NBA web portal: A Comprehensive Survey on NBA Accreditation and MERN Stack for the Purpose of Implementing a Portal

In recent years, India has witnessed tremendous growth in the number of institutions that provide higher education. India now has over 4000 engineering colleges in various states which include IITs, NITs, Central Universities departments, State Universities departments, constituent colleges, affiliated institutions, Government Aided Institutions, Institutes under Private Universities, Institutes under State Universities, and Autonomous Institutions. The demand for education and training has become more critical than before but of late there has been a drop in the quality of education. There may have been an outburst in the number of educational institutions but over the years, the quality itself has not seen a very positive impact. The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development has established NAAC under UGC and NBA under AICTE in 1994 to look into the quality aspects of HEI and undertake accreditation. To maintain quality standards, Engineering institutions are now being encouraged to apply for NAAC accreditation on an institutional level as well as NBA accreditation for individual programmes. NBA accreditation has now become a prerequisite for technical institutions to seek autonomous status from university/UGC. This paper aims to study the different aspects of NBA accreditation and help us understand its importance in addition to exploring the possibility of this process even being digitally carried out with the help of a customized web portal.