The colleges are constituent units of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, an Institution of Eminence and deemed university.

The campus includes six teaching hospitals, the T M A Pai Convention Centre and a large indoor sports complex.

Postgraduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MS) are awarded after three years of residential training.

Admission is based on the 'All India Rank' obtained in NEET (UG) conducted by NTA.

20% of the MBBS seats in KMC Mangalore are retained for candidates from Karnataka as part of the public private partnership.

Admissions to nursing, physiotherapy, psychology and other allied health courses are based on the score obtained in the Manipal Entrance Test.

[9] Unlike most medical colleges in India, KMC Mangalore is attached to both government and private hospitals.

Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing cloud platform that analyzes high volumes of data understands complex queries and proposes evidence based answers for them.

[15] Manipal Hospitals have become the first in the country and the second in the world to implement IBM Watson for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.