In a first for a Karnataka public varsity, Bangalore University gets NAAC’s A++ grade

The university has achieved academic excellence through various initiatives in the past five years.  It was accredited with an A grade by NAAC in the past two cycles with a CGPA of 3.16.

The university is also credited with having launched initiatives such as a digital evaluation system, introduction of new undergraduate and postgraduate courses, more than 10 publications from each faculty, highest research funding, many consultancy projects, a high citation index, good number of patents, highest support to students from marginalised communities, biodiversity conservation and alumni contribution to developmental activities.

The university has performed more than 95 per cent in all the metrics of NAAC. A peer team from the council visited the university from May 17 to 19 to evaluate the qualitative metric.

“The accreditation has boosted the university’s efforts to fulfil its vision ‘to promote excellence in higher education for a vibrant and inclusive society through knowledge creation and dissemination’. With this award, the university would march ahead with further excellence in academics and achieve global competency,” said vice-chancellor Dr Jayakara S M.

The university has said that it further aims at internationalisation, establishment of a dedicated centre for fostering community engagement as per UGC norms, introduction of need-based professional courses, creation of feasible and useful collaboration with institutions and centres of excellence, establishment of a central instrumentation centre to house expensive equipment and promotion of trans-disciplinary studies and research.