Delhi University has been ranked A+ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The council grading is important for funds and grants allotted to a varsity by the University Grants Commission (UGC), varsity official said.
The Delhi University (DU) got a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.28. The CGPA for A++ accreditation is between 3.51 and 4. The council review was held in the last week of October. Last year, the Jawaharlal Nehru University was ranked “A++” in the NAAC review.
Prior to the actual review, university’s mock teams had conducted visits to various departments to ensure that the varsity is adequately prepared for the audit. The administration had also mailed a questionnaire of 103 questions to various department heads in this regard, reported by PTI.
Some of the questions included were- Does the DU department celebrate national festivals or observe birth and death anniversaries of great Indian personalities?, Is there a policy in place to check plagiarism? Etc..
A statement released by DU said, “The accreditation is as per the Revised Accreditation and Assessment Framework launched by the NAAC in July 2017, which represents an explicit paradigm shift in the accreditation process, making it ICT enabled, objective, transparent, scalable and robust”.
“The primary focus of the shift is from qualitative peer judgment to data-based quantitative indicator evaluation with increased objectivity and transparency. These include combination of online evaluation (about 70 per cent) and peer judgment (about 30 per cent)”, it added. The accreditation of the university is valid for a period of 5 years from November 30.