1957 

• Year of Establishment
• First self-financing Engineering College in India
• Started with Civil Engineering Program
• Affiliated to Karnataka University
  

1965 

• Affiliated to Mysore University

1974

• Renamed as Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) from Manipal Engineering College (MEC)

1980

• Affiliated to Mangalore University

1998

• Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

2000

• Constituent Institution of Manipal University

2007

• Celebrated Golden Jubilee

At Present

• B. Tech. Programs in 16 disciplines
• M.Tech. Programs in 24 different streams
• MCA Program
• Doctoral (Ph.D) programs in all streams of engineering
  
  
  

History of Leadership

Principals

1. Prof. K B Krishna Rao 15/7/1957 to 25/6/1958
2. Prof. R K KNarayan 26/6/1958 to 16/3/1959
3. Prof. M N Kamath 17/3/1959 to 30/10/1961
4. Prof. P VenkataramanBhat 31/10/1961 to 20/6/1971
5. Prof. B V Krishnamurthy 1/7/1971 to 30/6/1976
6. Prof. V Chandrashekhar 1/7/1976 to 31/1/1980
7. Prof. T Radhakrishnan 1/2/1980 to 31/3/1980
8. Dr. K V Kamath 1/4/1980 to 29/7/1985
9. Prof. U R Kamath 30/7/1985 to 31/12/1986
10. Prof. AlladiPrabhakar 1/1/1987 to 8/2/1996
11. Prof. P V Bhandary 9/2/1996 to 8/10/2000

Directors

1. Prof. (Dr.) M N Shetty 9/10/2000 to 8/10/2002
2. Prof. (Dr.) B S Prabhu 9/10/2002 to 25/4/2006
3. Dr. (Prof.) Raghuvir Pai 26/4/2006 to 4/6/2006
4. Brig. (Dr.) S SPabla 5/6/2006 to 19/4/2009
5. Dr.Narayana Sabhahit 20/4/2009 to 7/6/2009
6. Brig.(Dr.) SomnathMishra 8/06/2009 to 6/8/2010
7. Dr. Kumkum Garg 7/8/2010 to 30/4/2012