Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Manipal Academy of Higher Education is synonymous with excellence in higher education. MAHE is one of India’s leading academic and research institutions. It ranks 7th among Indian universities as of 2022. It has been granted Institution of Eminence status by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Over 35,000 students from 60+ different nations live, learn, and play in the sprawling University town, nestled on a plateau in the Udupi district of Karnataka. It also has nearly 3,000+ faculty and almost 10,000+ other support and service staff, who cater to the various professional institutions in Health Sciences, Engineering, Management, Communication, and Humanities, which dot the Wi-Fi-enabled campus. The MAHE has off-campus centers in Mangaluru, Bengaluru, and Jamshedpur and an offshore campus in Dubai (UAE). The Mangaluru campus offers Medical and Dental programs. The Bengaluru campus offers programs in Regenerative Medicine, Engineering, Art & Design, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, Law, and Management. The Dubai campus offers programs in Engineering, Management, Architecture, Information Sciences, Media Communication, etc. Every institute has world-class facilities and pedagogy, which are constantly reviewed and upgraded to reflect the latest trends and developments in higher education. Presently, MAHE offers about 300+ programs in 31+ streams, which include undergraduate, postgraduate, and postdoctoral levels at its campuses in India and overseas.
Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science
In the Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science (DoASDS) (formerly the Department of Statistics), structured and unstructured data are gathered or generated and are needed as a basis for the development of policy options and public health activities. New approaches to data-handling and analysis, like Big Data or Artificial Intelligence, will be applied to available and/or newly generated data sets.
The Centres of Health Demography and Digital Health allocated to the Department of Data Science are good examples for the research done, as here new and existing data are generated, gathered, and processed.
The Department of Data Science was established as the first teaching department under MAHE, Manipal, on August 1, 2006. The department offers courses in Statistics/Applied Statistics/ Research Methodology to graduate and Doctoral students within the university and the Executive Education Programme for corporate biostatisticians. Collaboration with National/International agencies and International Universities has enhanced its strength. The department has a state-of-the-art computational facility equipped with SPSS, STATA, and SAS.
Programmes:
The department offers the Master of Science in Biostatistics (MSc in Biostatistics), Master of Science in Data Science (MSc in Data Science) and Master of Science in Digital Epidemiology (MSc in Digital Epidemiology) Programmes (2 Years – with modular based curriculum framework), Certificate course in Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Research Methodology (6 months) and Doctoral Programmes. The department also offers various teaching programmes related to statistics, epidemiology & research methodology to postgraduates and undergraduates of several health science courses under the university. The department has collaborative projects with national and international agencies. Students are actively encouraged to become familiar with statistical computing, prepare research protocols and reports, and face statistical problems.
Collaborations:
- The department trains the associates of Novartis Health Care Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. Five batches of associates from Novartis have been trained since 2011
- The department started the Ph.D. program in collaboration with Pharmaceutical industries, Novartis Health Care Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Bangalore
- The department has collaboration with various national and international organizations like Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia; Robert Gordon University, Scotland; Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai (MDRF); Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar (IIPH); Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi (PHFI); University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Department of Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics at Manipal Institute of Technology was started in 1957 and provides the students with the mathematical foundation required to analyze all engineering and applied science courses. Apart from this, it also provides the mathematical methods to formulate, analyze, and solve the problems of engineering and management through higher-level and elective courses. The faculty members help students in acquiring a conceptual understanding of the nature and structure of mathematics, its processes, and applications.
The department caters to undergraduate courses through regular and elective subjects, PG courses like M. Sc., M.Tech., MCA, as well as pure and applied mathematics in the other consistent institutions of Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
Core Competencies:
- Numerical Analysis
- Fluid Dynamics
- Graph Theory
- Number Theory
- Complex Analysis
- Algebra
- Functional Analysis
- Topology
- Statistical Inferences
- Reliability Theory
- Control & Optimization
Programmes:
- M. Sc. – Applied Mathematics and Computing
- Integrated M. Sc. (Mathematics and Computing)