Manipal Institute of Technology

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Manipal Institute of Technology

60th-anniversary logo of the school
Motto	Knowledge is Power
Type	Private
Established	11 May 1957; 68 years ago (1957-05-11)[1]
Founder	T. M. A. Pai[1]
Parent institution	Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Director	Dr Anil Rana[2]
Academic staff	600+[1]
Students	Undergraduate : 8000+ Postgraduate and Phds : 1000+[1]
Location	Manipal , Karnataka , India 13°21′05″N 74°47′34″E / 13.35129°N 74.79271°E / 13.35129; 74.79271
Campus	313 acres (1.27 km2), University town
Colors	White and Orange
Website	manipal.edu/mit

Manipal Institute of Technology is a private engineering college & constituent unit under Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India.

The institute has 18 academic departments and awards undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate degrees.^[1] The MIT campus is spread over 313 acres of what once used to be a desolate plateau of hard, laterite rock in southern Karnataka's Udupi district. The institute undertakes sponsored research programs supported by funding agencies such as DST, CSIR, AICTE, and the Ministry of Environmental Sciences. It has collaborative research programs in association with premier research laboratories and institutes in India and abroad.^[3] In 2018, Government of India had awarded it as Institute of Eminence.^[4]