vadodara the national board of accreditation nba has granted accreditation to the civil engineering and computer science and engineering graduate courses at ms universitys faculty of technology and engineering for three years the accreditation will help past and future students get better job opportunities and higher education in reputed foreign and national institutes the faculty had applied to nba for accreditation of the two engineering degree courses an expert team from nba visited the faculty for three days in january elaborate preparations were made by the faculty for the visit that culminated in the granting of accreditationnba is an independent body responsible for evaluation of academic activities of various engineering courses nba evaluates the academic performance in terms of 10 different criteria such as quality of teaching and learning process quality of faculties academic performance and placement of students research and consultancy infrastructure administration and governance as well as others besides better opportunities in higher education and jobs the nba accreditation to the two departments will also open other avenues such as research funding from aicte increased intake of students and grants for infrastructure in these departments the faculty will also apply for nba accreditation of other courses in the coming months