As many as 3,325 graduates across disciplines will receive their degrees while 57 will get gold medals and 159 will get merit certificates at the two-day 16th annual convocation of Nitte (Deemed to be University) to be held on November 6 at the Mangaluru campus and on November 7 at the Nitte campus.
On November 2, Nitte Vice-Chancellor M. S. Moodithaya told reporters in Mangaluru that the first ceremony would be held at University Ground in Deralakatte on November 6. Vivek Lal, Director, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, will deliver the convocation address.
The second ceremony will be held at the newly-constructed amphitheatre, Nitte Off-Campus Centre, Nitte on November 7 morning, for undergraduate graduands of Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology (NMAMIT). Prahlada Rama Rao, Pro-Chancellor, S-VYASA (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru and former vice-chancellor of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, would be the chief guest.
Professor Moodithaya said the third ceremony at Nitte on November 7 afternoon would cover PhD scholars, post-graduate graduands of NMAMIT and Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management, undergraduate graduands of Dr. Nitte Shankara Adyanthaya Memorial First Grade College, and Nitte Institute of Professional Education. The chief guest would be Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and former chief executive officer of Prasar Bharati.
Nitte Chancellor Vishal Hegde will chair the convocation ceremonies. Pro-Chancellor Shantharam Shetty is among those expected to attend the ceremonies.
Prof. Moodthaya said degrees would be conferred across disciplines encompassing Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Allied Health Sciences, Mass Communication & Journalism, Biological Sciences, Architecture, Speech and Hearing, Hospitality Management, Engineering and Technology, Computer Applications, Business Administration, Commerce, and Management.
Of the 3,325 graduands, 1,455 are from the Mangaluru campus, and 1,870 from the Nitte campus. The degree distribution includes 1,148 BTech graduands, 347 graduands in Medicine, 220 in Pharmacy, 181 in MCA, 180 in MBA, and 140 in Biological Sciences, alongside graduands from other undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programmes.
Registrar Harsha Halahalli and Controller of Examinations Prasad B Shetty were present at the press conference.
Published – November 02, 2026 01:08 pm IST
