Hello,

My name is rajesh ramaswamy, m.b.b.s. I would like to make a sincere suggestion to those who are prospecting medschool at Manipal. If you can't get into a school here in the USA then better find a different career track. All i can say is Manipal is a fool's paradise which turns into a naightmare of a reality when one goes and joins it. All i can say is my time spent in Manipal was one of major tribulation. It isn't worth the money they charge you. Of all colleges i have seen Manipal is the only place where at least one student dies out of every batch. The social scene there is a joke. People can not be more superficial than those students in KMC. The price of living in Manipal is outrageous. You can't even get hot running water in the apartment flats in Manipal. Simple erands are a chore to perform. The Indian bureaucracy makes official work very impossible to perform. The administration is very unreceptive to students with genuine problems. And sanitation problems predispose every foreigner to bout of hepatitis A. The hostels are the most unhygienic places around and the mess facilities are terribly dirty. Stray animals are allowed to roam freely in the kitchen areas where their feces mingle with the meal prepartions. The mess workers have no sense of disease control and are unhygienic. The hostels lack adequate drainainge making flooding of the lower rooms commonplace during the monsoons. Rats and roaches roam freely in the hostels and rooms which especially are not adequatelyclosed from the elements. The only good lectures are delivered by senior professors who come once ina a while to hold classes. the remainder of classes are taught by uninterested grad students and resident doctors who are more concerned about their professional training. The health care in the college is a joke. The nursing staff is the least bit concerned about the care of patients and frequently are insubordinate to the doctors orders. Many of them demonstrate a total lack of competence. Gossip and fickle mindedness is the order of buisiness there and when professors catch wind of these rumors they exploit the students and extort them for what they can get out of them. Foreigners beware of local students. They are notorious for extorting money from foreign students especially the Americans. They also do their best to undermine the progress of NRI and foreign students from other parts of the world.

^aite...seriously, most of that is untrue. I just went to manipal a few weeks ago to visit. Hostels were hella clean, the mess halls were nice (no stray animals anywhere, lol). The classrooms were nice as well. The hostel looked preety hygenic to me. About the hot water part...yeah its not there sometimes, but it didnt look like a big deal to me. Actually the hospital didn't look too great, but they had all the state of the art equipment necessary.

i'm going to have to agree with that first post actually. i wasn't doing medicine in manipal (i was doing an undergrad media degree), but most of my friends were, and some still are, in kmc - and my mum went there when she was in uni. frankly i don't think it's changed much since then. i'm from england and i was there for 4 years. the hostels and apartments are definitely NOT clean - apart from the international hostel which is rediculously expensive for what it is, and the size of the rooms is pathetic. the messes and canteens are indescribable. the classrooms have recently improved, as they've just built a new building on the campus, but all the rumours about flooding of the lower level hostels and all the little bugs, insects and particularly lizards is totally true. the nightlife is outrageously dull (there are two clubs er... more like skool discos actually - and if ur a girl, i wudn't expect to go into one of those places and come out quite unscathed. there are plenty of local guys hanging around there just waiting to grab any part of u they can before they slink off into the background, leaving u feeling particularly slimey)... but far worse than all this is a kind of prevailing attitude of illwill from all the local students (and even teachers, if kmc is anything like mic - where i was) towards the so-called nri's. the place is rife with man's best friendiness and gossip, nobody's genuine and if they're friends with u it's only because they think they might be able to get something out of u in the end. u might say that's true of anywhere - but there's something particularly unpleasant about the manipal lot. i was pretty miserable for the few years i was there, and seriously cudn't wait to get out of that hellhole. i had to pay nri fees as well, so i know how high they are - and they're simply not worth it. if ur a quiet kind of person that keeps urself to urself and only wants to concentrate on ur studies (and doesn't have any particular hangups about hygeine, cleanliness or contracting random diseases) then u shud be ok. but if ur sociable and want to make friends and have fun while ur studying - seriously - find somewhere else! i wish i had...

i dont know what to think now because seriously i am into hygiene.

even if the local people are as evil as u say they are, why i can just chill with the foreigners and nri's there innit.

i dunno now.. i am confused.

Dear Rajesh,

I know you from Manipal. It is really NOT surprising that this piece of post is from YOU! A person like you cannot have a better opinion about anybody anyway...

You were one of the most "well known" students there . Many know about your escapades in the Obstetrics labour room, where the lives of many mothers and the "yet to born" were threatened... If not for the alert staff and timely action, you could have even caused a fatality! This is just one of the examples...

I believe that people can judge you based on this alone...

If You Have Any Balls Then State Your Point And Identify Yourself.

The "school" is garbage, people leave there and hang out out at Kaplan for a year learning the basic medical sciences. The president of the college, RP, is a criminal, a liar and a fraud. His father was a remarkable person who did good works for the community, but this guy, like many generations coming on the heels of great men, is a worthless tool who has no moral backbone.

It's a small village cut off from civilization, raj doc was right, gossip, judgementalism, and pseudo-moralism from the worst scum of the earth are the name of the game there. it sucks. People, you can do better. If you're in the u.s., just get your prereqs done and you will have excellent choices in the caribbean. real schools with real rules, and a much more efficient and safe path to sit for the board exam. Yes, if there are no other options, then by definition maybe manipal is all right, however there are simply too many real options out there to have to settle for this dump.

with a little bit of effort, and some prereqs, most people can get into smu, mua or st eu. any of these is a far better bet than manipal, and you will have a curriculum geared toward u.s. licensure and doing well on step 1. you won't get that in money-pal and will have to spend a lot of time afterward getting it on your own at Kaplan or 12 hr days in the library for a while. i know whereof i speak, as i have seen both sides of this particular coin, and believe me, the caribbean is by far the better investment of time and money (provided it's not st james, spartan, or some other fly by night joke)

woww...it's really sad to read all of this.

i must admit, i've heard many cases of nri's getting backstabbed in academics, money, etc so i can't say the op is lying. also, the teachers are really rough on nri's.

hopefully the admin will straighten things out there.

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i see, that is some quality education in India

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Does anyone in this thread still go to manipal now?