NIRF ‘perception’ score aiding demand for courses offered by Maharaja’s College

Among the six govt. colleges in Kerala that figured in the first 100 positions, Maharaja’s College has highest score of 18.8

The score earned by the autonomous Maharaja’s College under the ‘perception’ parameter in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) seems to have generated increased demand for admission from students from across the State in the new academic year.

The first and second phase of the allotment for undergraduate programmes showed a spike in the number of aspirants from the northern districts. “We have students from Malappuram, Kozhikode, and Kasaragod applying for courses of their choice. Around 30% of the seats have been filled at the end of the first allotment for the nearly 720 seats available for 21 undergraduate courses,” said Zeenath N.A., faculty member of the Department of Physics and in-charge of admissions.

Among the six government colleges in the State that figured in the first 100 positions in the latest NIRF rankings, Maharaja’s College has the highest score of 18.8 out of 100 under the parameter of ‘perception’. The perception score of University College, Thiruvananthapuram, that had figured 25th in the rank list, was 14.37 while the corresponding figure of Government Women’s College (rank 46) was 13.42.