Osmania Medical College traces its origin to the Hyderabad Medical School, founded in 1846 under the fifth Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab Afzal-ud-Dowla, making it one of the oldest medical institutions in India. It took its present name and structure in 1919-20 alongside the founding of Osmania University by the seventh Nizam. The college is a government institution affiliated with the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal, and is recognised by the National Medical Commission. Its primary teaching hospital is Osmania General Hospital, a heritage 1910 building on the banks of the Musi river, along with attached specialty hospitals including Niloufer Hospital for paediatrics.
The college is credited with pioneering 19th-century anaesthesia research (the "Hyderabad Chloroform Commission") and counts Rupa Bai Furdoonji, widely regarded as the world's first qualified female anaesthesiologist (1889), among its early graduates.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Established | 1846 (as Hyderabad Medical School); renamed Osmania Medical College 1919-20 |
| Type | Government medical college |
| Affiliating university | Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal |
| Address | 5-1-876, Turrebaz Khan Road, Troop Bazaar, Koti, Hyderabad, Telangana 500095 |
| Teaching hospital | Osmania General Hospital (approx. 1,168 beds) plus attached specialty hospitals |
| MBBS seats | 250 |
| NIRF 2025 Medical | Rank 48, score 51.46 |
| Official website | omc.ac.in |
MBBS admission is NEET-UG based, with 250 seats. The college runs 43 course rows in total across MBBS, Diploma, MD, DM, and M.Ch specialisations, with seat counts populated for each; per-specialisation fee data is not yet independently verified and is left blank rather than estimated.
| Framework | Category | Rank | Score | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Medical | 48 | 51.46 | 2025 |
| NIRF | Medical | 48 | 50.99 | 2024 |
Osmania did not appear in the published NIRF Medical ranking list for 2023.
Sources: nirfindia.org/Rankings/2025/MedicalRanking.html and /2024/MedicalRanking.html (direct fetch).
The college maintains separate on-campus hostels for men and women, both with standard room furnishings and mess facilities. The campus, in the older Koti-Troop Bazaar part of central Hyderabad, includes basic sports infrastructure and a student cultural calendar built around the annual OSMECON medical symposium.
Traces to 1846, predating most government medical colleges in the country, with a documented 19th-century history in anaesthesia research and early female medical graduates.
Runs roughly 65 DM and M.Ch seats across 14 disciplines, including Cardiology, Neurology, Nephrology, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Plastic Surgery, giving MD graduates an unusually wide in-house path to super-specialisation.
Clinical training runs through Osmania General Hospital and sister institutions such as Niloufer Hospital, exposing students to high patient volumes across general medicine, paediatrics, and tropical disease.
As a state government college, MBBS tuition is set at government rates, with SC, ST, and EWS concessions applied per standard Telangana state policy.
Separate on-campus hostels for men and women, plus sports facilities including a cricket and football ground, basketball, tennis, and table tennis courts.
| Framework | Category | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Medical | 2025 | #48 |
| NIRF | Medical | 2024 | #48 |
43 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
12 cutoff records across exams, courses, and categories.
| Year | R | Exam | Course | Category | Gender | Quota | Opening | Closing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | General | Gender-Neutral | AI | 1113 | 3517 |
| 2024 | 1 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | OBC | Gender-Neutral | AI | 4938 | 5206 |
| 2024 | 1 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | SC | Gender-Neutral | AI | 24708 | 32198 |
| 2024 | 1 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | ST | Gender-Neutral | AI | 47326 | 60966 |
| 2024 | 1 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | EWS | Gender-Neutral | AI | 5032 | 6915 |
| 2024 | 2 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | General | Gender-Neutral | AI | 3622 | 4559 |
| 2024 | 2 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | OBC | Gender-Neutral | AI | 6091 | 567024 |
| 2024 | 2 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | ST | Gender-Neutral | AI | 12397 | 12397 |
| 2024 | 2 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | EWS | Gender-Neutral | AI | 8198 | 8777 |
| 2024 | 3 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | General | Gender-Neutral | AI | 4859 | 5919 |
| 2024 | 3 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | OBC | Gender-Neutral | AI | 7798 | 7798 |
| 2024 | 3 | NEET UG | MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | SC | Gender-Neutral | AI | 39685 | 47890 |
Campus size, faculty strength, hostel facilities, and academic infrastructure.
