UGC frames new draft of deemed to be universities guidelines

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday introduced a brand new, reframed and modified draft of Deemed to be Universities Regulations 2022 to align with the broader insurance policies of upper schooling as contained within the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. 

UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar informed this newspaper that these laws had been framed to control the method of declaring establishments of educational excellence as deemed universities in a scientific method and to keep up the standard of upper schooling offered by establishments thought-about to be universities in step with the beliefs of the idea of a college.

According to the brand new draft, multi-disciplinary establishments with a minimal of 5 departments (both Undergraduate/Postgraduate/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) or a cluster of establishments providing a minimal of 5 departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) situated in the identical metropolis or city might be eligible to use for deemed college standing.

Moreover, the eligibility standards might be a National Assessment and Accreditation Council ‘A’ grade with a minimum of a 3.01 Cumulative Grade Point Average for 3 consecutive cycles or National Board of Accreditation (NBA) accreditation for 2 third of eligible programmes for 3 consecutive cycles or in prime 50 of any particular class of National Institutional Ranking Framework for the final three years constantly. 

Salient options of latest laws

The governance construction might be much like central universities

Multi-disciplinary establishments with minimal 5 departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or 
a mix of those)

Or a Cluster of Institutions providing a minimal of 5 Departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) situated in the identical metropolis/city might be eligible to use for Deemed University standing

The eligibility standards is NAAC ‘A’ grade with a minimum of a 3.01 CGPA for 3 consecutive cycles or NBA accreditation for 2 third of eligible programmes for 3 consecutive cycles

OR TOp 50 of any particular class of NIRF for the final three years constantly or in prime 100 of general NIRF 

NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday introduced a brand new, reframed and modified draft of Deemed to be Universities Regulations 2022 to align with the broader insurance policies of upper schooling as contained within the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. 

UGC chairman Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar informed this newspaper that these laws had been framed to control the method of declaring establishments of educational excellence as deemed universities in a scientific method and to keep up the standard of upper schooling offered by establishments thought-about to be universities in step with the beliefs of the idea of a college.

According to the brand new draft, multi-disciplinary establishments with a minimal of 5 departments (both Undergraduate/Postgraduate/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) or a cluster of establishments providing a minimal of 5 departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) situated in the identical metropolis or city might be eligible to use for deemed college standing.

Moreover, the eligibility standards might be a National Assessment and Accreditation Council ‘A’ grade with a minimum of a 3.01 Cumulative Grade Point Average for 3 consecutive cycles or National Board of Accreditation (NBA) accreditation for 2 third of eligible programmes for 3 consecutive cycles or in prime 50 of any particular class of National Institutional Ranking Framework for the final three years constantly. 

Salient options of latest laws

The governance construction might be much like central universities

Multi-disciplinary establishments with minimal 5 departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or 
a mix of those)

Or a Cluster of Institutions providing a minimal of 5 Departments (both UG/PG/Integrated/Research or a mix of those) situated in the identical metropolis/city might be eligible to use for Deemed University standing

The eligibility standards is NAAC ‘A’ grade with a minimum of a 3.01 CGPA for 3 consecutive cycles or NBA accreditation for 2 third of eligible programmes for 3 consecutive cycles

OR TOp 50 of any particular class of NIRF for the final three years constantly or in prime 100 of general NIRF