Comparisons6 min read
Best college ERP for NAAC and NBA evidence
An accreditation cycle turns your ERP from a record keeper into the place where the Self-Study Report lives. Nine other products checked on 18 September 2026: NBA and NIRF named nowhere, NAAC named once. Here is who actually publishes criterion-wise evidence.
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iVake publishes this page. Facts about other products come from those companies' own public pages on the date shown. Corrections to hello@ivake.com.
NAAC evidence is not something a college produces in the month before submission. It is attendance, assessment, activities, publications and outcomes recorded all year, then assembled. That is why the accreditation question is really a data question: does the software hold the facts, or does the IQAC rebuild them in a spreadsheet every cycle?
The short versionOn 18 September 2026 we read nine other products' own sites. NBA and NIRF appear nowhere. NAAC appears once, on Skolaro's college page, which names reporting for AICTE, UGC and NAAC. MyClassboard covers SQAA, CBSE's school framework, and Meritto covers UGC's Distance Education Bureau — both useful, neither a NAAC/NBA evidence engine. iVake publishes criterion-wise NAAC data sets, CO/PO/PSO attainment for NBA computed from the live grade book, and AISHE/AICTE returns from the same record. It is the only one of the ten that publishes all of it.
Accreditation coverage, as published
| Product | What they publish about accreditation |
|---|---|
| iVake | NAAC and NBA evidence, AISHE and AICTE returns |
| Meritto | UGC DEB compliance only |
| Teachmint | Not published |
| MyClassboard | SQAA, for CBSE schools |
| Fedena | Not published |
| Edunext | Not published |
| OpenEduCat | General wording; no NAAC or NBA named |
| Vidyalaya | Not on the product pages |
| Skolaro | AICTE, UGC, NAAC on the college page |
| Classe365 | Degree Audit; no NAAC or NBA |
"Not published" means we could not find it on that company's own site on 18 September 2026, not that the product cannot do it. NBA and NIRF are named by none of the nine other products.
What NAAC actually asks you to assemble
Seven criteria, each asking for evidence you already generate: curricular aspects, teaching and learning, research and extension, infrastructure, student support, governance, and institutional values. The failure mode is not missing data; it is data that exists but sits in four inboxes and a dozen spreadsheets, so the submission becomes a term of typing.
NAAC has also proposed moving to binary accreditation — a simple "accredited or not" first, then graded maturity levels. Keeping evidence current rather than assembling it once every five years matters more, not less, under that model. Our note is at NAAC's move to binary accreditation.
What iVake publishes for this
- NAAC, criterion by criterion. Criterion-wise data sets with every figure linked to the records it came from, not typed into a spreadsheet.
- Outcome attainment for NBA. Course and programme outcomes (CO/PO/PSO) computed from the live grade book, with attainment levels and gaps updating as the term runs.
- AISHE, AICTE and university returns generated from the same student record, so the number you file matches the number in your own system.
- Activities kept whole. Seminars, NSS, extension work and MoUs filed together with proposal, attendance, report and outcome.
More on the accreditation page.
Where iVake is not the obvious pick
- You only want AICTE/UGC/NAAC reporting named. Skolaro names all three on its college page. If that wording is enough for your tender, read both pages before deciding.
- You are a CBSE school chasing SQAA. MyClassboard publishes SQAA coverage specifically. iVake's accreditation work is built around higher-education frameworks.
- You need a vendor's own accreditation, not its features. iVake has no third-party ratings, awards or certifications to cite. It is new under this name, having been MyLeading Campus.
If you do one thingIn the next demo, ask the vendor to open one NAAC criterion and show the records behind a single percentage. If the number links to nothing, you are looking at a dashboard, not evidence.
NAAC's seven criteria, in plain terms
When a vendor says it "supports NAAC", the test is whether it can hold evidence for the seven criteria NAAC actually grades, not whether the word appears on a page.
- Curricular aspects — syllabi, Board of Studies minutes, how programmes are designed and revised.
- Teaching and learning — attendance, assessment, results, and the attainment of course outcomes.
- Research, innovations and extension — publications, projects, seminars, NSS and extension work, with the supporting records.
- Infrastructure and learning resources — labs, libraries, classrooms, AMC records, asset history.
- Student support and progression — progression, placement, higher study, and the support systems behind them.
- Governance, leadership and management — policies, feedback analysis, audit reports, governance structure.
- Institutional values and best practices — the evidence that the institution does what it says it values.
The failure mode is almost never missing data. It is data that exists — in a register here, an inbox there, a shared drive somewhere — and has to be reassembled from scratch the term before the cycle. A product that collects each criterion's evidence as the year happens turns the Self-Study Report into a report you run, not a project you survive.
Why binary accreditation raises the bar, not lowers it
NAAC has proposed moving to binary accreditation: a simple "accredited or not" in the first stage, then graded maturity levels. That sounds like less paperwork, but it actually demands current evidence — because under a continuous model there is no five-year run-up in which to quietly assemble a submission. The records have to be maintained all year, every year, which is precisely the thing a spreadsheet-driven IQAC cannot do and a record-keeping ERP can. Our longer note is at NAAC's move to binary accreditation.
CO/PO attainment, without the jargon
NBA asks an engineering or professional college to show that students actually achieved the outcomes the programme promised — course outcomes (CO), programme outcomes (PO) and programme-specific outcomes (PSO). The honest way to compute attainment is from the live grade book: which students met which outcome at what level, rolling up from the courses they actually took and the marks they actually got. The spreadsheet way is to type it in once a year and hope nobody checks the underlying rows. A vendor that computes CO/PO from the grade book is selling evidence; a vendor that offers a blank template is selling a form.
Frequently asked questions
Does iVake file the NAAC SSR for my college?
No. The Self-Study Report is filed by your institution. What iVake changes is the source: criterion-wise data sets with every figure linked to the records behind it, so the submission is assembled from evidence you already keep, not retyped into a spreadsheet.
Which vendors name NBA at all?
On the pages we checked on 18 September 2026, none of the nine other products named NBA or NIRF, and NAAC was named once, by Skolaro on its college page. iVake is the only one of the ten that publishes NBA CO/PO attainment and criterion-wise NAAC evidence.
Is CO/PO attainment only for engineering colleges?
NBA outcome attainment is most associated with engineering and professional programmes, but mapping course outcomes to programme outcomes is a useful discipline for any college facing an accreditation or an academic audit. iVake computes it from the live grade book regardless of the framework.
Sources
- Meritto: DEB compliance
- MyClassboard: SQAA
- Fedena: module list, no accreditation body named
- OpenEduCat: features
- Vidyalaya: school ERP; NAAC appears in blog posts, not product pages
- Skolaro: college ERP — AICTE, UGC, NAAC reporting
- Classe365: homepage, degree audit
- Teachmint and Edunext pages named no accreditation body
- iVake: accreditation, binary accreditation
See iVake running on your own data
Share your fee structure and programmes before the call, or sample data with student names removed. We set them up, so you see your own institution on screen rather than a demo account.
- 45 minutes, your data. Not a generic tour of features.
- Migration mapped on the call. We show exactly where your current records land.
- A written rollout plan within two working days, with phases, owners and dates.
- No pressure to switch everything at once. Most schools and colleges start with one department or one intake.