QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAME: (QIP)

The Government of India launched the Quality Improvement Programme in the year 1970.
One of the main objectives of the programme is to upgrade the expertise and capabilities of
the faculty members of the degree level institutions in the country. The programme is now
being implemented and monitored by All India Council for Technical Education. In “Quality
Improvement Programme” only sponsored teachers are eligible for admission to both Masters
and Doctoral Degree Programmes, with the aim to enable the teachers to acquire Master’s/
Doctoral degrees and imbibe in them a culture of research and better teaching educational
capabilities by exposing them to the environment of the institutes of study.
There are three main activities under QIP serving the faculty of degree level engineering
institutions:

 Providing opportunities to faculty members of the degree-level engineering

institutions to improve their qualification by offering admissions to Master’s and
Ph.D. degree Programme
 Organizing Short Term Courses at the Major QIP Centres for serving teachers.
 Curriculum Development (CD) Cell activities which help to improve class room
teaching and learning.

There are total 80 QIP centers in the country under three main verticals.
S. No Category Number of Centre
1. QIP Engineering 60
2. QIP Pharmacy 10
3. QIP Polytechnic 10
QIP Engineering :

There are total 60 QIP centers in engineering stream as per list placed at Annexure.

Major Centers :

The following institutions having QIP Centres offer admission to both Doctoral and Mater’s
Degree Programme in all the disciplines existing with them.

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
6. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
7. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
8. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

(A) Minor Centers

The following institutions are minor centres have been recognized, for offiering
Doctoral & Master’s Degree Programmes, in SOME SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES:

S.No List of Approved QIP Center (Engineering)

1. Anna University, Chennai
2. Basaveshwar Engineering College (Autonomous), Karnataka
3. Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, Howrah
4. BMS College of Engineering, Karnataka
5. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu
6. College of Engineering, Pune Maharashtra
7. College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Department of Technical Education Kerala
8. Delhi Technological University, Delhi
9. Giani Zail Singh College of Engg. & Tech., Punjab
10. Government College of Engineering, Amravati Maharashtra
11. Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad Maharashtra
12. Government College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu
13. Government of Kerala Dept. of Technical Education, Govt. Engineering College,
Kerala
14. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Punjab
15. Harcourt Butler technological Institute, Uttar Pradesh
16. Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
17. Indira Gandhi Institute of Tech., Orissa
18. Jadavpur University, Kolkata
19. Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
20. Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, Uttar Pradesh
21. Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Madhya Pradesh
22. Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
23. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (Deemed University)
24. National Institute of Technology, Agartala
25. National Institution of Technology, Calicut
26. National Institution of Technology, Durgapur
27. National Institution of Technology,Rourkela (Engg.)
28. National Institution of Technology, Silchar, Assam
29. National Institution of Technology, Surathkal
30. National Institution of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
31. National Institution of Technology, Tiruchirapplli, Tamil Nadu
32. National Institution of Technology, Warangal
33. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Dwarka, New Delhi
34. PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh
35. Pondicherry Engineering College. Pondicherry
36. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
37. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Govt. Engineering College, Kerala
38. Ramanujan Computing Centre, Anna University, Chennai
39. S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat Gujarat
40. Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Madhya Pradesh
41. Sant Longowal Institute of Engg. & Tech. Punjab
42. Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai
43. Shri G. S. Institute of Technology & Science, Madhya Pradesh
44. Shri Guru Gobind Singh Institute of Engineering & Technology, Maharashtra
45. The National Institute of Engineering, Karnataka
46. Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Tamil nadu
47. TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala
48. University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore
49. Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha
50. Visvesvraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
51. Walchand College of Engineering Maharashtra.

The following QIP (Poly) Institutions have been recognized, for offering
Doctoral & Master’s Degree Programmes. (Few are repeated in above list)

S.No Name of QIP Centre

1. Jadavpur University, Kolkata
2. National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathakal
3. MBM Engineering College, Jai Naryana Vyas University Jodhpur Rajasthan
4. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
5. National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala

List of QIP Centers in Pharmacy

S. No Institute Name
1. The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara Gujarat
2. Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh
3. J.S.S. College of Pharmacy, Rocklands, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu
4. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal
5. K.L.E’s College of pharmacy, Belgum, Karnataka
6. Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidhalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
7. Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Research, New Delhi
8. Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA Ranchi Jharkhand.
9. Poona College of Pharmcy, Bharati Vidhyapeeth Deemed University Pune
10. Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Science, MAHE Manipal Karnataka

List of QIP Centers in Polytechnic

S.No Institute Name
1. AB Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior
2. Jadavpur University, Kolkata
3. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
4. M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur
5. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
6. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
7. National Institute of Technology, Calicut
8. National Institute of Technology, Surthakal
9. National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli
10. National Institute of Technical Teachers’s Training & Research, Chandigarh