It;s a brand, Yes. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, predominantly known from its brand name Manipal University is a private hold deemed university, with a area spread wide across 600 acres, is centered in the university town of Manipal with two divided campuses, Health Sciences and Engineering Campus.
Manipal University offers 218 programs in 19 disciplines. Mainly programs offered in the areas of Allied health, Architecture, Basic and Advanced Sciences, Communication, Dentistry, Engineering, European studies &Foreign Languages, Geo-politics &International Relations, Hospitality, Information Sciences, Humanities, management(MBA), Life Sciences, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Generative Medicine. Manipal University has a chain of Six Libraries. Also has Manipal Advanced Research group with aims to grow new research projects in Fundamental sciences. With almost 28000 students from 52 countries. Affiliated to UGC, ACU, AIU.
Mainly located in Manipal, karnataka and also has branch campuses in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Sikkim, Mangaluru.
Life in Manipal will be really awesome & fantastic, Also with co-scholastic areas and different varieties of food, Sports Marena, etc. Although Manipal life is luxuries but little bit expensive to study there, especially Engineering!