Mangaluru: Deralakatte’s Nitte University has bagged the 77th rank in the National Institutional ranking frame work (NIRF) ranking list on the country’s almost 800 universities. This list was released by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on April 3rd.

Last time, Nitte University was on the 83rd position. This year it has come up by six positions. It has achieved the 9th position I public contact and equality parameters. Nitte Gulabi Shetty Memorial Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a constituent college of Nitte University located at Paneer has secured the 25th position on the national front.

In NIRF ranking, marks are allotted to the universities based on the following parameters including Teaching, Learning & Resources, Research and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity and perception.

This ranking was started from the year 2016 to improve education quality, better performance in education, to set up benchmarks and promote healthy competition between educational institutions.