Manipal Academy of Higher Education

The Manipal Academy of Higher Education is a private deemed university whose main campus stands in the university town of Manipal in the Udupi district of Karnataka, India.马尼帕尔高等教育学院（MAHE）是一所私立自治大学，主校区位于印度卡纳塔克邦乌杜皮地区的大学城马尼帕尔。

Founded in 1953 when T. M. A. Pai opened India's first private medical school, it carries the deemed university structure created in 1993 and is also known by its earlier title Manipal University.该校 1953 年由 T. M. A. Pai 创办印度首所私立医学院起家，沿用 1993 年确立的自治大学建制，并以曾用名「马尼帕尔大学」为人所知。

Its network spans campuses at Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur in India and at Dubai and Malaysia, with the Manipal campus alone laid out over 600 acres or 2.4 square kilometres.其办学网络覆盖印度境内的曼格洛尔、班加罗尔、詹谢普尔与境外的迪拜、马来西亚校区，仅马尼帕尔本部就占地 600 英亩（约 2.4 平方公里）。

History

• In 1953 the planter-philanthropist T. M. A. Pai founded the Kasturba Medical College at Manipal, remembered in the institutional record as the first private medical school in India.1953 年，种植业实业家、慈善家 T. M. A. Pai 在马尼帕尔创办卡斯图尔巴医学院，机构记载将其记为印度第一所私立医学院。

• Five years later, in 1958, the same founding group established the Manipal Institute of Technology, which became the engineering arm beside the older medical college.五年后的 1958 年，同一创办团体又设立马尼帕尔理工学院，使之成为与更古老的医学院并列的工学部门。

• In its early decades the institution conferred no degrees of its own, and those were awarded externally, first by Karnataka University at Dharwad and then by the University of Mysore.创校早期该校不自行授予学位，学位先由达尔瓦德的卡纳塔克大学、后由迈索尔大学在外授予。

• From 1980 to 1993 the degrees of the Manipal colleges were awarded by Mangalore University, a transitional affiliation that lasted for thirteen years before the change of status.1980 年至 1993 年间，马尼帕尔各学院的学位由芒格洛尔大学授予，这一过渡性隶属关系延续了十三年才迎来地位变更。

• The present organisational structure was formed in 1993, when the Kasturba Medical College and the Manipal College of Dental Sciences were accorded deemed university status by the University Grants Commission.现行建制于 1993 年成形，该年大学拨款委员会（UGC）授予卡斯图尔巴医学院与马尼帕尔牙科科学学院自治大学地位。

• In 2000 the Manipal Institute of Technology became a constituent unit of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, joining the medical and dental colleges already inside the academy.2000 年，马尼帕尔理工学院并入马尼帕尔高等教育学院成为其组成学院，与早已在学院之内的医学、牙科两院并列。

• For a period the academy was widely styled Manipal University, a name that still appears in commons media and older directories before the institution returned to its Manipal Academy of Higher Education title.该校一度通称「马尼帕尔大学」（Manipal University），此名至今仍见于共享媒体与较早的名录，其后学校恢复使用马尼帕尔高等教育学院之名。

• Its sister universities, Manipal University Jaipur and Sikkim Manipal University, are separately licensed but all three are managed within the Manipal Education and Medical Group.其姊妹大学——斋浦尔马尼帕尔大学与锡金马尼帕尔大学——各自单独持牌，但三校同由马尼帕尔教育与医疗集团（MEMG）管理。

• At the head of the academy sits Dr. Ramdas Madhava Pai as Chancellor, while Dr. Ranjan Pai holds the office of President and Dr. Hebri Subhaskrishna Ballal that of Pro Chancellor.学院之首由 Ramdas Madhava Pai 博士出任名誉校长（Chancellor），Ranjan Pai 博士任校长（President），Hebri Subhaskrishna Ballal 博士任副名誉校长。

• Day-to-day academic governance is overseen by the Vice Chancellor, an office held by Dr. K. Sharath Rao, who runs the university alongside the Chancellor and President.日常学术治理由副校长主持，此职由 K. Sharath Rao 博士担任，与名誉校长、校长共同管理大学。

• In 2020 the Ministry of Education of the Government of India conferred upon the institution the status of an Institution of Eminence, a competitive designation for world-class standing.2020 年，印度联邦教育部授予该校「卓越机构」（Institution of Eminence）地位，这是一项面向世界一流水准的竞争性认定。

• In 2022 MAHE introduced five online degree and diploma programmes in business administration, data science, business analytics, and logistics and supply chain management.2022 年，该校推出五个在线学位与文凭项目，涵盖工商管理、数据科学、商业分析以及物流与供应链管理。

• Also in 2022 it began UGC-entitled online degrees through the Online Manipal platform, adding an online MBA for working professionals beside online master's and postgraduate certificate courses.同样在 2022 年，学校经 Online Manipal 平台开办获 UGC 授权的在线学位，面向在职人员的在线 MBA 与在线硕士及研究生证书课程并行开设。

• Budgetary support for research has been given through capital allocations, and ₹15 million, about US$160,000, was sanctioned to the Manipal Institute of Technology for 2008 to 2009 towards funding innovation.研究经费以资本拨款方式提供，2008 至 2009 年度即有 1,500 万卢比（约 16 万美元）拨予马尼帕尔理工学院用于资助创新。

• The Manipal Advanced Research Group was formed in early 2006 to grow new research projects in fundamental science and to promote interdisciplinary cooperation across basic research, biomedical science and engineering.马尼帕尔高等研究小组于 2006 年初成立，旨在拓展基础科学研究项目，并推动基础研究、生物医学与工程之间的跨学科协作。

• The Manipal Life Science Centre runs its own research team on projects funded by the Department of Biotechnology and the Department of Science and Technology of India.马尼帕尔生命科学中心设有自己的研究团队，承担由印度生物技术部与科学技术部资助的项目。

• That centre is linked to international research institutions such as the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and the University of Queensland in Australia.该中心与费城的威斯塔研究所（Wistar Institute）及澳大利亚的昆士兰大学等国际研究机构建立联系。

• The Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences sends its second-year postgraduate students to collaborative research programmes at research and development centres all over the country.马尼帕尔制药科学学院的二年级研究生被派往全国各地的研发中心参加合作研究项目。

• Its library system comprises fourteen libraries spread across the various campuses, a distributed network rather than a single central building.其图书馆体系由分布在多个校区的 14 座图书馆构成，是分散式网络而非单栋中心馆。

• The campus at Manipal covers 600 acres of land and is centred in the company town that the founding group built around the medical college first opened in 1953.马尼帕尔校区占地 600 英亩，中心即创办团体围绕 1953 年首开的医学院所建的大学城。

• Degree-awarding affiliation ran from Karnataka University at Dharwad to the University of Mysore and then to Mangalore University from 1980 until the 1993 grant ended external dependence.学位授予的隶属关系由达尔瓦德的卡纳塔克大学经迈索尔大学、再到自 1980 年起挂靠芒格洛尔大学，直至 1993 年的授予结束对外部的依赖。

• The Manipal College of Dental Sciences shared the 1993 deemed university grant with the Kasturba Medical College and remains the academy's anchor for dental teaching.马尼帕尔牙科科学学院与卡斯图尔巴医学院共同获得 1993 年的自治大学授予，至今仍是学院牙科教学的支柱。

Academics

• Academic offerings grew from two founding colleges, the Kasturba Medical College of 1953 and the Manipal Institute of Technology of 1958, into a multi-faculty academy.其教学门类从两所创院——1953 年的卡斯图尔巴医学院与 1958 年的马尼帕尔理工学院——扩展为一所多学科的综合性学院。

• The Manipal College of Dental Sciences stands beside the medical college as one of the two founding units that received deemed university status from the UGC in 1993.马尼帕尔牙科科学学院与医学院并列，是 1993 年获 UGC 授予自治大学地位的两所创始单位之一。

• The Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences is the pharmacy school within the academy and was ranked 8th among pharmacy institutions in India by NIRF in 2024.马尼帕尔制药科学学院是学院之内的药学学府，2024 年在印度国家机构排名框架（NIRF）中被列为药学类第 8 位。

• Engineering teaching is carried by the Manipal Institute of Technology, the constituent unit that formally joined the academy in 2000 after forty-two years of separate existence.工科教学由马尼帕尔理工学院承担，该单位在独立办学四十二年后于 2000 年正式并入学院。

• The academy's online division now runs an online MBA for working professionals, an online M.Sc. in Data Science and an online M.Sc. in Business Analytics introduced in 2022.其在线教育部门现开设面向在职者的在线 MBA、2022 年推出的数据科学在线硕士与商业分析在线硕士。

• Two postgraduate certificate programmes, one in Business Analytics and one in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, round out the online portfolio of the Online Manipal platform.两个研究生证书项目——商业分析与物流及供应链管理——补足了 Online Manipal 平台的在线课程组合。

• Degrees in its first decades depended on external affiliating universities, moving from Karnataka University at Dharwad to the University of Mysore and then to Mangalore University until 1993.创校数十年的学位依赖外部联合大学，先挂靠达尔瓦德的卡纳塔克大学，再转迈索尔大学，直至 1993 年前由芒格洛尔大学授予。

• Since the 1993 deemed status the academy awards its own degrees, an autonomy the Institution of Eminence designation of 2020 further widened.自 1993 年获得自治地位起，学院自行授予学位，2020 年的卓越机构认定又进一步扩大了其办学自主权。

• Research budgets are provisioned through capital allocations for animal facilities, consumables and equipment, the funding lines the academy records for its laboratories.研究经费通过资本拨款配置，用于动物实验设施、耗材与设备，即学院为其实验室登记的拨款条目。

• Collaborative output is encouraged by placing Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences postgraduates inside external research and development centres, where work may become a partner company's intellectual property.学校鼓励合作产出，将制药科学学院的研究生派入外部研发中心，其成果可能成为合作企业的知识产权。

• Instruction and administration are supported by fourteen libraries distributed across the campuses, the count the academy states for its library system.教学与行政由遍布各校区的 14 座图书馆支撑，此为学院就其图书馆体系给出的数量。

• Beyond Manipal itself, teaching sites at Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur extend the academy across Karnataka, and the Dubai and Malaysia campuses carry it abroad.在马尼帕尔之外，曼格洛尔、班加罗尔与詹谢普尔的教学点将学院延伸至卡纳塔克邦各地，迪拜与马来西亚校区则把办学拓展到海外。

• Teaching is organised through named constituent colleges, the Kasturba Medical College, the Manipal College of Dental Sciences, the Manipal Institute of Technology and the Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.教学以具名成员学院组织，即卡斯图尔巴医学院、马尼帕尔牙科科学学院、马尼帕尔理工学院与马尼帕尔制药科学学院。

• Its two sister institutions, Manipal University Jaipur and Sikkim Manipal University, are separately licensed deemed universities that nevertheless share the Manipal Education and Medical Group behind them.其两所姊妹机构——斋浦尔马尼帕尔大学与锡金马尼帕尔大学——各自单独持牌，但背后共享马尼帕尔教育与医疗集团。

• As a private deemed university the academy has conferred its own degrees since the 1993 grant, an autonomy that set it apart from Karnataka colleges still dependent on affiliating universities.作为私立自治大学，学院自 1993 年授予起便自行颁授学位，这份自主权使其区别于仍依赖联合大学的卡纳塔克各学院。

• The Manipal Institute of Technology received a ₹15 million innovation grant for 2008 to 2009, one of the capital allocations the academy directs to its constituent engineering schools.马尼帕尔理工学院在 2008 至 2009 年度获得 1,500 万卢比创新拨款，是学院划拨给成员工学院的资本拨款之一。

• Subject breadth runs from medicine and dentistry through pharmacy and engineering to the business, data-science and analytics fields added through the online division in 2022.学科广度自医学、牙科延伸至药学、工程，再到 2022 年经在线部门增设的商科、数据科学与分析学领域。

Campus

• The principal campus at Manipal covers 600 acres, equivalent to about 2.4 square kilometres, and is centred in the planned university town built around the original medical college.马尼帕尔主校区占地 600 英亩、约合 2.4 平方公里，中心即围绕最初医学院所建的规划大学城。

• Its location in the Udupi district of coastal Karnataka places the campus between the Western Ghats hills and the Arabian Sea coast to the west.学校地处卡纳塔克邦沿海的乌杜皮地区，校区西倚西高止山、面向阿拉伯海海岸。

• The coordinates 13.35 degrees north and 74.78 degrees east fix the Manipal site within the district that T. M. A. Pai selected for the 1953 medical college.北纬 13.35 度、东经 74.78 度这组坐标标定了马尼帕尔校址，位于 T. M. A. Pai 1953 年为医学院选定的乌杜皮地区之内。

• Indian teaching campuses beyond the seat are held at Mangaluru, at Bengaluru and at Jamshedpur, the last in the steel city of Jharkhand.印度境内的其他教学点设于曼格洛尔、班加罗尔与詹谢普尔，后者位于贾坎德邦的钢铁城市。

• Overseas presence is maintained through campuses in Dubai and in Malaysia, giving the deemed university two places of teaching outside India.海外办学经迪拜与马来西亚两处校区维系，使这所自治大学在印度之外拥有两个教学地。

• The library network of fourteen branches serves all campuses at once, so the distributed estate is matched by a distributed collection rather than one central archive.14 个分馆构成的图书馆网络同时服务各校区，分散的校园因此对应分散的馆藏，而非单一中心书库。

• Its global campuses in Dubai and Malaysia give the deemed university two teaching sites on different continents, complementing the four Indian locations at Manipal, Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur.迪拜与马来西亚的全球校区为这所自治大学提供分处两大洲的两个教学点，与马尼帕尔、曼格洛尔、班加罗尔、詹谢普尔四处印度校区相互补充。

• The Manipal estate includes the university-town amenities that grew up around the medical college from 1953 onward, binding campus and town into a single academic settlement.马尼帕尔园址包含自 1953 年起围绕医学院发展起来的大学城设施，使校园与城镇融为一处学术聚落。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Manipal Academy of Higher Education is placed in the 851-900 band, the position on which this entry is based.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，马尼帕尔高等教育学院被列入第 851-900 位区间，本条目即据此档位收录。

• In the preceding QS edition for 2025 the academy was listed in the 901-950 world band and ranked 197th in Asia, so its world position improved one band into 2027.在上一版即 2025 年 QS 榜单中，该校世界排名列 901-950 档、亚洲列第 197 位，故其世界名次到 2027 年上升了一个区间。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the institution in the 551-600 band, a stronger showing than the 801-1000 world band recorded for it in the 2025 edition.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 551-600 位，优于 2025 年版所记的第 801-1000 世界档。

• In the 2026-27 US News Best Global Universities ranking the academy is placed at 663, and in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking Academic Ranking of World Universities it sits in the 701-800 band.在 2026-27 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中该校列第 663 位，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中列第 701-800 位。

• On subject and national standing the National Institutional Ranking Framework placed MAHE 14th overall and 4th among universities in India in 2024, with its pharmacy college ranked 8th that same year.在学科与国家层面排名上，国家机构排名框架 2024 年将该校列为综合第 14 位、大学类第 4 位，其药学院同年列第 8 位。

• The Indian Institutional Ranking Framework for 2026 ranked MAHE 4th among private universities in India, 1st in Karnataka and 3rd in the South Zone, a set of domestic placements beside the global tables.2026 年印度机构排名框架将该校列为私立大学第 4 位、卡纳塔克邦第 1 位、南部区第 3 位，构成全球榜单之外的国内名次。

• Its measurable academic base rests not on citation totals but on structure: fourteen libraries, four Indian and two overseas campuses, and a ₹15 million innovation grant to the technology institute in 2008 to 2009.其可计量的学术基础不依赖引用总量而依赖建制：14 座图书馆、4 个印度校区与 2 个海外校区，以及 2008 至 2009 年度拨给理工学院的 1,500 万卢比创新拨款。

• Its highest honours are institutional rather than prize-level, resting on the NAAC A++ accreditation and the Institution of Eminence status conferred by the Ministry of Education in 2020.该校最高荣誉属机构层面而非诺奖级，依据是 NAAC 的 A++ 认证与 2020 年印度联邦教育部授予的卓越机构地位。

• No Nobel, Turing or Fields-level affiliation is recorded for the institution in its own record, and its ranking profiles instead cite the regional QS Asia and NIRF placements.该校自身记录中未见诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖级关联，其榜单档案改以 QS 亚洲排名与 NIRF 名次佐证地位。

Student life

• Students are drawn across the several Indian campuses at Manipal, Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur, so the academy's life is organised around more than one town.学生分布于马尼帕尔、曼格洛尔、班加罗尔与詹谢普尔数个印度校区，因此校园生活围绕不止一座城镇展开。

• The Dubai and Malaysia campuses bring international students into the academy, extending its community beyond India alongside its two sister universities in Jaipur and Sikkim.迪拜与马来西亚校区带来国际学生，使学校社区越出印度，并与斋浦尔、锡金两所姊妹大学相互衔接。

• The 2022 online programmes, among them an MBA aimed at working professionals, add a distance-learning cohort to a student body that otherwise lives in the university towns.2022 年开设的在线项目，其中面向在职人员的 MBA，为原本在大学城镇就读的学生群体增添了远程学习的一群人。

• Postgraduate students of the Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences spend part of their study inside external research and development centres, an applied dimension of student life.制药科学学院的研究生将部分学习时间放在外部研发中心度过，构成学生生活的实践面向。

• Study is supported by the distributed library system of fourteen branches rather than one central reading room, so each campus carries its own academic services.就学由 14 个分馆构成的分布式图书馆体系支撑，而非单一中心阅览室，因此各校区各有自己的学术服务。

• Research culture is carried to students through the Manipal Advanced Research Group formed in 2006 and the Manipal Life Science Centre, both of which run interdisciplinary projects.研究氛围经 2006 年成立的马尼帕尔高等研究小组与马尼帕尔生命科学中心传导给学生，二者均开展跨学科项目。

• Students at the medical, dental, engineering and pharmacy colleges move among Manipal and the Mangaluru, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur sites, a circulation the multi-campus structure encourages.医学、牙科、工学与药学学院的学生往来于马尼帕尔与曼格洛尔、班加罗尔、詹谢普尔各点，多校区建制助长了这种流动。

Notable people

• Satya Nadella, the chief executive officer of Microsoft who took the role in 2014, is counted among the alumni associated with the Manipal institute network.萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）是 2014 年起出任首席执行官的微软（Microsoft）掌门人，被视为与马尼帕尔学院网络相关的校友之一。

• Rajeev Chandrasekhar, an Indian politician and entrepreneur, served as Union Minister of State and as a member of Parliament in the upper house.拉吉夫·钱德拉塞卡尔（Rajeev Chandrasekhar）是印度政治家、企业家，曾任联邦国务部长及联邦院议员。

• Annapoorna Kini is an American cardiologist and a professor of cardiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.安娜普尔纳·基尼（Annapoorna Kini）是美国心脏病学家，任纽约市西奈山医学院（Mount Sinai School of Medicine）心脏病学教授。

• Anant J. Talaulicar serves as president and chief executive officer of Cummins India Limited, the Indian arm of the engine manufacturer.阿南特·塔劳利卡尔（Anant J. Talaulicar）任康明斯印度公司（Cummins India Limited）总裁兼首席执行官，该司为发动机制造商的印度分支。

• Vikas Khanna is a chef recognised with a Michelin Guide star, and Arun Shenoy is a Grammy Award-nominated musician, both listed among the academy's notable alumni.维卡斯·卡纳（Vikas Khanna）是获米其林指南星级表彰的厨师，阿伦·谢诺伊（Arun Shenoy）是获格莱美奖提名的音乐人，二人均列入学院知名校友。

• Mirza Faizan is an Indian aerospace scientist credited with developing the Ground Reality Information Processing System, known as GRIPS.米尔扎·法伊赞（Mirza Faizan）是印度航天科学家，因研发地面实况信息处理系统（GRIPS）而著称。

• Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, a Malaysian orthopedic surgeon and the first Malaysian astronaut, studied within the medical programme of the Manipal group.谢赫·穆扎法尔·舒库尔（Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor）是马来西亚骨科医生、马来西亚首位宇航员，曾在马尼帕尔集团的医学项目就读。

• Nag Ashwin is a film director and screenwriter and Junaid Sheikh an actor and model, both appearing on the list of notable alumni of the academy.纳格·阿什温（Nag Ashwin）是电影导演兼编剧，朱奈德·谢赫（Junaid Sheikh）是演员兼模特，二人均见于学院知名校友名录。

• The founding figure remains T. M. A. Pai, who opened the Kasturba Medical College in 1953 and set the trajectory that the academy and its MEMG group still follow.创办者仍是 T. M. A. Pai，他于 1953 年创办卡斯图尔巴医学院，奠定了学院及其 MEMG 集团至今沿袭的发展轨迹。