{"id":94457,"date":"2025-10-16T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=94457"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:53:37","slug":"mg-university-tops-kerala-in-times-higher-education-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/mg-university-tops-kerala-in-times-higher-education-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"MG University tops Kerala in Times Higher Education Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/mg-university-tops-kerala-in-times-higher-education-ranking\/image_1760421115177\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-94465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_1760421115177-300x148.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1058\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_1760421115177-300x148.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_1760421115177-1024x506.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_1760421115177-768x379.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_1760421115177.jpeg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\" \/><\/a>Mahatma Gandhi University has once again reaffirmed its academic excellence in the Times Higher Education Rankings for 2026.<br \/>\nThe university , which is the first University in India to be named after the Father of the nation ,has secured a place in the 501\u2013600 band, maintaining its distinction as the highest-ranked institution in Kerala and secured ninth position in India. The University secured 43.6 to 46.5 overall points.<br \/>\nCochin University of Science and Technology, which came second in Kerala is placed in the rank of 1001 -1200 with 32.1 to 35.4 overall points .<br \/>\nUniversity of Kerala came third in the state with 1201-1500 band. KU has an overall score of 27.3 -32 points.<br \/>\nIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, founded in 1909, is the highest rated University in India in THE rankings with 201 -250 band.<br \/>\nOxford University retains the number one spot for the tenth consecutive year, driven by its strong research environment score.<\/p>\n<p>The Times Higher Education evaluation covered 2,191 higher education institutions across 115 countries, assessing them on multiple criteria including teaching environment, research standards, quality of research, international outlook , and partnerships with industries.<br \/>\nIndia now has the second highest number of ranked universities for the first time, behind only the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi University has once again reaffirmed its academic excellence in the Times Higher Education Rankings for 2026. The university , which is the first University in India to be named after the Father of the nation ,has secured a place in the 501\u2013600 band, maintaining its distinction as the highest-ranked institution in Kerala and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94466,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94457\/revisions\/94466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}