currently in manipal....in the year 2008....many students have come who have preffered manipal over bits goa and  hyderabad.....there is no point comparing the two....coz manipal is lot better than bits goa.....this year you will rarely find students bunking classes(fine imposed on the students per hour of class bunk...50/hour...)

there are hell a lot of exams here....hence students are forced to study....and as i said this years' counselling has answered all critics regarding the student quaity in mit,manipal.....ece over at 1900....mech. over at 3300...comp. sc. over at 2800....civil over at 4000...chemical over at 4400...printing over at 5200.....e&e over at 3200....aerospace over at 4100....automobile over at 4300....i&p over at 4200...i&c over at 3900.....so you know gone are those days....when ppl. at ranks of 10k and 15k used to get mech. and civil out here....so get real and try to accept the truth......

placements here are also very good.....the mech. department here is the best in the country after iit-k and iit-kgp....it is graded as A+ by HRD Ministry of India...bits goa and all cant even come close to it....companies like schlumberger,ingersoll rand,honda,toyota,shelletc... visit here on a regular basis.....so all critics shut up and watch the rise of might mighty MIT......

manipal is a lot better than vit...only ground of criticism was its student quality being bad....this years counselling has proved manipal's dominance in  the private education sector....vit is definitely not bad.....visit manipal.info for all the latest info. about the university and its colleges....

all this is really crap....pesit such good at placements....impossible....the worst rating till now....and ya bits cant have such low rankings...its sheer crap.....

@akshay

you say NIT Bhopal is anyday better than manipal....yaar rishi sir ne sahi bola....you need to have a lot of mentos....ek ya do se tere dimaag ki batti nahi jalegi....lol....

agreed with akshay....

hostel life in sastra sucks...its very boring....

@akshay

aur koi reason ho sakta hai kya....????

@pannaguma....

i think from the indian perspective MIT,manipal is a good college....certainly you can't call it above average....

well....there are a few reasons which i feel has contributed to this pattern of the counselling :

1.abolishing the state quota in the NITs.

2.improvement in the level of placements(on par with many nits and above a few)

3.very good quality hostel life.

4.very less ragging(the director has gone very strict over this from 2006 and the situation has been improving day by day)

5.reasonable fee(considering all the facilities provided along with the basic needs)

6.a very good brand perception of the university (very well recognised abroad) although mainly due to the kmc manipal.

7.many still not trusting the quality and future of the new iits and bits hyderabad(to the extent they should)

Manipal is better than LNMIIT....

even interest matters....last year one of my friends got 3.8k in jee..but ended up in vit with mech.

dis year...i know two guys who are joining in manipal....they both got ranks in the range of 3.5k-4k...so are these people not gonna succeed...????

yeah asolutely right akshay...

lagta hai yahan gyaanibaba ka gyan hume dhoka de raha hai....see,getting into an IIT is always difficult..and those who clear the jee through good general ranks...hats off to all those ppl....but dont forget that success in life is a much wider concept...getting in an IIT...fine...but you cant stop working....one of my seniors studying in IIT-R was very overconfident after his selection....and literally stopped studying after joining the institute...today he finds himself ineligible for placements courtesy of a poor show in academics(he got at least one or two backs in almost all the exams and later cleared it with poor percentages)....isn't it a shame...while on the other hand...his schoolmate who was doing mechanical engineering at NIT Raipur maintained a gpa of about 9 throughout the years...(he could not clear IIT in the mains) and now he has got a decent package from NTPC....he plans to join the public sector giant and along with it also prepare for CAT..coz he will get ample time to do that.....

i think you are/were a student of VJTI...isliye u included it in that list...it really doesn't deserve to be alongside institutes like the IITs,IIIT-H or NSIT...

@akshay...

agreed...even in manipal university...three or four coaching centres for GRE/MAT/CAT/GMAT are there and these have pretty good faculty...so institute wise no probs....ya...i do agree that the no. is few...so you gotta choose between these only...if you are interested in CAT...then first go through the basics of MACRO ECONOMICS....