Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC)
Institutional Strengths
- A proactive and committed management with gifted leadership
- Highly skilled, qualified and dedicated faculty
- Choice based credit semester system (CBCSS)
- Service-minded administrative and supporting staff
- Spacious, eco-friendly, clean and serene campus
- Motivated students
- Adequate infrastructure with upgraded facilities
- Student representation from diverse sections of society
- Accorded Star status by Department of Biotechnology
- Value-based curriculum
- 16 smart classrooms
- A large number of scholarships and free ships
- Effective mentoring system
- Participatory management
- In -house counselling services
- Strong NSS units
- Large number of extension activities
- Remedial coaching and bridge courses
- Active clubs and associations
- Very good teacher-student rapport
- Student Induction Program
- Active alumnae association and PTWA
- Active career guidance and placement cell
- Well-stocked and spacious library
- INFLIBNET/N-List and broad band connectivity for staff and students
- Separate hostel facilities for UG and PG students
- Ramp in self-financing block
- Student Amenity centre
- Soft skill and life skill classes
- Additional Skill Acquisition Program (ASAP)
- Student Support Program (SSP) for slow learners
- Walk with the Scholar Program (WWS) for advanced learners
- Civil service orientation program
- Entrepreneurial and leadership training
- Effective feedback system
- State-of-the-art conference halls
- E-governance system
- Non-conventional energy run campus (solar, biogas)
- National/International seminars/invited talks
- Playground and track
Institutional Weakness
- Lesser opportunities for research departments due to self-financing PG departments
- More aided PG and UG courses needed
- More permanent faculty need to be appointed
- Institutional autonomy has not yet been granted and lack of RUSA funding even though the college has secured 3.55 CGPA in the last cycle of accreditation
- Consultancy and patent generation needs to be strengthened
- The lack of student exchange programs due to scarcity of funds as the college is a non-profit institution needs to be addressed
- More national/international collaborations should be initiated
Institutional Opportunities
- Potential to become an autonomous institution
- Promotion of start-ups and other innovative measures
- International and inter-disciplinary research to be promoted
- Collaborations can be strengthened
- NET/JRF classes can be initiated
Institutional Challenges
- Semi-urban locality with students from rural background and first-generation learners
- Low career orientation and ambition among students because of social circumstances and early marriages
- Minimal interest in employability among the student community due to social restrictions and other familial reasons
- Continued budget reductions by Government agencies for education
- Intensive competition from autonomous and self-financing institutions
- Improve student intake
- More public and academic visibility
