The Manipal Education and medical Group is one of India’s premier education and healthcare services provider and has been providing quality education for over 50 years. It is the nucleus of 53 educational institutions with over 1,00,000 admissions.

Manipal was a bare wasteland, a late rite hilltop covered with scrub and brush. Five decades ago, a great visionary Dr TMA Pai, a country doctor changed the face of the hilltop with his vision. He built a bustling township called Manipal. Today, Manipal is a renowned Centre of Learning. He established educational, medical, banking, printing and industrial enterprises of national importance and repute. Manipal is an eloquent testimony to the vision, motivation and labour of Dr TMA Pai. The mecca of education and health services, it is the nucleus of 50 educational institutions and 10 hospitals. But a few decades before, Manipal was a barren wasteland, a bare hilltop covered with scrub and bush. Then, a great visionary saw serenity in silence, potential in barrenness, and challenge in adversity. That visionary was Dr T.M.A. Pai, a country doctor who by his vision changed the face of the hilltop. He built a bustling township, which is today an International University town, and a renowned Center of Learning. The late Dr T.M.A. Pai established, in Manipal, a whole host of educational, medical, banking and industrial enterprises of national importance and repute, and as of today, more than twenty thousand students have graduated from these colleges.

MAHE is also affiliated to various reputed institutes and universities abroad, for the exchange of knowledge as well as, students and faculty. For example, KMC has formal affiliations with the Loma Linda and Louisiana State Universities in USA, the University of Adelaide, Australia, the Kuopio University, Finland and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. These academic linkages provide base for exchange of faculty and student, collaborative research and development of special projects. In fact, the Manipal Group of Institutions were the first in the country to establish a collaboration with foreign universities at the degree level in Medicine, Management and Engineering. The collaborative programme is called a 'Twinning Programme' in which the students pursue the first two years study of a degree programme at Manipal, India and the last two years in the USA or Australia. The degree is awarded by the foreign university.

The International Center for Applied Sciences (ICAS) has entered into agreements with the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), Andrews University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Ohio University, University of Missouri and Deakin University for transfer of full credits after the completion of the two year course at International Center for Applied Sciences (ICAS). Some of our students have also been admitted to other reputed universities who have accepted ICAS credits.