Best medical colleges in Nepal

Choosing the best college and becoming a part of that community is what every student dreams and desires. Furthermore, studying medicine in the best medical college is somewhat a higher pursuit.

Availability of experts on different fields, on going researches and clinical trials, modern technologies, competitive environment, number of hospital beds, patient flow, level of patient care and patient satisfaction, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions available, rate of referral to higher centers, graduate satisfaction, job opportunity and whereabouts of graduate besides so many other factors should be considered to designate how good a medical college is.

I recently came across the lists of medical colleges in Nepal prepared and presented in webpages which were somehow incomplete and unjustified. The information is somehow misleading and incongruent to the prevailing ideas and facts about the medical colleges of Nepal.


This blogger is trying to list the medical colleges of Nepal on the basis of competition on entrance exams, students first choice, patient’s choice for care, number of hospital beds, level of expertise, rate of referral of patients from and in, year of establishment, cost of studying (from admission till the graduation), curriculum, assessments and examination in different phases, performance of graduate in the field. However, due to technical difficulties and unavailability of pertinent data, exact figure is not written in this blog. Anyone who is willing to share the idea or data is welcome.


This blog will serve as a list of current medical colleges in Nepal as well as the (probable) rank of them.

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1. Institute of Medicine: a major medical college of Tribhuvan university which is a largest and oldest university of Nepal. More than 5 thousands of students compete for the position of 40 each year. It has problem based learning environment with community oriented integrated basic science  curriculum. (Tribhuvan University)

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2. BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (Independent).

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3. Manipal College of medical sciences (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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4. Kathmandu Medical College (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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5. Universal College of Medical Sciences (TU affiliate).

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6. Kathmandu University Medical Sciences (University College).

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7. National Medical College (TU affiliate).

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8. Nepal Medical College (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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9. College of Medical Sciences (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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10. Nepalgunj Medical College (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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11. Lumbini Medical College (Kathmandu University Affiliate).

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12. Janaki Medical College (TU affiliate).

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13. KIST Medical College (TU affiliate).

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14. Nobel Medical College (Purbanchal University Affiliate).

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15. Gandaki Medical College (TU affiliate).

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If readers are interested in more information about the specific institution and hospital, I will suggest them to visit their website. Furthermore, if anyone is willing to study medicine in Nepal, I will be more than happy if they do research by themselves. It is just a guidance and list of available medical colleges in Nepal. There are more than one medical entrance preparation institute in Nepal and one can research through the students appearing for various medical entrance examinations conducted throughout Nepal.

I hope you are now enlighten with this read. I will be more than happy if you have anything to add on this topic. Do you think this is an appropriate list?