Spotlight: COVID Enrollments and Accreditation

According to The Times of India (August 29, 2021), deemed universities in Tamil Nadu have cut intake by 10% for the 21-22 school year, due to COVID-19, but also in reaction to accreditation guidelines.  Declines in admissions for engineering programs impact ranking and accreditation because the accrediting agencies consider the intake of students for calculating faculty ratios, not enrollments. R W Alexander Jesudasan, pro-vice-chancellor of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science in Chennai, explained that as a result some universities began to trim their intake to have better ranking and rating points.