The National Board of Accreditation was, initially, set up in September, 1994, by the AICTE, in order to assess the qualitative competence of educational institutions from the Diploma level to the Post Graduate level in Engineering & Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture and related disciplines. The NBA in its present form, as an independent organization, under the Societies Registration Act 1860 has come into existence w.e.f. 7th January, 2010, with the objective of assurance of quality and relevance of education, especially in technical disciplines through the mechanism of outcome based accreditation of programmes and institutions offering technical and professional education...

A. NBA evolved the following since its inception, for accreditation.

Sl. No	Name of Document	Applicability	Authored by	Validity
1.	Manual of Accreditation- January, 2000  Code: NBA:All Disciplines: Dip./UG/PG: 2000	All Diploma/UG/PG Programmes in Engg./Management/ Pharmacy/Architecture/ Hotel Management/ MCA	Members of the Board of NBA, Senior Academicians and Subject Experts from IITs, Universities, etc.	All Programmes upto December, 2003
2.	Manual of Accreditation-January, 2004 (Revised Edition)  Code: NBA:All Disciplines: Dip./UG/PG: 2004	All Diploma/UG/PG Programmes in Engg./Management/ Pharmacy/Architecture/ Hotel Management/ MCA	Members of the Board of NBA, Senior Academicians and Subject Experts from IITs, Universities, etc.	All Programmes upto January, 2013(except UG Engg. Programme, i.e., upto June 2009)
3.	Manual for Accreditation of UG Engineering Programmes- June, 2009(Version: June, 2009)  Code:NBA:Engg: UG: 2009  Manual | SAR | Guideline	UG Engineering Programmes.	The Members of the Board of the NBA and the NBA Engineering Committee comprising Prof. S.C. Sahasrabudhe, Director, DAIIIT, Gandhinagar, Prof. M.U. Deshpande, Former Professor, IIT Bombay, Prof. Gopal Ranjan, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Roorkee, Prof. Gautam Biswas, IIT Kanpur, Prof. S. Sengupta, IIT Kharagpur, Dr. V.P. Kodali, Former Director of E&I, DRDO, Sh. Ravi Kumar	July, 2009 to June, 2011

B. The Accreditation Documents evolved by NBA, as an independent body.

Sl. No	Name of Document	Applicability	Authored by	Validity
1.	Accreditation Manual- UG Engineering: May, 2011 (Revised and updated version of June, 2009) Code:NBA:Engg.: UG: 2011	UG Engineering Programmes	Committee comprising of Prof. Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, Prof. A.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, Prof. S. Narayanan, VIT, Vellore, Prof. Raj Senani, NSIT, New Delhi the Prof. T. Ramesh, NIT Warangalas Members.	July, 2011 to January, 2013.
2.	Accreditation Manual for UG Programme: Tier-I System Code: NBA: Engg.: UG (Tier-I): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Evaluation Report | Manual	Tier-I document is meant for university departments/ autonomous institutions.	Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe, DAIIIT Gandhinagar, Prof. Ranjan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Prof. V. Lakshi Narsimhan (USA) and Dr. G.S. Yadava I.E.(I). A committee consisting of Dr. A. Koteswara Rao, Dr. A. Abudhahir, Dr. S. Baskar, Dr. S. Rajakarunakaran, Dr. N. Murugan, and Dr. G. Athisha in consultation with the then Member Secretary, NBA made a significant contribution in the finalization of the documents.	Applicable from February 2013 to December 2015.
3.	Accreditation Manual for UG Programme: Tier-II System  Code:NBA: Engg.: UG (Tier-II): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Evaluation Report | Manual	Tier-II document is for the affiliated institutions	Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe, DAIIIT Gandhinagar, Prof. Ranjan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Prof. V. Lakshi Narsimhan (USA) and Dr. G.S. Yadava I.E.(I). A committee consisting of Dr. A. Koteswara Rao, Dr. A. Abudhahir, Dr. S. Baskar, Dr. S. Rajakarunakaran, Dr. N. Murugan, and Dr. G. Athisha in consultation with the then Member Secretary, NBA made a significant contribution in the finalization of the documents.	Applicable from February 2013 to May 2015
4.	Manual for Accreditation of Diploma Engineering Programmes(Tier-I and Tier-II) Code:NBA: Engg.: Diploma (Tier-I): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual Code:NBA: Engg.: Diploma (Tier-II): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual	Institutions offering Diploma Level Engineering Programmes. • Tier-I document is meant for university / autonomous institutions. • Tier-II document is for the affiliated institutions.	Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. V.K. Agarwal, NITTTR Bhopal and Prof. Onkar Singh, HBTI Kanpur, Prof. S.K. Ghosh, IIT Roorkee, Prof. A.P. Mittal, NSIT New Delhi, Prof. M.M.Sharma, G.B. Pant Polytechnic New Delhiand Prof. R.K. Dixit, NITTTR Bhopal as members prepared the draft documents. The documents were modified, (as Tier-I and Tier-II on the pattern of UG Engineering Programmes) in consultation with the drafting Committee and experts, viz. Dr. A. Koteswara Rao, VRSCE Vijawada, Dr. N. Murugan, CIT Coimbatore, Dr. A. Abudhahir, NEC Kovilpatti, Dr. S. Rajakarunakaran, Kalasalingam University Krishnakoil, Dr. S. Baskar, TCE Madurai, and Dr. G. Athisha, PSNACET Dindigul finalized the documents for the purpose of consistency.	Applicable from April 2013 to September 2015
5.	Manual for Accreditation of UG Pharmacy Programmes: (Tier-I and Tier-II) Code:NBA: Pharmacy: UG (Tier-I): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual Code:NBA: Pharmacy: UG (Tier-II): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual	Institutions offering UG Pharmacy Programmes.  •Tier-I document is meant for university departments/ autonomous institutions. •Tier-II document is for the affiliated institutions.	Draft documents were prepared by a Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. M.R. Yadav, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara and Prof. Ciddi Veeresham, Kakatia University, Warangal, Dr. (Mrs.) P.M. D’Mello, KMK College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, Prof. V.R. Sinha, Punjab University, Chandigarh and Prof. Tarun Jha, Jadavpur University, Kolkata as members. The documents were modified, (as Tier-I and Tier-II on the pattern of UG Engineering Programmes) in consultation with the drafting committees and experts, viz. Dr. A. Koteswara Rao, VRSCE Vijawada, Dr. N. Murugan, CIT Coimbatore, Dr. A. Abudhahir, NEC Kovilpatti, Dr. S. Rajakarunakaran, Kalasalingam University Krishnakoil, Dr. S. Baskar, TCE Madurai, and Dr. G. Athisha, PSNACET Dindigul finalized the documents for the purpose of consistency.	Applicable from April 2013 to December 2015
6.	Manual for Accreditation of Diploma Engineering Programmes Code:NBA: Engg.: Diploma : 2015 Self Assessment Report	-	-	Applicable from October 2015 to January 2019
7.	Manual for Accreditation of Diploma Engineering PG Programmes(Tier-I and Tier-II) Code:NBA: Engg.: Diploma PG (Tier-I): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual Code:NBA: Engg.: Diploma PG (Tier-II): 2013 Self Assessment Report | Guideline |Manual	-	-	Applicable from April 2013 to December 2015
8.	Manual for Accreditation of Management Programmes:  Code:NBA: Management Programmes Self Assessment Report |Evaluation Report  |Guideline |Manual	-	-	-
9.	Management (Old) > Pro-forma for Pre-Qualifiers  > Self Assessment Report (old) > Evaluation Guideline*(July 2017) Evaluation Report(old) > Chairperson’s Visit Report :Part - A | Part - B > Evaluator’s Visit Report: Part - A| Part - B | Part - C	Management	-	-
10.	MCA (Old) Tier-I : Self Assessment Report | Guideline | Manual Tier-II : Self Assessment Report | Guideline | Manual	Computer Application (MCA)	-	-