Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore

Yenepoya Medical College Hostel

All the hostel rooms are furnished and equipped with basic amenities. PG hostels are air-conditioned, whereas, in UG hostels, air-conditioned rooms are provided as per the personal request. The hostels have attached dining halls, TV rooms, Wi-Fi facilities, RO drinking water, and Laundry facilities. Separate hostels are provided for both men and women as follows. YMK men’s hostel has a capacity of 500, Zulekha ladies hostel has an 866 capacity and Gardenia Hostel, which has three blocks, can house 216 male students in Block A, 600 female students in Block B, and an extra block C for female students.

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Yenepoya Medical College Facilities

The facilities provided by Yenepoya Medical College include:

• Sports Complex: There is one sports ground present in the college area and basketball, volleyball, badminton and squash courts near the hostel. The sports complex also includes a sophisticated, fully-fledged gymnasium with imported gym equipment. They also have a theatre of 150 seating capacity with Dolby digital sound system inside the sports complex.
• Yenepoya is a digital campus supported by Yen-Net (Wi-Fi) service which works 24X7 covering 90% of the living area in the campus. The University provides filtered and secured data access to learning material as well as entertainment and social channels.
• Library: The library does not just have 30,000 books, but also access to various e-resources including the e-databases such as EBSCO, HELINET, INFONET and the other subscriptions. There is also an e-learning centre and a digital library to aid students in online learning.
• Laundry services: In house laundry services take care of daily laundry requirements. They manage all kinds of laundry, such as general linen of hotels, uniforms, and garments, including dry-cleaning and ironing services. Their machinery allows them to wash linen while utilising up to 75% less water, chemicals, and energy.

Yenepoya Medical College Awards and Accolades

13 faculty members of the institution have received highly reputed national/international awards/recognition from central government agencies in the previous academic year (2018-19). Some of these awards include:

• Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance Early career fellowship award from the Wellcome Trust United Kingdom, Department of Biotechnology
• GFBR Global Forum on Bioethics in Research travel grant from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics 
• Pecha Kucha Best Paper Award from the GFBR Meeting at Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Best paper presentation award from the Mangalore University Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (IABMS) 
• Travel Scholarships award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Travel Scholarships award from the American Association of Public Health Laboratories and CDC
• Shalini Rakesh Fellowship from ISPN (Indian Society of Pediatric Nephrology)

Conclusion

The faculty, facilities and standard of education are excellent in this Deemed to be University. The reviews of the college point to the students being not simply happy, but overjoyed with the opportunity to study there, and consider it to be worth their money. All in all, this college seems to be a fantastic option.