Manipal Institute of Technology

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Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT Manipal)
Motto: "Knowledge is Power"
Established: 1957
Type: Private
Undergraduates: 3500
Location: Manipal, Karnataka, Flag of India
Website: MIT Manipal

Manipal Institute of Technology, also known as M.I.T. Manipal or simply M.I.T., and formerly Manipal Engineering College or MEC, is a private college of engineering and technology located in Manipal, Karnataka, India. It is one of the constituent colleges that make up Manipal University (formerly, MAHE), based in Manipal. It awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in various fields of study. A sister campus of the institute is located in Sikkim, India.

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[edit] History

MIT Manipal was established in 1957 as Manipal Engineering College, and renamed in 1974. It was founded by Dr. T.M.A. Pai, the founder of the town of Manipal and many of its present-day institutions. It was the first privately funded technical institute in India[citation needed].

Civil engineering was the first discipline to be offered at the institute, but by 1961, full undergraduate programs were also available in the areas of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. The first in-campus hostels (dorms) were established in 1961 for students from outside the region. The college has steadily grown in size as well as scope since its inception. Today, it has the capability to house most of its students on the campus in its fifteen different hostel (dorm) buildings, and can be considered a fully residential campus.

The institute was originally affiliated to the Karnataka University in Dharwad. In 1965, the institute affiliated itself with the Mysore University in Mysore. More courses were added over the decades as the college expanded. In 1974, it was renamed and brought under the purview of Mangalore University, and this status would continue until the establishment of MAHE (now Manipal University) in the late 1990s. Since 2000, the college has been designated a deemed university, a status that allows it to operate autonomously without affiliations to larger universities and charge fees or capitation.

In 1993, the state government of Karnataka introduced statewide measures regulating the intake of students to private institutes, including MIT Manipal, and this had a tremendous financial impact on the college because it also meant that the fee structure was regulated by the government. The college was designated a Linguistic Minority Institute status between 1993 and 1999, which meant that a significant fraction of the intake was reserved for those students whose native tongue was Konkani.

The Dalai Lama visited the college in 1966.

[edit] Admissions

[edit] Undergraduate degrees

MIT Manipal offers undergraduate (Bachelor's degree) courses in the following disciplines:

General admissions are open to Indian nationals on the basis of performance in the All India MAHE Under Graduate Entrance Test (UGET). Usually, only candidates who have scored 50% or more in the UGET are considered for admissions. The test consists of sections in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and English and includes questions based on standard high school syllabi in India. Testing takes place annually in major cities across India. Admissions to the architecture program are based on a separate test.

International students follow different admission procedures and are subject to different fee structures.

Students may choose to enroll in the Twinning Program wherein the first two years of their coursework are undertaken at International Centre for Applied Sciences, Manipal and the remainder are completed at a college or university in the United States or Australia or UK. The eventual degree will be awarded by the foreign university.

[edit] Postgraduate degrees

Master of Technology (M.Tech) degrees are offered with the following specializations:

In addition, the following programs are also offered:

Admissions to these programs are either on the basis of an entrance exam or based on performance in an undergraduate degree program. All applicants are required to have appropriate bachelor's degrees.

The institute also offers Ph.D. programs on a full-time or part-time basis for qualified candidates.

[edit] Statistics

College Building: 403,900 sq.ft Hostel Buildings: 674,415 sq.ft. Staff quarters: 191,576 sq.ft Total land area: 7,384,576 sq.ft

Total hostel (dorm) buildings: 15 Capacity: 3500 Boys: 2264 Ladies: 875

Staff quarters: 327 Capacity of faculty body: 268

[edit] Accreditation

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Manipal University is accredited by the Government of India's National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) . [1].

The Institute was ranked 13th in the country in the field of engineering education by The Telegraph Calcutta[citation needed]. In 2007 MIT was ranked as India's 6th best private Engineering College by The Outlook [1] and also by India Today[citation needed].

[edit] References

  1. ^ NAAC (2002). Accredited Universities in Karnataka. National Assessment & Accreditation Council.


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