nodal agency of the Institution for coordinating all quality-related activities, including adoption and dissemination of the best practices.
  • Development and maintenance of the institutional databases through MIS for the purposes of maintaining/enhancing institutional quality.
  • Development of a culture of quality in the institution.
  • Prepare an Annual Quality Assurance Report (AQAR) as per the guidelines and parameters of the NAAC, to be submitted to the NAAC.

Benefits

IQAC will facilitate and contribute to:

  • Ensure heightened levels of clarity and focus in institutional functioning towards quality enhancements.
  • Ensure internalization of the quality culture.
  • Ensure enhancement and coordination amongst the various activities of the institution and institutionalize all good practices.
  • Provide a sound basis for decision-making that improves institutional functioning.
  • Act as a dynamic system for quality changes in the HEIs.
  • Build an organized methodology of documentation and for internal communications.
Outcomes of Activities of IQAC at SRMIST

Some of the outcomes are:

  • NAAC Accreditation
  • Grant of Graded Autonomy by UGC (Category II)
  • AICTE approval
  • Rating by QS – Stars
  • Ranking by NIRF
  • Ranking by QS/THE
  • UGC/MHRD successful reviews
  • Annual reports of the Institute
  • Ranking by media conducted surveys
  • Revision of the UG/PG regulations
  • Student/alumni/faculty/employer/parent feedback