Total Medical Colleges and MBBS Seats in India: Get State-wise list of MBBS Colleges and Seats

India has a total of 84,649 MBBS seats in 562 Medical Colleges currently, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare  Ashwini Kumar Choube recently said in the Parliament. He also provided statewise details of total number of MBBS seats citing data source of NMC. 

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare  Ashwini Kumar Choube recently provided the details about the total number of MBBS seats in medical colleges across country for the academic year 2020-21. He said the country has a total of 562 Medical Colleges currently including 286 government and 276 private institutes. Citing the data source of National Medical Commission, the Apex Medical Regulator, the Health Minister said there are 84,649 MBBS seats in 562 Medical Colleges in the country at the moment.

The Minister provided information about the total number of seats in Medical Colleges while participating during a recent Lok Sabha Session. He also provided details of statewise data of medical colleges, both government and private, and the total number of MBBS seats in those colleges.

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As per the data, Karnataka tops the list of the state with maximum number of MBBS seats followed by Maharashtra , Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarat.  61 Medical Colleges of Karnataka have a total of 9445 seats. In Maharashtra, there are  a  total of 9180 MBBS seats across 60 Medical Colleges. Tamil Nadu which ranks third in the list, has 53 Medical Colleges with 8025 MBBS seats.

Uttar Pradesh’s 57 Medical Colleges offers 7975 MBBS seats while Gujarat’s 3o medical Colleges have 5700 seats.Chandigarh, Mizoram, and Andaman & Nicobar islands, have 1 Medical College each with 100 MBBS seats in their respective GMCs.The State of Sikkim, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh have 1 Medical Colleges each with 50 seats.
Nagaland has no Medical College for students to study medicine currently. 

The Health Minister also informed about the steps undertaken to increase the Medical seats in order to increase the overall number of doctors in the country. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is the sole entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in India at present. The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts NEET 2021 for admission to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, Veterinary and other medical/paramedical courses in India. 

Total MBBS Colleges and Seats in India: Statewise list

Data for MBBS seats in Medical Colleges as on (01.02.2021) for 2020-21
	No. of Colleges			MBBS seats
Name of the State	Govt.	Pvt.	Total	Govt.	EWS Seats	Pvt.	Total
Andhra Pradesh	13	18	31	2517	0	2800	5317
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	1	0	1	100	0	0	100
Assam	8	0	8	1000	0	0	1000
Arunachal Pradesh	1	0	1	50	0	0	50
Bihar	11	7	18	1465	0	700	2165
Chandigarh	1	0	1	100	0	0	100
Chhattisgarh	7	3	10	895	0	450	1345
Dadar & Nagar Haveli	1	0	1	150	27	0	177
Delhi	8	2	10	1115	0	200	1315
Goa	1	0	1	180	0	0	180
Gujarat	17	13	30	3650	0	2050	5700
Haryana	5	7	12	760	25	1000	1785
Himachal Pradesh	6	1	7	720	0	150	870
Jammu & Kashmir	8	1	9	985	15	100	1100
Jharkhand	7	1	8	730	0	150	880
Karnataka	19	42	61	2800	50	6595	9445
Kerala	10	21	31	1505	0	2800	4305
Madhya Pradesh	14	9	23	2135	0	1750	3885
Maharashtra	26	34	60	4460	0	4720	9180
Manipur	2	0	2	225	0	0	225
Meghalaya	1	0	1	50	0	0	50
Mizoram	1	0	1	100	0	0	100
Nagaland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Odisha	8	4	12	1250	0	700	1950
Pondicherry	2	7	9	380	0	1150	1530
Punjab	4	7	11	650	0	575	1225
Rajasthan	16	8	24	2925	30	1300	4255
Sikkim	0	1	1	0	0	50	50
Tamil Nadu	26	27	53	3400	25	4600	8025
Telangana	11	23	34	1790	25	3450	5265
Tripura	1	1	2	125	0	100	225
Uttar Pradesh	26	31	57	3325	0	4650	7975
Uttarakhand	4	2	6	550	0	300	850
West Bengal	20	6	26	3150	25	850	4025
Total	286	276	562	43237	222	41190	84649

The Minister also provided data of the government and private medical colleges set up in the country during each of the last five years:

Academic Year	Number of Medical Colleges		Total Medical College
	Govt.	Pvt.
2016-17	12	27	37
2017-18	9	5	14
2018-19	18	5	23
2019-20	34	12	46
2020-21	6	15	21