The answer is Manipal main campus.

Yes and don’t wonder why. I am a guy who had option to join PESU(cet) or MU(mahe free seat), and I chose PESU (to stay away from home :p)

Other than the fact that placements are well and good in PESU, the campus life is miserable. They brag themselves that they are of IIT and NIT standards but there is no way you can compare to those. It has a very small campus and hostel is terrible. Food available at hostel is real bad.

What’s more they have a terrific wifi facility in campus (only at few blocks/classes) and no internet facility in hostel (even airtel/jio gives 10KBps). Being in CS department, there are only few good professors and students study on their own as usual. Especially comparing MU and PESU, PES in recent years has been trying to copy the facilities of MU like attendance updates in a website portal, video lectures of class etc. and has failed completely to implement it. You can see only ‘Server crash’ on results day and get to see your results the next day or day after. Attendance is compulsory (carries marks). The only good thing is many good companies come to PES and students get placed well (mostly because of their own skills). MU has good placements too.

So if you want to live a life, Join MU.

All the best.