Impact of ICT Driven QA Framework on the Institutions of Higher Learning: India

Quality Assurance is presently entrusted with the national level accreditation agencies in India. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has made pioneering impact in past 25 years and has gained an acceptable level of credibility in higher education sector of the country. This study is about the efforts made by NAAC in bringing paradigm shift by launching a data driven framework for assessment and accreditation of institutions. It is attempted to analyze the impact of introducing ICT enabled bench-marking based NAAC’s framework on the performance of institutions. There are around 1546 institutions in various cycles completing this new assessment process as on 31st December 2020; performance of class-wise institutional categories is analyzed examine the possible patterns as well as to focus on reasons for such patterns.