Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital is affiliated by Pondicherry University. It provides Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course. The campus mission is to educate culturally diverse students to become excellent physicians through the creation of a scholarly environment that fosters excellence in the lifelong goals of education, research activity and compassionate patient care and by focusing on generalist training that is integrated, supported and strengthened by specialists and researchers, all of whom value patient-focused care, community service and research and have passion for improving health of our people.