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Manipal University
Manipal University
Motto	Inspired by Life
Established	1953
Type	Private
President	Dr. Ramdas M Pai
Location	Manipal, Karnataka, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	UGC AICTE
Website	Manipal.edu

Manipal University, formerly known as Manipal Academy of Higher Education or MAHE for short, is a deemed university in Manipal, Karnataka, India.

It has over 125,000 students from over 50 countries in the main campus located in Manipal as well as sister campuses in Sikkim (India), Nepal and Melaka (Malaysia).

It has several constituent colleges. Manipal offers programs in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, biotechnology, allied health sciences, architecture, engineering, management, hospitality, jewellery design, management and mass communication & regenerative medicine.

The university has international academic collaborations for twinning programs in engineering, medicine, biomedical, communication with universities in the US, Australia, Germany, Nepal and other academic organizations.

[edit] History

Manipal University Administrative and Library Building

Starting with Kasturba Medical College in 1953, Dr T. M. A. Pai went on to found several colleges specialising in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, allied health sciences and engineering. These constituent colleges that were originally affiliated to Mangalore University.

In 1993, the Government of India granted "Deemed university" status through an Act of UGC and the Manipal Academy for Higher Education (MAHE) was established .

Since December 2006 the name was officially changed to Manipal University, as the word academy did not indicate the status of a university.

[edit] Constituent Colleges

Manipal University (MU) has 20 constituent colleges:

Medical
- Kasturba Medical College Manipal
- Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
- KMC International Center, Manipal
- Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Science, Gangtok
- Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal campus, (also known as the International Centre for Health Sciences (ICHS)); Melaka Manipal Medical College, Malaysia campus
- Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal

Research
- Manipal Life Science Center, Manipal

Dental
- Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal
- Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore

Nursing
- Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal

Allied Health
- Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal

Pharmacy
- Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal

Engineering

Information Science
- Manipal Center for Informational Science

Management
- Business Management
  - Manipal Institute of Management
- Hotel Management
  - Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration
- Jewellery Management
  - Manipal Institute of Jewellery Management

Communication & Journalism
- Manipal Institute of Communication

Regenerative Medicine
- Manipal Institute of Regenerative Medicine

[edit] Facilities and Clubs

Kasturba Medical College Greens in Manipal

The campuses have playgrounds and courts for cricket, hockey, football, tennis, basketball, badminton and volleyball. There are swimming pools, gym and an athletics track. Students can join clubs for music and fine arts, literary pursuits, meditation, yoga and debating and photography.

MU also has a chapter of SPIC MACAY, which stages an annual festival Virasat, presenting luminaries of Indian dance and music. Various foreign language classes are also conducted regularly and there is a no smoking policy on campus.

[edit] Teaching Hospitals

[edit] Karnataka

Manipal
- Kasturba Hospital
- Shirdi Sai Baba Cancer Hospital

Mangalore
- KMC Hospital Attavar
- KMC Hospital, Ambedkar Circle
- Govt Lady Goschen Hospital
- Govt Wenlock Hospital
- Abhaya Ashraya Hospital

Udupi
- Dr. TMA Pai Hospital
- Udupi Government Hospital

Karkala
- Dr. TMA Pai Rotary Hospital, Karkala

[edit] Goa

Manipal Goa Cancer and General Hospital

[edit] List of Vice Chancellors

No	From	To	Name	Position previously held
1	1st Jun 1993	17th Jun 1999	Dr. M S Valiathan	Professor of Cardiac surgery and Director of Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences FRCS
2	18th Jun 1999	30th Aug 2003	Dr. B. M. Hegde	Professor of Clinical Medicine and Head of the Dept. of Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore MD, FAMS, FRCP(London), FRCP(Glasgow), FRCP(Edin.), FRCP(Dublin), FACC(USA)
3	1st Sep 2003	30th Aug 2005	Dr. H. S. Ballal	Professor, Department of Radio-Diagnosis (Head) and Dean of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore MBBS MD
4	1st Sep 2005	*	Dr. Rajasekharan P. Warrier	Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Medical Center—New Orleans MBBS MD (LSU)

[edit] External links

Manipal University Official Site

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