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The study undertaken was analysis the perceptions of head teachers about professional level of teachers for quality improvement in degree colleges of Punjab. Quality has attained paramount importance in 21th century. A quality higher education system is essential to the successful development and functioning of an open and democratic. It was quantitative study the nature of the study was descriptive and survey type. All principals of degree colleges in government degree colleges of Punjab was population of the study. From the above mentioned population, the sample of the study was selected at three stages. At first stage, 09 districts out of all 36 districts of Punjab were selected randomly. At the second stage, one male degree college and one female degree college from each district, total 18 colleges (09 male +09 female) were selected as sample of the study. At the third stage, one principal of each sample was systematically selected from each college. Strata sampling technique was used in the selection of the sample. Self-made questionnaires were used heads of the institutes. Validity of the research tools were ensured through expert opinions while the reliability of the questionnaires for this study were determined through the Cronbach Alpha. The questionnaires were administered through prepaid postage and e-mail to the respective respondents but where applicable these were handed over to the respondents personally and through friends. The male respondents were also reminded through telephone calls. Data was cleaned and codified before undertaking its statistical analysis with the help of SPSS. Statistical tools including mean, standard deviation and t-test was used for this purpose.

Keywords: Perceptions, Principals, Professional Level, Quality Improvement.