The Kerala Institutional Ranking Framework (KIRF) is a set of metrics for the ranking of higher education institutions in the State and is, based on the agreed parameters approved by the KSHEC. The Kerala State Higher Education Council will be the implementing agency and the ranking will be carried out annually.

KIRF shall invite institutions interested to participate in the ranking exercise to register on the KIRF portal. The data should be submitted on an on-line facility created for this purpose. KIRF with the help of KSHEC and other suitably identified partner agencies will also undertake authentication of data, wherever felt necessary, and where feasible.

KIRF will extract the relevant information from this data and through software, compute the various metrics and rank institutions based on this data.