Author(s): Rajni Pathak and Sanjay Pawar
In India, it is vital for an educational institution to prioritize the factors that drive the student’s choice during enrollment in higher education and accreditation is also one of the factor. (Mike Molesworth, 2011).The focus of this paper is to understand the effect of accreditation on the student enrollment in higher education from student fraternity in Pune city. The study is based on descriptive and exploratory research and to accomplish the above said objective, researcher use quantitative approach. The research was conducted in the HEI’s, colleges and universities providing graduate and post graduate courses located in the Pune city, as it is one of the education hub in India where many HEI and Universities with all streams like management, hospitality, engineering, medical are available. The limitation of this study is the researcher was unable to reach all academician and students of various college of Pune due to COVID. The research provides an understanding into the relevance of accreditation during student enrollment in higher education institute and colleges to all the stakeholders. Till now very less research is done to understand the impact of accreditation during student enrollment in college and institutes esp in Pune city.