Cognia

Utpal Shanghvi Global School becomes the first school in Maharashtra to earn US based Cognia Accreditation.

Cognia, with it’s headquarters in Georgia, USA, is the consortium of 3 of the largest, oldest
and most prestigious US Regional Accreditors, each with a glorious history of over a 100
years. SACS CASI, NCA CASI & NWAC together accredit over 40,000 schools, school
districts, school corporations in 85 countries, positively impacting the lives of millions of
educators and students. Cognia in the world of school accreditation is similar to the
Olympics in sports and Utpal Shanghvi Global School, backed by a visionary Managing
Council and fabulous team of dedicated staff, has become the first school in Maharashtra to
have secured accreditation by them.
This accreditation in such a short period of time was no mean feat, but our robust systems
and processes were in place, so all we had to do was to align them to meet the expected
parameters set by Cognia. Since our systems were already in place, we immediately moulded
our way of working with their processes and took to them like a duck to water. It was an
amazing learning process and within a short span of less than 15 months of initiating the
process we bridged the gap between candidacy to accreditation. Cognia representatives
visited our school multiple times and thoroughly scrutinized the priocesses based on a set of
rigorous standards while conducting several on-site visits and trainings. The process of
accreditation also took into account our achievement portfolio which has been exemplary. It
also took into consideration how we have consistently fared as an academic institution and
what kind of teaching and learning efforts we invest in our students on a daily basis. We are
proud to say that we excelled on all these parameters, which worked in our favour, and
helped us secure the accreditation in record time. Apart from this, they found us to be the
flagship of quality in education and were impressed with the enthusiasm we
demonstrated.
The direct beneficiaries of this accreditation are our students, for whom it is a door- opener.
They will consequently have access to a wider range of choices in studies, especially in
the US, a wider array of career choices and life at large. This accreditation has put our
school on the global map of education and our journey towards excellence thus
continues…