The ‘Institute of Eminence’ status granted to Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) is an acknowledgement of the potential of it to become a globally ranked university in future, according to H Vinod Bhat, Vice-Chancellor of MAHE.
Speaking at a programme to celebrate the status given to the university, he said MHRD’s special status to MAHE is also a recognition of all what has been done in the past.
Dedicating the achievement to the founder, late TMA Pai, and the MAHE Chancellor Ramdas M Pai, he said they have overcome tough times and endured to see the university grow into what it is today.
MAHE is planning to open new campuses in Bengaluru, Jamshedpur and Sri Lanka in the next two years, he said.
Sandeep Shenoy, Director (Quality and Compliance) of MAHE, said the MHRD provided the guidelines for all those universities who wished to apply for the status. The university designed and developed the documents as per the requirements of MHRD and submitted a voluminous document which ran close to 26,000 pages.