Type Public Campus Urban Phone 0824 228 7276 Motto Knowledge Is Light Vice-chancellor K. Byrappa | Established 1980 Affiliations UGC Founded 10 September 1980 Undergraduate tuition and fees 2,000 INR (2010) | |
Location Konaje, Karnataka, India Website www.mangaloreuniversity.ac.in Address Mangalagangotri, Mangalore, Karnataka 574199 Notable alumni Rajeev Suri, Veerappa Moily, Shashi Kiran Shetty, Sunitha Krishnan, K Ullas Karanth Similar Kuvempu University, University of Mysore, St Aloysius College, Manipal University, Karnatak University | ||
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Mangalore University (MU) is a public university in Konaje, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. MU has jurisdiction over the districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu. The university imparts higher education in field of arts, commerce, science, law and management. In the eighties, prestigious engineering colleges such as the Manipal Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Technology Surathkal were affiliated to Mangalore University. These colleges have since been granted deemed university status by the Government of India and therefore are no longer affiliated to Mangalore University. The university still has several good colleges in the area affiliated to it.
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Location
Mangalore University campus is located at Mangalagangothri 21 km from Mangalore on the southern side.
History
The previous undivided Dakshina Kannada (South canara) district was under jurisdiction of University of Mysore. In the early 1970s there was a growing demand for a local university. A post graduation centre of Mysore university was set up in the late 1970s at Mangaluru. To satisfy the demand for separate university Mangalore University was set up on September 10, 1980. The engineering and medicine disciplines were later transferred to Visvesvaraya Technological University and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences of Karnataka respectively. In 1993, the Manipal associated colleges were transferred to Manipal University.
Academics
As of January 2008, the university had 25 post-graduate departments on the campus, two constituent colleges, four law, 13 education, five autonomous and 119 affiliated colleges/institutions.
It is the first university in the country to start Bachelor's degree programmes in Hotel Management & Tourism, Fashion Design, Apparel/Garment Design, Leather Design & Technology, and Human Resource Development and post-graduate programmes in Computer Software and Yogic Sciences.