About

The Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) is one of India's pioneering Sanskrit Universities in terms of teaching, research, and innovation. The University of Kerala was founded at Kalady in 1993. The University's fundamental goals are to teach Sanskrit, other Indian and foreign languages, social sciences, and fine arts. Throughout its twenty-five years of existence, the University has established itself as one of Kerala's most promising research institutions in Sanskrit, as well as Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts. The University sees a peaceful advancement in society via educational excellence as an institution imbued with different cultural heritages and housing both traditional and modern knowledge systems and art forms.

Kerala is home to eight regional campuses of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit. The majority of these campuses are in rural parts of the state and are intended to assist people from low-income families. More than 90% of the University's students and research researchers are from economically and socially disadvantaged neighborhoods and families, and more than 70% are women.

From its foundation, the University has gone through several stages of development, advancing in its quest of greatness and success. In 1993, the University Grants Commission granted it 2(f) status, and in 2005, it was granted 12(B) status. The University was recognized by NAAC with an A grade in September 2014, making it the first university in Kerala to win the honor in the first cycle of accreditation.

 In 2021 the University was reaccredited by NAAC with A+ grade, maintaining the honour that University being the first in Kerala to receive this grade. This accreditation was a rightful appreciation of the University for its two and half -decade long dedication to knowledge generation and dissemination.. At present the University has twenty six PhD Programmes, twenty MPhil Programmes, twenty five Post Graduate Programmes , ten Under Graduate Programmes, two Post Graduate Diploma Programmes, one Diploma Programme and  nine Certificate Programmes offered by the twenty four  academic Departments. The Choice Based Credit and Semester System (CBCSS) was introduced in 2005 in SSUS. In 2018, the University implemented the system of Outcome Based Teaching, Learning and Evaluation (OBTLE) at the Post Graduate level becoming the first University in Kerala to introduce OBTLE. Followed by Under Graduate level. All twenty four Post Graduate Programmes of the University have been restructured and the curriculum and syllabi revised through a series of workshops both at the level of the University and at the Department.