Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University Fees 2026-27, Courses & Admission

Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University is an university in Dharwad, Karnataka, established in 2018. Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University is privately managed and self-financing. It is affiliated to Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University. Its programmes are approved by the NMC and the DCI. Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University offers 19 programmes, 8 at undergraduate level and 6 at postgraduate level. These include MBBS, BDS, Bachelor of Physiotherapy (B.P.T), B.Sc Allied Health Sciences and Bachelor of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, among others. The stated sanctioned intake across these programmes totals 157 seats. SDM University is a Karnataka State Private University established under the Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara University Act, 2018, effective 19 December 2018, and is described by its official site as unitary and based at Sattur, Dharwad. The official 2024-25 annual report states six constituent units, 57 departments, 87 programmes, 586 UG students, 186 PG students, 10 research students and 25 others. Its faculty total is reported as 336 regular/permanent teaching staff, although the rank figures published in the same extracted report do not arithmetically reconcile with that total; they are retained as stated. The university offers PhD programmes in Medicine, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Nursing Sciences and Biomedical Science. The official UGC 12(B) proforma reports 558 faculty overall across institution-wise units and names patents granted in 2023-24, but it is not used as the dated faculty row because the annual report provides a university-wide regular/permanent teaching-staff total. Academic requirements vary by programme: official curricula show semester examinations and English medium, with attendance thresholds ranging from 75% to 80% or higher depending on the programme. No 2026-27 university-wide faculty, hospital accreditation, industry MoU, or university-wide facility figure was explicitly published in the reviewed official material. Recognition is supported by the UGC State (Private) Universities list dated 17.01.2024, which names the university at the Sattur, Dharwad address, and by the Karnataka Act. The university's UGC proforma states that it was established under Karnataka Act No. 19 of 2018 and Notification No. ED 261 URC 2018 dated 19.12.2018. The proforma's six constituent units are university-reported through a Board of Governors resolution, not listed in the Act itself. The university homepage describes five constituent colleges; the current regulator-facing proforma figure of six is retained and the older conflicting figure is noted here. AISHE exact-directory identity/code was not verifiable from the publicly accessible directory. No NIRF rank or category-specific data-PDF result naming this university was found; the 2025 NIRF PDF located is a methodology report, not an institution data submission. NAAC is reported by the university as in process/applying in its available official material, so no NAAC grade is recorded. Professional approvals for constituent medical/dental units must not be attributed as university-wide recognition; NMC's 2024-25 seat matrix names SDM College of Medical Sciences & Hospital separately and gives it 150 MBBS seats under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

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