Available Medical Seats in Nepal
Information in this section is entirely a research work however it doesn't replace the existing facts, these information is published here to give you the general idea, it may be vary in many things so please just take it as a over view of medical seats in Nepal.
A. Scholarship 1. Nepal - Ministry of Education (MOE)
- Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
- Jagadamba Madan Purashkar Guthi
2. Abroad B. Non-Scholarship 1.Nepal - KU Affiliated Medical Colleges
- TU Affiliated Medical Colleges
- B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
2. Abroad Available Dental Seats in Nepal A. ScholarshipB. Non-Scholarship- BPKIHS Dharan
- People's Dental College
- Universal College of Medical Sciences
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Scholarship Nepal Ministry of Education (MOE)
The His Majesty's Government has the policy mandatory to allocate the 10% seats to the Ministry of Education (Scholarship) for every Medical College inside Nepal if it is conducted by the Nepalese Nationals. The allocation will be 20% if it is run by the foreign Nationals. So the easiest way to calculate the number of seats available is to count the Number of Private Medical Colleges in Nepal and find their Total enrollment per year. Then calculate the 10% of the total seats if is run by the Nepalese Nationals and 20% if it is run by the Foreign Nationals. The total outcome is the number of scholarship seats that Ministry of Education yearly sends from the Entrance it conducts. The Ministry of Education conducts the Entrance Exam twice a year in the interval of Six months. The two shifts are for:
- Aug/Sept Session
- Mar/Apr Session
The approximate number of the seats that the Private Colleges have allotted for the Scholarships are as follows in the preset status:
Kathmandu Medical College, Kathmandu 10
Manipal College Medical, Pokhara 30
College of Medical Science, Chitawan, Bharatpur 20
Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu 10
Nepalgunj Medical College, Chisapani, Nepalgunj 10
Universal Medical Collge, Bhairahawa 20
Kathmandu University Medical School 1*
National Medical College, Birgunj 6
Janaki Medical Collge, Janakpur 6
Mahendranagar Medical College, Mahendranagar 5
People's Dental College, Kathmandu -
Total Seat - 113
NB. It may be vary according to the medical seats offered by new medical colleges and embassies.
RESERVATIOONS: There has been reservation of 40% from the total seats. This is again distributed as:
Girl - 20% Janjati - 10% Dalit - 10%
Eligibility Criteria for the reserved seats: They have to have 50% in their I.Sc./10+2 OR equivalent instead of 60% the other competitors must have.
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Institute of Medicine (IOM)
The total capacity of Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj Campus is currently "Sixty". It recruits the students from the SAARC countries in Scholarship Basis especially from Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan (approximately Five). The rest are taken from all the SAARC countries in the PAYING BASIS i.e. about TWELVE seats. Unfortunately or fortunately this paying quota is not available for the Nepalese Nationals.
NB: The student applying for the staff seat qualifies for the free competition seat if his/her score comes within the limit of the free competition quota i.e. next to him/his will qualify from the staff quota.
Scholarship for SAARC countries - 5
Non-Scholarship for SAARC countries - 12
Staff seat - 1
Scholarship (Free competition) - 43
Total - 60
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B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
Free competition category - 16
Hill District Category - 1
Dalit Seat - 1
Indigenous Nationalities (Janajati) - 1
Women Seat - 1
BPKIHS Staff Seat - 1
Total seats - 24
RESERVATIONS: As we saw there is reservation for the Hill Districts (The name of the Hill Districts has been going on changing quite frequently. You will not be quite sure about the district that is actually in the list unless the notice is published for the Form distribution.), Dalits, Indigenous Nationalities (Janajatis), Women and BPKIHS staff.
Selected Hill Districts: (List may be changed ): Bajhang, Bajura, Darchula, Dolpa, Humla, Jajarkot, Jumla, Kalikot, Manang, Mugu, Mustang, Rukum, Solukhumbu.
Criteria: The candidates must be residents of these districts and must have passed class eight, nine and ten from public schools situated in these districts.
Indigenous Nationalities (Janajati): The candidates from the fourteen nationalities as defined by the National Foundation for Development of Indigenous nationalities are eligible to apply for the seat allotted to this group. The groups are: Kusunda, Bankaria, Raute, Kuswadiya, Kissan, Surel, Pahari, Meche, Raji, Bote, Hayu, Jirel, Lepchha, Santhal.
Dalit: Candidates from Dalit Group as listed in Hill Tribes and Terai Tribes by the National Dalit's Commission, HMGN are eligible for the seat allotted to this group.
Women Group: In this category of one seat, the female candidate meeting the criteria set by the BPKIHS can apply. The criteria roughly
- Parent(s) should not be holding the High level Educational/Governmental/Nongovernmental Posts and Positions (For detail see the Brochure of BPKIHS.
- The candidates must be the residents of one of the Districts selected by the BPKIHS and must have passed class 8,9 and 10 from public schools situated in those Districts. (For the list of the Districts see the Brochure of BPKIHS)
BPKIHS Staff Seat: This seat is fulfilled by the candidates who meet the criteria for BPKIHS Staff Seat on merit basis. The selection is completely on the merit basis by the Entrance Examination as others. The candidates are the Son/Daughter of BPKIHS Nepali Staff who have continuously served the Institute for Three years. After the selection of the child the staff has to continue his/her services at least for further Four Years if the Institute requires his/her services. Failure to comply this rule, the child of the staff should pay tuition fee as applicable for Partially Subsidized Tuition Fee Scheme.
NB: - The academic eligibility for the Reserved seat is also same i.e. 50% in their I.Sc./10+2 OR equivalent.
Jagadamba Madan Purashkar Guthi
Guthi generally doesn't publish the notice in the Newspapers. So, you have to frequently follow and ask them and get the information. They can change the exam pattern without any prior notice. The exam is held around the month of Baishakh.
Total No. of Seat 2
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Abroad
These are the Medical seats available from different countries. They send the students to their respective countries to study Medicine. The selection criteria differ with the country and their Embassies. Some of the Embassies simply ask the name of the qualified candidates from the Government of Nepal (Bangladesh Embassy, Pakistan Embassy) while others take the Entrance Examinations by themselves (Indian Embassy , Japanese Embassy). So the number of scholarship seats available from the Ministry of Education includes the abroad seats of Embassies that ask Government of Nepal to give them list of qualified students (Bangladesh Embassy, Pakistan Embassy)
Indian Embassy : 8-10
Pakistan Embassy : 5-10
Bangladesh Embassy : 8
Japanese Embassy : 1-2
Others (Chinese Embassy, Russia ) : ~ 5
NB: Indian Embassy, Pakistan Embassy and Japanese Embassy conduct their own Entrance Examination according to the criteria set by them. So, you have to apply accordingly and sit for the separate Entrance Examinations. The Bangladesh Embassy asks Ministry of Education to give the list of qualified candidates. So, the candidates who have appeared the Entrance Examination of MOE and are in the merit list can apply for the Bangladesh Embassy when they call for.
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Non-Scholarship Nepal
Following Medical seats available for those who can pay the Full Scale Fee for the Medical Study as defined by individual Medical Colleges in Nepal. This has popularly been known as "Donation Seats". Everybody of us is definitely aware of the expenses of the Medical Education around the world. There is the burgeoning of the private Medical Colleges in Nepal in post-democratic era of Nepal. So the medical aspirants with warm pocket have options whether to study in their own country or outside. There is no limitation that only certain number of students is allowed to study in the paying basis also. Of course there is the system of Entrance in Nepal for the Private Colleges but there is no such criteria you have to fulfill outside Nepal . You can directly contact the agencies working here in Nepal and apply for the colleges. The number has not been put with the Full Stop yet. So, we hope to see many more Private Medical Colleges with Flying Names in the future. Although we advised you to get medical seats in Nepal. The overview of the number of students they yearly enroll in paying basis has been given below.
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KU Affiliated Medical Colleges
Manipal College Medical, Pokhara - 120
Kathmandu Medical College , Kathmandu - 90
Nepal Medical College , Kathmandu - 90
College of Medical Science, Chitawan, Bharatpur - 80
Nepalgunj Medical College, Chisapani, Nepalgunj - 80
Kathmandu University Medical School - 45*
TU Affiliated Medical Colleges
Institute of Medicine - Few seats (for Foreigner only)
Universal Medical Collge, Bhairahawa - 54
National Medical College , Birgunj - 54
Janaki Medical Collge, Janakpur - 45
Mahendranagar Medical College , Mahendranagar 80
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B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences
This is an autonomous institute established jointly by India and Nepal. This is university already and runs entrance examinations itself for the students it needs. So the entrance examinations for the full scholarship and paying are conducted on the July First of each year.
There is Partially Subsidized Tuition Fee Scheme (PSTFS). Under this scheme, they have allotted 23 seats for Nepalese Nationals in 2003 but it vary from 20-25.
Total seats 20-25
NB: Here we have given the maximum number of seats for the non-scholarship quota. This does not mean that all the seats are for allocated for Nepalese citizen. Around >30-40% of the paying seats are fulfilled by the Foreign students especially from India. Foreign student from all over the world can apply for the admission in these colleges.
Basically 10% of the total seats in the medical college is given to the MOE candidates if the college is run by Nepali citizen and 20% if college is run by foreign citizen so accordingly you can calculate the no. of seats available in the medical colleges for e.g. KMC is run by Nepali Citizen and total no of intake per year is 100 therefore 10% i.e. 10 seats is given to MOE students the rest of 90 seats is left for non- scholarship quota.
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Abroad
As far as the Non-scholarship/Paying category of the Medical seats are concerned, there is no system to monitor in Nepal. So, the number of seats depends upon how many students are enrolling in the Colleges of the following countries. Formerly, it used to be Russia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines and India. The tuition fees in India is costlier than any the rest of the country listed below Initially Russia was very much popular but now a days it has lost its charm. As Russia used to enrolled the students even from the S.L.C. that caused a lot problem in Nepal. Especially Nepal Medical Council (NMC) is taking it very seriously so if you want to go Russia please contact NMC. But the recent trend has drifted to China.
The Private Medical Colleges that boomed post-democratic era of Nepal have done tremendous job to hold the students and foreign currency inside Nepal. The large number of interested, capable of paying fees and of course qualified candidates have been given chance to study at their door steps. Unfortunately, the private colleges are also targeting the foreign students especially from India. Now, it is also getting tougher to get admission in some of the Private Medical Colleges because they are getting better day by day in terms of quality.
The other possibilities is Bangladesh. Still, few students for undergraduate and few for Postgraduate are enrolling there. But recent trend is going down. So with that of Pakistan, Philippines yes, very less trendy and now that too seems stepped over by the China.
To get the admission in the above countries, please go through the daily news papers and contact consultancies.
Before choosing any medical college please go into the detail facts of the college, make sure it has standard medical education system so that you don't have to regret it after five and half year. It is better to take wise decision now than to regret later on. Simply don't... don't.... don't.... don't go for medical seat. Don't ever compromise medical seats with your future you can do better in other fields than having a life long pain. Because you won't get your moment back.
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Available Dental Seats in Nepal Scholarship (Total No. 15 - 20 seats/year)
MOE
People's Dental College, Kathmandu 4 Seats
Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa 5 Seats
BPKIHS Dharan
Free competition 5 Seats
Hill District Category 2 Seats
BPKIHS Staff Seat 1 Seat
Abroad: There is not fixed number of seats available from the abroad. It is also not sure whether it will be there or not.
Non-Scholarship (Total No. 115 - 130 seats/year)
BPKIHS Dharan
Partially Subsidized Tuition Fee Scheme
Nepali Nationals 16
Indian Nationals Not fixed
Full Tuition Fee Scheme
Nationals of SAARC Country 8
Nationals of non SAARC Country 8
People's Dental College, Kathmandu
Dental seat available 40
Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa
Dental seats available 50
NB: The abovementioned seats are not meant for Nepalese Nationals only. The colleges do admit the students from the other countries as well. So it is more or less similar story like that of MBBS seats of private college. However, now in the majority in the People's Dental College in the non scholarship quota are from Nepalese Nationals.
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