Section 3(3) in All India Council for Technical Education (Categorization of Standalone Institutions for Grant of Graded Autonomy) Guidelines, 2019
3.1Category-I Standalone Institution. - Standalone Institution shall be in Category-I if;(i)a. The Institute is running 3 or less than 3 numbers of courses, then all the courses must be NBA accredited with a 75% or more score.b. the institute is running 4 courses then at least 3 courses must be NBA accredited with a 75% or more score.c. the institute is running 5 or more than 5 courses, say N number, then at least N-2 courses must be NBA accredited with a 75% or more score.orii. the institute is ranked within the first 100 ranks in Global MBA Rankings in at least one of the ranking schemes viz., the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA Ranking or the QS Global MBA Ranking.
