The University Grants Commission (UGC) Nepal has launched the Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) program, as an important aspect of reform in higher education in Nepal.
According to UGC, Accreditation aims to provide quality assurance that the academic aims and objectives of the institution are known to be honestly pursued and effectively achieved by mobilizing the resources currently available and that the institution has demonstrated capabilities to ensure the effectiveness of the educational programme(s), over the validity period of accreditation.
So far UGC has awarded QAA Certificates to only to 53 Colleges which list is given here:
