Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore is a private deemed medical college on Light House Hill Road in Mangaluru, Karnataka. It traces its origin to 1953, when T.M.A. Pai founded Kasturba Medical College as India's first medical college built on a public-private partnership model, with the pre-clinical section at Manipal and clinical training based in Mangalore at the government Wenlock and Lady Goschen hospitals. The first batch of Mangalore clinical students joined in 1955, and the Mangalore campus became an independent constituent college in 1977.
Today KMC Mangalore is one of two Kasturba Medical Colleges run as constituent units of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), a deemed-to-be university and Institution of Eminence.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Private, deemed university constituent college |
| Established | 1953 (institution founded); 1955 (Mangalore clinical section began); 1977 (independent unit) |
| Parent university | Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), deemed university |
| Address | Light House Hill Road, Hampankatta, Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka 575001 |
| MBBS intake | 250 seats/year, 100% NEET-UG plus MCC deemed-university counselling |
| Official website | manipal.edu/kmc-mangalore.html |
MBBS (4.5 years plus 1 year compulsory rotating internship, 250 seats/year), alongside MD/MS postgraduate and fellowship programmes across clinical and pre/para-clinical departments. Admission is entirely through NEET-UG and NEET-PG followed by MCC deemed-university counselling; there is no state-quota or domicile reservation.
| Year | Category | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Medical (NIRF) | 30 | 56.30 |
| 2024 | Medical (NIRF) | 33 | 57.12 |
| 2025 | Medical (NIRF) | 35 | 56.45 |
These are KMC Mangalore's own rankings, separate from KMC Manipal's NIRF entry.
KMC Mangalore runs nine student hostels on campus, five of which are designated women's hostels. Room types range from single and double AC rooms with attached bathrooms to non-AC rooms with shared washrooms. The main teaching campus houses lecture halls with audio-visual teaching aids and a library holding more than 10,000 volumes.
KMC was established as the country's first public-private-partnership medical college, combining a private trust-run institution with government teaching hospitals from its earliest years.
Undergraduate clinical training runs across the government Wenlock District Hospital and Lady Goschen Hospital as well as the college's own KMC Hospital, Attavar (600 beds) and KMC Hospital, Ambedkar Circle (250 beds).
KMC Mangalore is recognised by the UK General Medical Council, the Malaysian Medical Council, and is one of 20 institutions worldwide listed by ECFMG as an approved international medical school; its graduates come from more than 45 countries.
The college states it has the highest number of ICMR Short Term Studentship (STS) awards of any medical college in the country.
As a constituent college of MAHE, an Institution of Eminence with NAAC A++ accreditation, students get access to the university's shared research infrastructure and cross-campus programmes.
| Framework | Category | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Medical | 2025 | #35 |
| NIRF | Medical | 2024 | #33 |
| NIRF | Medical | 2023 | #30 |
25 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
Campus size, faculty strength, hostel facilities, and academic infrastructure.
