695 Universities & 34734 Colleges Lack NAAC Accreditation

New Delhi: More than 34,7000 colleges and 695 universities in India are operating without any accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar informed this in Lok Sabha on Monday.

“As per information received from the UGC, out of the 1,113 universities and 43,796 colleges, NAAC has accredited 418 universities and 9,062 colleges,” the minister said in a written reply.

The number of colleges operating without NAAC accreditation is 34,734, he said.

The accreditation of universities and colleges is done by the NAAC, an Inter University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

The new National Education Policy (NEP) envisions all higher educational institutions to aim, through their institutional development plans, to attain the highest level of accreditation over the next 15 years.