Only two State-aided colleges in State capital have been accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and only 74 colleges of the total 330 Government colleges in the State are accredited. large number of colleges avoid even applying for the accreditation also fearing lowed grading.
Institute for Excellence in Higher Education (IEHE) and Sarojini Naidu Government Girls Post Graduation (Nutan) College of State capital have accreditation from NAAC.
NAAC accreditation is going to play a major role in selection of colleges by the students. Students are believed to give priority to those colleges which have been accredited by NAAC. During the choice filling students will prefer the colleges on the basis of grading of college.
University Grant Commission (UGC) had made accreditation compulsory for all the colleges and universities in the country for receiving grant but, the institutions avoid accreditation inspection fearing that their grant amount will
be decreased after the accreditation.
Among the rest of 10 Government colleges and six Non Government colleges none has accreditation from NAAC.
Government Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya (MVM) and Government Maharani laxmi Bai (MlB) College have been inspected by the NAAC team in March this year but they have not received the accreditation yet.
Few more colleges are also waiting for inspection but a large number of colleges have not applied for accreditation.
Among the private and aided colleges Career College and Bhopal School of Social Science (BSSS) had accreditation from NAAC but it expired in 2012 and 2011 respectively.
NAAC accreditation is valid for five years time period only after which college needs to get again inspected and accredited.
DHE Commissioner VS Niranjan said that accreditation work is going on; many colleges have been inspected within last few weeks.
Department has also issued several circulars asking colleges to get accreditation. Students rely on the accreditation very much while choosing college for admission.