 The department of Architecture was rechristened as "The Faculty of Architecture" in 2006, and then as Manipal School of Architecture and Planning and Design, as a separate institute under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in 2011.In 2013, an integrated course in Computer Science and Communication Engineering was added, under the department of Information and Communication Technology.The annual undergraduate student intake increased from 800 spread over 12 engineering disciplines in the year 2003 to 1500 spread over 16 disciplines in 2008. , the institute has an intake of more than 2300 students.