Thanks for the A2As and apologies for the late response.
In my opinion
Pros:
1. Amazing college life. You will have a life outside classroom and no, it will not include alcohol, drugs etc. if you don’t want to.
2. Personality development. Manipal it’s students and culture shapes you like nothing else.
3. You have a club for anything and everything. Every choice, hobby , niche is important and one can find people with common interests very easily.
4. You can build a really good profile here. Join IAESTE and do some foreign internships, or be a part of Formula Manipal and other cool stuff to build up a good resume.
5. Friends for life. I’ve had better friends here rather than at my school. Since most of us stay away from our families these friends become family and share all happiness and sorrows. But you need to decide what kind of company you want to keep.
6.Goa, Agumbe, Coorg,Gokarna are amazing places to visit which are very close and during your stay here you can go vacationing for a weekend.
7. The place is breathtakingly beautiful. The beaches nearby along with the western ghats are sometimes a sight to behold especially during mornings.
8. This one relatively a somewhat stupid point but nonetheless I’ll mention it. Being a premiere institution you get quite a few perks. For example if you are appearing for the e-litmus exam they give you a rebate on your registration fee on your first attempt.