Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore

Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangaluru was founded in 1987 and recognised by the Dental Council of India in 1992 and by the Malaysian Dental Council in 2003. It received ISO9001:2000 certification in 2006, re-certified as ISO9001:2008 in 2009. The college, part of Manipal University, offers a four-year undergraduate BDS programme followed by one year of internship, and a three-year postgraduate MDS programme across nine specialties, along with an M.Sc. in Dental Materials. The institution has 260 dental chairs, a library, audio-visual lecture halls, phantom head labs, and seminar/CDE rooms, with hostel facilities for boys and girls and transport to the institution. It operates across the Light House Hill Road Campus, Attavar Campus, and the Centre for Basic Sciences at Bejai for first-year students. Clinical training in medical subjects is conducted at Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Attavar, a 651-bed hospital. Admission for undergraduate and postgraduate courses is through an online entrance test held in April–May, covering Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and English. In 2024, the National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked the institute 11th among dental institutes in India.