Methodology for SWOT Analysis of Institutions for preparing IDPs under RUSA Scheme

Step 1: Selection of issues/problems for SWOT Analysis

Step2: Collection of Past and present primary and secondary data of your
Institution, other competing institutions and employing
industries/business/trade.
Step 3: Collection of opinions, remarks, complaints from all stakeholders of
your institution (students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni,
industrialists/employers, local community leaders, suppliers) and
documentation of proceedings
Step 4: Analytics of Data collected.
Step 5: Inferences and conclusions in terms of Strength, Weakness, Threat and
Opportunity (SWOT)
Step 6: Drawing Institutional Developmental objectives
Step 7: Identification of activities to fulfil objectives and to Finding solutions
for problems
Step 8: Selection of the best actions in terms of cost, time and institutional
capacities for planning strategies.
Step 9: Developing Action Plans by Setting goals and developing key indicators
for measuring success
Step 10: setting timelines and working budget requirement for each of action
plans
Step 11: intermittent evaluation and review for intermittent course correction
Step 12: Integration of SWOT and its follow up into IDP





Methodology of SWOT Analysis
Step 1: Selection of issues/problems for SWOT Analysis
The issues you select must be appreciated by the RUSA Technical Support Group which is going to
evaluate your IDP and awards marks for each of the above steps. The strategy action plans and their
achievements should be measurable and for which key indicators are necessary. Therefore it is
advisable to select those criteria against which the IDP is going to be evaluated and used for setting
goals and performance indicators targets etc are given by State Higher Education Council/plan
approval board. RUSA emphasises mainly the following issues namely, Governance issues, Academic
excellence issues, equity issues, research and innovation issues, student facility issues, infrastructure
and other related issues.
Step2: Collection of Past and present primary and secondary data of your Institution, other
competing institutions and employing industries/business/trade.
Faculty Positions vacant Collect data on total sanctioned posts in each subject each cadre and
actually filled positions and vacant positions. Find out percent vacancy position and compare with
RUSA norms of 15% maximum. Also find out how many posts were filled during last three years and
give your remarks.

Non-permanent faculty: Collect data on number of guest faculty, contract teachers who are non
permanent staff and find out their percentage by using the formula.

Non-teaching staff to teaching Staff: collect the total number of teaching staff and total
nonteaching staff and find out the ratio of teaching to nonteaching staff which should be 1:1.1.

Total no of under graduation programs: List all the undergraduate programmes at all levels and
record it.

Total no of post graduate programs: Similarly list all the post graduate programmes including
Masters courses and post graduate diploma courses and find out their total numbers

Total no of doctoral programs: List out all the Doctoral programmes in which institution is guiding
and offering PhD degrees and find out their number.

Faculty appointment-turn around/cycle time: as vacancy arises the institution has to fill up the
vacancy. If it is filled by recruitment what is the total time taken for reporting vacancy advertisement
calling applications, interview, selection of candidates and appointment and reporting of candidate
to fill the vacancy. The total time taken for all these activities put together is faculty appointment
turnaround time.
in months

Delay in payment of monthly salary payment of faculty: how many time in a year the faculty gets
their salary later than the month end and how long it is delayed needs to be recorded.




ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Delay in exam conduction and declaration of results: How many times there was delay in holding
examinations against the stipulated time table of examination. How many times the college has declared
results later than stipulated time schedule or calendar of annual events.

Plagiarism: How many dissertations and research papers have been checked for plagiarism and found to
be plagiaristic fully or partially?

Accreditation: What is the grade obtained in assessment and accreditation by the institution?

Teacher Student ratio: What is the total Number of teachers of all cadres and types like permanent and
temporary? What is the total student strength in the entire institution during 2012-13? Divide the number of
teachers by number of total students to get the ratio.

Percent of Visiting professor :

% of graduates employed by convocation

% Number of students receiving awards at

National and International level

% of expenditure on Library, cyber library and laboratories per year

Ratio of expenditure on teaching staff salaries to non-teaching staff salaries

% of faculty covered under pedagogical training

% of faculty involved in further education

Dropout rate 1.5%
No of foreign collaborations
Subscription to INFLIBNET
EQUITY INITIATIVE
SC Student% 3.0%
ST Student% 3.0%
Gender Parity 3.0%
Urban to Rural Student population 2.0%
Existence of CASH 0.5%
Existence of Social Protection Cell 0.5%
Language assistance programs for weak
Students

REASERCH AND INNOVATION
Per-faculty publications 2.0%
Cumulative Impact Factor of publication 3.0%
H Index of scholars 2.0%
% of staff involved as principal researcher 1.0%
% of research projects fully or more than 50%
funded by external agencies, industries etc 2.0%
Total no of patents granted 1.0%
% of faculty receiving national/international
awards 1.0%
% of research income 1.0%
Doctoral degrees awarded per academic
staff 1.0%
% doctoral degrees in total number of
degrees awarded 3.0%
% expenditure on research and related
facilities 1.0%
Digitization of Masters and Doctoral thesis 0.5%
UPE/CPE 3.5%
% of Income generated from non-grant
Sources
STUDENT FACILITIES
No of new professional development
programs 1.0%
Existence of Placement Cells and Placement
Policy 1.0%
% of expenditure on infrastructure
maintenance and addition
Availability of hostel per out-station female
student 3.0%
Availability of hostel per out-station male
student 2.0%
% of students on scholarship 2.0%
Average scholarship amount per student 1.0%
Student Experience Surveys 1.0%
Graduate Destination Surveys
Infrastructure and Others
%Income generated from training courses 1.0%
% Income generated from consulting 1.0%
Infrastructural suffi ciency 3.0%
Computer coverage 3.0%
Internet connectivity of Campus