Achieving Academic Excellence in Private unaided Engineering Colleges in India

In this paper an attempt has been made to explain the strategies adopted to improve the overall performance of a private engineering college. For this purpose, a comprehensive model with a two pronged strategy has been suggested. First, the focus was on the student related issues such as the improvement of class room attendance, student mentoring program, student feedback etc., This was followed by the steps taken to enhance the examination results including the supply of question banks. The second strategy is related to the teachers. How the academic leadership helped the teachers in improving not only the classroom teaching but also in implementing several other student related programs is explained. The details regarding the tremendous improvement of R&D output due to the motivation given by the leadership are also explained. The procedures used for attaining academic excellence using various methodologies have been discussed in detail so that interested people may think of adopting.