Well known and well-kept

World-famous, the Mangalore university has had many famous alumni such as the CEO of Microsoft as well as the founder of Café Coffee Day. Today marks the day it was founded.

Mangalore University Logo; Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

As much as the education system is criticized in India, universities are institutions where there are no boundaries around your curiosity, or there should be none. One of them is the ever-growing Mangalore University, which has achieved and borne a number of successful alumni and has become one of the most prestigious and well-known universities in the country.

Its origins are based on the Postgraduate Centre of the University of Mysore, eventually turning into an independent university. It began with only 3 post-graduate departments, and now the numbers have increased to 26. The university now has affiliations with 204 colleges, two constituent colleges and five autonomous colleges.

The university also has grown outside and established a P.G. centre at Chikka Aluvara, Somwarpet taluk, Kodagu district, with two departments, offering 11 postgraduate and two PhD programmes.

Self-contained, the university has every tool required to let students pursue their own interests. It has almost all the postgraduate degrees in almost every field of art, science and law.

The Microtron Centre, the Center for Application of Radiation and Radioisotope Technology (CARRT), the Centre for Advanced Research in Environmental Radioactivity (CARER), which have been established through funding from the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India are internationally recognized as science research centres.

A mall, a health centre, and everything necessary to live inside the campus itself if provided to the students.

A number of the university's alumni are world-famous and owe to the reputation of the university.

V. G. Siddhartha, the founder of Café Coffee Day, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, D. V. Sadananda Gowda and Veerappa Moily are famous politicians. These alumni are the most recognizable and the university looks upon them with pride. The university also had the first undergraduate courses for Hotel Management, Human Resource Development, Fashion Design and Yogic Sciences.