The quality of engineering education within the country must be maintained at the highest possible level. AICTE continuously tries to achieve this objective. The National Board of Accreditation of AICTE aims to bring standards of some of the programmes offered in technical Institutions on par with programmes offered in Institutions across USA and Europe, by introducing a quality auditing system and establishing a datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering education. The National Board of Accreditation will periodically conduct evaluation of technical Institutions and Programs on the basis of guidelines, norms and standards specified by the Board and recommend to the Council regarding recognition or de-recognition of the Institution or programme.

Realising the value of accreditation, several institutions have volunteered to go through the rigorous process of audit. the uniqueness of the process is that the duration for which any programme or Institutions will have to maintain the quality and standard, if they wish to retain their accredited standard.

The accreditation exercise is designed to be rigorous with several inputs such as quality of teaching, level of research, faculty expertise, evaluation of teachers, standard of infrastructure available in the campus, such as hostel facility, library, medical facility etc. These are taken into consideration in order to help the visiting accreditation team of experts to have holistic approach and arrive at rational evaluation.