Overview
- Savitribai Phule Pune University fell to 91 in NIRF 2025 from 37 last year, with its perception score at 16.61 after an unusual 24.29 in 2024.
- At the 126th convocation, Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil linked the drop to campus agitations and a hiring freeze, and warned of damage to foreign student interest.
- Published NIRF figures show SPPU’s perception metric has mostly stayed around 15–17 since 2018, undercutting claims of a new perception-driven decline.
- The Teaching, Learning & Resources score has slid from 70.70 in 2018 to 51.46 in 2025, aligning with long-running vacancies of about 111–113 approved faculty posts for roughly 18 months.
- The university Senate began deliberations on corrective steps, including recruitment plans and proposals such as an NIRF monitoring dashboard, research grants, and low-cost student insurance.