Bhubaneswar: The Ravenshaw University in Cuttack city has been awarded A++ grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission (UGC), becoming the first public university in Odisha to get it.
According to sources, the members of the NAAC committee visited the university and conducted an assessment of its infrastructure, faculties, and other facilities between November 20 and 22.
The NAAC team held an assessment on seven parameters – curricular aspects; teaching-learning and evaluation; research, innovations, and extension; infrastructure and learning resources; student support and progression; governance, leadership and management, and institutional values and best practices.
Adding a new feather to its cap, Ravenshaw University has received a grade point of 3.73 in curricular aspects, 3.19 in teaching-learning and evaluation, 3.5 in research, innovations and extension, 3.85 in infrastructure and learning resources, 3.75 in student support and progression, 3.58 in governance, leadership and management and 3.91 in the institutional values and best practices.
The NAAC has awarded a total criterion-wise weightage grade point (CrWGP) of 3,582 out of 1000 weightage, sources said.
The Britishers had established Ravenshaw College in 1868. The college was granted an autonomous status in the 1990s and finally upgraded to become a unitary university in 2006.