NAAC accreditation freeze for 2024-2025 academic year

Key facts

• No university or college received fresh accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) during the 2024-2025 academic year.
• NAAC had accredited 1,790 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the 2023-2024 academic year.
• NAAC received accreditation requests from 2,300 institutions for 2024-2025.
• As of 14 August 2025, NAAC had accredited 509 universities, 7,783 colleges, and 290 autonomous colleges.
• This represents less than 20% of about 50,000 colleges and roughly 40% of 1,170 universities in the country.
• The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill proposes a new Accreditation Council to oversee state agencies, replacing the Bengaluru-based NAAC monopoly.
• Ten NAAC members were arrested in February 2025 after a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into bribery allegations for granting A++ accreditation to the Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.
• A senior education official stated that the revamped accreditation process is expected to restart within a couple of months.