[1] The MIT campus is spread over 313 acres of what once used to be a desolate plateau of hard, laterite rock in southern Karnataka's Udupi district.

The institute undertakes sponsored research programs supported by funding agencies such as DST, CSIR, AICTE, and the Ministry of Environmental Sciences.

The institute started with 25 staff members and an annual intake of 120 students for the undergraduate courses on a campus of 180 acres (0.73 km2).

In 1973, the semester scheme was adopted, and a one-year postgraduate diploma in industrial engineering was offered.

In the same year, the Venugopala Temple, modelled on the famous Kirti Mandir, Vadodara, Gujarat was built.

The adjoining New Lecture Hall complex ('NLH') was built anticipating the increase in intake and was inaugurated in the year 2006.

The then Finance Minister and future President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee also visited the institute on 26 May 2012 to inaugurate one of the Academic Blocks.

The institute was visited by acclaimed South Indian film director S.S. Rajmouli in October 2017.

The institute also played host to the 49th annual convention of the National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) in January 2007.

[13] It was designed by Kartikeya Rastogi, who was then a senior year Chemical Engineering undergraduate student.

[15] Kamath Circle has been renamed and renovated as Student Plaza with a two-floored Colosseum-like structure and a musical fountain at the center also containing a couple of general stores.

[18] MIT Manipal offers full-time, four/five-year undergraduate (Bachelor's degree) programs in the various disciplines.

MIT Manipal also offers the International Centre for Applied Sciences (ICAS) program, a unique transfer program that allows students to spend their first two years at ICAS, Manipal, and the subsequent two years at a university of their choice abroad.

The institute also offers Ph.D. programs on a full-time or part-time basis for suitably qualified candidates.

It is a computer-based exam and consists of 200 questions testing Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, and logical reasoning and spans a duration of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

MAHE offers two opportunities for a student to write the entrance exam, subject to additional payment and availability of vacancies.

[26] Several research programs in the areas of nanotechnology, nuclear engineering, VLSI design and pattern recognition are being pursued in the interdisciplinary labs under the institute's innovation centre.

[34] The college has several technical clubs including international as well as national student organizations such as the ACM, IEEE, ISTE, IEMCT and ASME.

They have taken part in India's biggest driverless car challenge - "Spark the Rise" - organized by Mahindra.

The prototype is capable of detecting and navigating around pedestrians, a variety of traffic signs and signals, road and non-road regions, vehicles along with a wide range of other obstacles.

The team also secured World Rank 4 in their flagship competition SAE AeroDesign East 2020 held in Lakeland, Florida.

They regularly compete in various competitions and have steadily improved their rankings at the University Rover Challenge held by The Mars Society USA, since they first entered in 2016.

It is a premier robotics competition held annually every summer at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA.

The entire process of managing and organizing the fest is handled by the students with the work being divided amongst various categories.

[43] In March 2020, MIT required students to download a software called PEXA Lite on their laptops, to conduct proctored end-semester exams.

By the first week of April, over 1000 students of MIT were infected by the coronavirus due to poor social distancing and lax safety standards in the college.

On 8 June 2021, MIT cancelled the end-semester examinations and opted to prorate the marks based on previous semester performances.