Criterion 8 – Output and Outcomes

Criterion 8 – Output and Outcomes

Operational Result

8.1 The pass rate, dropout rate, and average time to graduate are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.

The BBA- AR program has a good foundation for the student’s study growth. The program committee monitors the student’s progression and dropouts to identify the necessary actions to improve the students and stabilize the students who joined the program.

The program committee meeting decided to take the initiative along with the marketing team to improve the student intake. So, all the lecturers were deputed to coordinate with the marketing team to guide the new students when they visit the college. The program committee conducts the orientation program every year to explain about the opportunities in the aviation field and career guidance to the AR students. So, the dropout is minimized, and the students are focused to join the core industries for their internships and jobs.

Pass Rate Analysis:

Academic Batch	Total Students	Students Passed	Pass Rate (%)
2017 – 2021	7	7	100
2018 – 2022	19	19	100
2019 – 2023	20	20	100
2020 – 2024	14	14	100

 

Dropout Rate Analysis:

Academic Year	Total Enrolled	Students Dropped out	Dropout Rate (%)
2020	52	38	73.07
2021	6	5	83.33
2022	6	6	100
2023	2	1	50
2024 (Intensive)	2	–	–

 

Average Time to Graduate Analysis:

Academic Batch	Total Graduates	Average Time to Graduate (in years)
2017 – 2021	7	4
2018 – 2022	19	4
2019 – 2023	20	4
2020 – 2024	14	4

 

8.2 Employability as well as self-employment, entrepreneurship, and advancement to further studies, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.

The college has a vision to provide graduates to have successful careers and a quality of life. Followed by the college’s vision and mission, the AR major implemented teaching strategies to provide 100 % core employment opportunities. So, the year 4 students’ emphasis to find the core companies for their internship training to get the knowledge to attain the industry standard to get a job easily. This strategy helped students to join the core companies like cargo, loadmasters in airlines, flight dispatching, and ground operations. Few students shows their interest to do higher studies to improve their aeronautics skills at the next level.

Employability Analysis:

Academic Batch	Total Graduates	Employed Graduates	Employment Rate (%)
2017 – 2021	7	7	100
2018 – 2022	19	18	94.74
2019 – 2023	20	15	75.00
2020 – 2024	14	10	71.43

 

Self-employment and Entrepreneurship Analysis:

Academic Batch	Total Graduates	Self-employed/Entrepreneurs	Self-employment Rate
2017 – 2021	7	7	0
2018 – 2022	19	0	0
2019 – 2023	20	5	25
2020 – 2024	14	4	28.57

 

Advancement to further studies Analysis:

Academic Batch	Total Graduates	Graduates pursuing further studies	Advancement Rate (%)
2017 – 2021	7	0	0
2018 – 2022	19	1	5.26
2019 – 2023	20	0	0
2020 – 2024	14	1	7.14

8.3 Research and creative work output and activities carried out by the academic staff and students, are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.

The lecturers are doing quality research work every year with respect to their area of interest in the AR major. The research is integrated with their teaching subjects to discuss with the students to give more advanced knowledge in their field. The students also gain new normal learning skills from the lecturer’s research work.  The college research office assesses the lecturer’s research work to guide and give suggestions to complete the research successfully in terms of college standards. The lecturers are assigning integrated project work/ concern subject project works to improve the student’s learning skills, academic innovation, information, media and literacy skills. The student’s project/presentation works are evaluated by the subject experts from the major, other department faculty members, and management persons. By this evaluation method, students are improving their confidence level to do the presentation when they undergo the internship and the job. The major head and lecturer conducted the meetings/ workshops to improve the teaching and learning skills, TQF3 & TQF5, quality measurements of the internship, and knowledge sharing. Two lecturers submitted their research work to the internal committee to get approval.

• Aj. Hari completed a research paper but waiting for the publisher’s response.
• Aj. Praveen and Aj. Mari Prabu jointly wrote a research paper and awaiting for publisher’s
  response too.
• Aj. Mari Prabu had wrote a book chapter titled “Use of Virtual Reality to Understand and
  experience virtual illusions while flying “ in the book “Innovative Pedagogy and Learner
  Centric Approaches in the Digital Era”.

Research Publications Analysis:

Academic Year	Total Publications	Publications Growth Rate
2019 – 2020	2	100
2020 – 2021	1	100
2021 – 2022	1	100
2022 – 2023	3	100
2023 – 2024	0	0

8.4 Data are provided to show directly the achievement of the programme outcomes, which are established and monitored.

To enhance the creativity and innovation skills of the students, the projects are assigned to use their subject knowledge in order to improve their creativity which is used in the real-time environment.

To improve the student’s cognitive skills, the lecturers assign assignments based on real-time situations, on a case-study basis, and study visits.

The students are experienced with the flight computer, simulator, preparing the PPT and project books by using computers, using the tabs to do their class works, and homework which helped to improve the student’s numerical and information literacy skills.

Students performed well during the internship with the help of their skills. So, they easily enter into the core industries/departments like airport operations, cargo operations, ground operations, loadmaster in airlines, logistics, etc.,

Some of the students started their own businesses to become an entrepreneurs. One student has undergone higher studies. Based on the student’s achievements the program learning outcome is obtained a satisfactory level with an overall score of 4 out of 5.

8.5 Satisfaction level of the various stakeholders are shown to be established, monitored, and benchmarked for improvement.

The satisfaction of the stakeholders is important to improve the curriculum and bridge the gap between the classroom and industry. To enhance the quality of the department, the AR major collected the stakeholder survey to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the classroom teaching learning skills. The other stakeholder’s needs were gathered through multiple methods that were appropriate for each group, such as discussions with current students, interviews with graduates & alumni, and interviews with supervisors, they surveyed the employers for their opinions regarding the graduates’, alumni’s performance, interviewed the academic staff of each course and the evaluation from the current graduates. All information was analyzed and categorized into formulated PLOs, which were congruent with the needs of the stakeholders.