In the recent round of accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, the university secured a score of 3.59, an improvement from 3.32.
The UGC came up with a regulation for graded autonomy around five years ago.
The main benefit is that category I universities can start programmes without the UGC’s approval, and they need to only report it to the UGC.
The UGC (Categorisation of universities for grant of graded autonomy regulations) 2018 Committee recognised 60 institutions across the country that year as category I.