A constituent college of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (estb. 1957), Manipal Institute of Technology has been consistently ranked among the countrys Top 10 engineering colleges and #1 in Karnataka,in the EW India Higher Education Rankings for the past three years – Odeal DSouza Sited on a 162-acre campus atop a plateau overlooking the azure Arabian Sea to the west and forested Western Ghats to the east within Indias university town of Manipal (pop.50, 000) in Karnataka, the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) is a constituent college of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE estb. 1956). Awarded deemed (private) university status in 1993, last month (July) MAHE was proclaimed one of the countrys six Institutes of Eminence by the Union HRD ministry. Manipal Institute of Technology (estb.1957) has been consistently ranked among the countrys Top 10 engineering colleges and #1 in Karnataka, in the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings for the past three years. Notable Manipal Institute of Technology alumni include Satya Nadella, CEO of IT behemoth Microsoft Corp, USA; Rajeev Suri, president of Nokia Corp, Europe; and M. George Muthoot, chairman of the Kochi (Kerala) based Muthoot Finance Ltd. Founded as the Manipal Engineering College (MEC) by legendary educationist-philanthropist Dr. T.M.A Pai (1898 -1979), MEC admitted its first batch of 120 civil engineering students in 1957. Seventeen years later, Dr. Pai christened MEC as Manipal Institute of Technology after an inspirational visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Formerly affiliated with the Karnatak and Mysore universities, in 1980 MIT was brought under the purview of Mangalore University and finally affiliated with MAHE in 2000. Right from the start, our goal has been to provide high-quality industry-focused technical education combining project work, research and in-company internships. I believe its this combination of hands-on curriculums tailored to meet industry needs that has enabled us to produce industry-ready engineers who are welcomed by higher education institutions and corporates in India and around the world, says Dr. Srikanth Rao, director of Manipal Institute of Technology. An alumnus of Manipal and Mysore universities, Rao began his career in industry as a mechanical engineer with Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd, prior to signing up with his alma mater as a professor of mechanical engineering in 1989. In 2012 he was appointed joint director and promoted to the office of director in January this year. Like the neighbouring Kasturba Medical College (KMC, estb. 1953) — also a constituent unit of MAHE — which has established a global reputation (25 percent of all medical practitioners in Malaysia are KMC graduates), Manipal Institute of Technology too has established an international reputation. Almost 10 percent of enrolled students are from ten foreign countries including Tanzania, Oman, Kenya and Saudi Arabia. Moreover faculty and student exchange programmes have been signed up with top-ranked universities worldwide. Among them: Melbourne and National (Australia), Chemnitz (Germany), EFREI — Engineering School of Information and Digital Technologies (France), Nottingham and Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK), and Cincinnati (USA) universities. Currently Manipal Institute of Technology, which has…
