manipal the nirf ranking certificates 2018 were distributed to the respective constituent units of manipal academy of higher education at a function here on saturdaythe vice chancellor dr h vinod bhat while expressing his happiness at the exceptional performance this year by the varsity and the colleges was hopeful of doing even better in the years to comewhile mentioning the steady progress over the last three years in the nirf rankings done by the union hrd ministry bhat said that the improvement in the rankings of not only the university but the colleges too was creditable because there were many more institutions in the competition this year than in the previous yearslast year we had seven universities ahead of us this year there is just one and the next year there will be none he said with a measure of confidence he also announced that mahe was ranked number one for the third consecutive time in the next issue of the education world magazine speaking about individual colleges he appreciated the progress made by the two kasturba medical colleges in manipal and mangaluru which were ranked fourth and 16th respectively he praised manipal college of pharmaceutical sciences for being able to hold on to its seventh position and congratulated faculty of architecture for getting the 10th rank incidentally foa is the only private architecture college among the top ten praising manipal institute of technology for moving up in the rankings 39th now he hoped the institute would do better the next time roundpro chancellor dr h s ballal congratulated all who contributed to the excellent performances and hoped the rankings would be better next year earlier registrar dr narayan sabhahit welcomed the gathering and pro vice chancellor dr poornima baliga proposed the vote of thanks