The Higher Education Commission anticipates that Higher Education Institutions will work towards achieving excellence through continuous improvements in their quality and effectiveness. In the regard HEC has taken a significant initiative performance based institutional recognition and started up with primary step of outlining the Performance Evaluation Standards for the HEIs to be used for the purpose.

The Institutional Performance Evaluation (IPE) comes under purview of the HEC whereas this process is informed by the results of IQA practice done by the HEIs through the adoption of the University Quality Standards and Assessment Model. The result of University Quality Standards and Assessment Model thus corresponds to the process of Performance Evaluation Standards.

The description of these Standards is as under: