The Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is an Indian school, with the status of an Institution of Eminence and deemed university. Over 30,000 students from 60+ different nations study there in the sprawling university town, which sits on a plateau in the Udupi district of Karnataka. The school has campuses in Mangalore, Bangalore, and Jamshedpur in India, as well as global campuses in Dubai and Malaysia.

In 1953, Dr. T. M. A. Pai founded India's first private medical school, the Kasturba Medical College,[1] and five years later the Manipal Institute of Technology was established. Initially, degrees were awarded by Karnataka University, Dharwad and later by the University of Mysore. From 1980 to 1993 they were awarded by Mangalore University. The current organizational structure was formed in 1993 when Kasturba Medical College and Manipal College of Dental Sciences were accorded deemed university status by UGC.[2] Manipal Institute of Technology became a constituent unit of Manipal Academy of Higher Education in 2000.[3] In 2022, MAHE introduced five online degree and diploma programs in business administration, data science, business analytics, and logistics and supply chain.[4] The campus at Manipal covers 600 acres (2.4 km2)[5] of land and is centred in the university town of Manipal.In 2022, MAHE started offering UGC-entitled online degree programs through Online Manipal platform. Currently, the university offer online MBA for working professionals,[6] online M.Sc. in Data Science,[7] and online M.Sc. in Business Analytics[8] beside online PGCP in Business Analytics[9] and PGCP in Logistics & Supply Chain Management.[10]

Manipal Academy of Higher Education was conferred the Institutes of Eminence status by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2020.[21] Internationally, Manipal Academy of Higher Education was ranked 751–800 in the QS World University Rankings of 2023[11] and 215 in Asia.[12] It was ranked 801–1000 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023,[13] 351–400 in Asia in 2022[14] and 301–350 among emerging economies.[15] In India, MAHE has been accredited by NAAC with an A++ Grade, and the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked Manipal Academy of Higher Education 16th overall and 6th among universities in 2023.[17] NIRF also ranked the Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences 8th.[19]