The World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA) is culmination of various initiatives undertaken by the NBA to create an environment for imparting world-quality technical and professional education in Indian campuses. The Summit, first organised in 2012, is a biennial event that provides a platform to stakeholders to share information on new vistas of accreditation. WOSA enables a diverse sets of global organizations / institutions committed to quality education to join hand and work towards evolving a borderless common benchmarks and standards in teaching and learning. In a fast emerging global society, common quality benchmarks would greatly help in promoting research, leadership and mutual learning across the technical, management and other professional campuses, which, in turn, helps seamless mobility during academic studies and supporting students take up career with industry. Beginning with the First WOSA in 2012, NBA has organised the following four Summits in the past:

• The first summit was organised in March 2012 on the theme "Achieving Excellence through Accreditation".
• The second summit was organised in March 2014 on the theme "International Recognition of Educational Qualifications".
• The third summit was organised in March 2016 on the theme "Quality Assurance through Outcome Based Accreditation".
• The fourth summit was organised in Sept. 2018 on the theme "Challenges and Opportunities in Outcome Based Accreditation".

All the four summits were well received, appreciated and welcomed by academicians, industry and policy - makers and attended by around 800 participants, each time.

The WOSA brings together eminent speakers from industry, corporate and academia from India and overseas to facilitate free discussion on subjects relating to best practices in accreditation and means to improve quality of education through these practices. Besides, WOSA also invites high quality papers on research in quality improvement and assessment, best practices in accreditation, technology interventions, etc. related to the themes and sub-themes of the Summit for a given year.

Participants

• Educational institutions aiming for quality assurance and quality enhancement
• Industry and corporate willing to contribute to improvement in quality of education and produce industry relevant graduates
• Policymakers
• Educational Administrators
• Eminent scholars having interest in professional education