Kailkere Rukmini Shetty Memorial College of Nursing is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and recognised by Indian Nursing council, New Delhi and Karnataka State Nursing Council, Bangalore. Located in the port city of Karnataka, known as educational and healthcare hub of the West Coast of India, we prepare future nurses based on sound and student centered educational principles.

Rukmini Shetty Memorial College is one of the mainstream nursing colleges in Mangalore with excellent performance in the university examinations and other co curricular activities. They strive for excellence in education, research, and clinical care, and each mission is vital to our overall success. Diversity and inclusiveness, independent inquiry, and collegiality form the fabric of everyday life for faculty and students.

Kailkere Rukmini Shetty Memorial College of Nursing is a unit of Nandavan Education Trust, started in the year 2005 by Dr. K. Bhasker Shetty, in memory of his late beloved mother Mrs. Kailkere Rukmini Shetty. It is a registered educational trust established primarily for imparting higher education along with professional values among the novice nursing students and to encourage, foster and create next generation nurses toimpart holistic health care services irrespective of religion, caste or creed.