ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Sanathnagar, is a central government medical college in Hyderabad, Telangana, established in 2016 under the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), a statutory body of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. Affiliated to Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal, the college sits on a 33.77-acre campus in central Hyderabad and runs an attached 800-bed teaching hospital alongside a dedicated 244-bed super-specialty block, offering MBBS along with a range of postgraduate and super-specialty programmes.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Central government medical college (ESIC, Ministry of Labour and Employment) |
| Location | Sanathnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana |
| Established | 2016 |
| Affiliation | Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal |
| Campus | 33.77 acres |
| NAAC grade | Not applicable, regulated by NMC rather than NAAC |
| NIRF | Not ranked in the 2023 or 2025 Medical category top-50 lists |
| MBBS seats | 125 (up from 100 at the 2020-21 intake, per the college's own NIRF data submission) |
| PG seats | 83 broad-specialty MD/MS seats (3-year), 4 seats (2-year), plus 29 super-specialty (DM/M.Ch/DrNB fellowship) and a 25-seat AFIH course started 2024-25 |
| Official website | mchyderabad.esic.gov.in |
| Programme | Duration | Seats | Approx fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBBS | 5.5 years (4.5-year academic + 1-year internship) | 125 (43 IP-quota, remainder AIQ + Telangana State Quota) | Tuition Rs 24,000/year (IP quota) to Rs 1,00,000/year (AIQ and State Quota); approx Rs 1.08 lakh (IP quota) to Rs 4.5 lakh (AIQ/State quota) total tuition over the course, per ESIC Headquarters-mandated fee circulars |
| MD/MS (broad specialties) | 3 years | 83 | Not published on an official Hyderabad-specific notice; aggregator estimates unverified, not stated here |
| MD/MS (2-year stream) | 2 years | 4 | Not published on an official Hyderabad-specific notice |
| DM/M.Ch/DrNB (super-specialty fellowship) | 3 years | 29 | Not published on an official Hyderabad-specific notice |
| AFIH (Associate Fellow of Industrial Health) | Certificate course, started 2024-25 | 25 | Not published on an official Hyderabad-specific notice |
MBBS admission runs through NEET UG and three parallel routes: 15 percent All India Quota via MCC counselling, Telangana State Quota via KNRUHS-linked state counselling, and a separate national pool of 43 seats at this campus for wards of ESI-Insured Persons, filled through DGHS's own centralised online counselling as confirmed in ESIC's official Admission Notice for academic session 2025-26.
The MBBS tuition fee itself is not set by the college individually. ESIC Headquarters issues a common fee circular across its medical colleges, and two such official circulars reviewed for this page (Alwar, A/Y 2025-26, and Bangalore, A/Y 2023-24) both confirm identical tuition slabs of Rs 24,000/year for IP-quota students and Rs 1,00,000/year for AIQ and State Quota students, plus a refundable caution deposit of Rs 5,000 and hostel charges where opted. A Hyderabad-specific published fee notice could not be located on the college's own site, since its Fee Detail and Prospectus pages render as empty search interfaces. The figures above reflect the confirmed ESIC-wide policy rather than a Hyderabad-only document; see the editorial notes for full sourcing.
Postgraduate MD, MS, DM, M.Ch, and DrNB fellowship seat counts come directly from the college's own 2025 NIRF data submission and its official accreditation listing, but no official Hyderabad-specific fee notice for these programmes was found, so PG fee figures are intentionally left unstated rather than sourced from aggregator listings.
ESIC Medical College Hyderabad does not appear in NIRF's Medical category rankings for 2023 or 2025, both of which list exactly the top 50 ranked institutions nationally; this was confirmed by checking nirfindia.org's published ranking pages directly rather than relying on aggregator claims. The college does submit annual data to NIRF's Data Capturing System (its own site lists NIRF report PDFs for 2023, 2025, and 2026), but a data submission is not the same as a published rank, and no rank or score should be inferred from it. The college has no NAAC grade since medical colleges fall outside NAAC's UGC-linked accreditation scope.
The 33.77-acre Sanathnagar campus includes an Academic Block, New OPD Block, Hospital Block, dedicated Hostel Blocks, and Staff Quarters, with well-maintained grounds and free basement parking for staff, students, and visitors. The college's student-zone navigation confirms separate hostel and sports-hostel facilities alongside a library and dining block, though room-type, capacity, and fee details are not published on the official site and are left unconfirmed here rather than sourced from aggregator pages. The attached hospital complex (800-bed main hospital plus a 244-bed super-specialty block) sits on the same campus, giving students clinical postings without needing to travel off-site.
An 800-bed main hospital (88 ICU beds, 14 modular OTs) plus a separate 244-bed super-specialty hospital (44 ICU beds, 45 dialysis beds, 4 advanced OTs) gives students hands-on clinical exposure across general and super-specialty departments on one campus.
As a Ministry of Labour and Employment institution, MBBS tuition follows ESIC's centrally set fee slabs rather than private-college market rates, keeping costs well below most private medical colleges (see Programmes section).
Beyond MBBS, the college runs 83 broad-specialty PG seats and 29 super-specialty DM/M.Ch/DrNB fellowship seats, letting students pursue postgraduate and super-specialty training without changing institutions.
A national pool of 43 seats at this campus is reserved for wards of ESI-Insured Persons, filled through a separate DGHS-run centralised counselling, in addition to the standard AIQ and State Quota routes.
The college collaborates with IIT Hyderabad, NIPER, ECIL, and DRDO, and was the first medical college in Telangana to offer postgraduate programmes in physical and medical rehabilitation, family medicine, and transfusion medicine (started 2023-24).
29 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
