The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has given the Dr BR Ambedkar Open University the A++ grade in the first round of its ranking.
This is the only state university that has got A++ and it has also become Indias first state open university to get this grade.
NAAC gave theIndian Institute of Teacher Education(IITE) the B grade.
In the second week of this month, NAAC teams had carried out inspections of universities that had applied for ranking.
Sources said most universities inGujaratdo not apply for ranking.