Nepal, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, and the Philippines are supposed to be the top 5 destinations to study MBBS abroad.
Manipal College of Medical Sciences
Manipal College of Medical Sciences is a private medical college located at Pokhara, in Nepal. It is associated with Manipal Teaching Hospital and enrolls about 100 students each year for the MBBS medical qualification.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education is synonymous with excellence in higher education. Over 28,000 students from 57 different nations live learn and play in the sprawling University town, nestled on a plateau in Karnataka’s Udupi district. It also has nearly 2500 faculty and almost 10000 other support and service staff, who cater to the various professional institutions in health sciences, engineering, management, communication, and humanities which dot the Wi-Fi-enabled campus.
The University has off-campuses in Mangalore and Bangalore, and off-shore campuses in Dubai (UAE) and Melaka (Malaysia). The Mangalore campus offers medical, dental, and nursing programs. The Bangalore Campus offers programs in Regenerative Medicine. The Dubai campus offers programs in engineering, management, and architecture, and the Melaka campus offers programs in medicine and dentistry.
Every institute has world-class facilities and pedagogy, which are constantly reviewed and upgraded to reflect the latest trends and developments in higher education.
In Manipal, these include educational facilities like the Simulation Lab with computer driven Manikins, an Innovation Centre, one of Asia’s largest health sciences libraries, one of the world’s best anatomy museums, a business incubation center, and various other centers of excellence. Academic collaborations and twinning programs with several universities in the US, UK, Australia, and other countries ensure that students get international exposure and expertise.
The MARENA, a massive indoor sports complex with five badminton courts, four squash courts, three tennis courts, a basketball court, a hi-tech gym, and a walking track, reflects the university’s belief that a healthy mind needs a healthy body.
Part of the Manipal Group, the University is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001: 2004 certified, and has won the prestigious IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award and the International Asia Pacific Quality Award in 2007- 2008.
The Manipal Group, a pioneer in higher education services with a 60-year-old legacy of excellence, also owns and operates campuses in Sikkim and Jaipur in India, and in Nepal, Malaysia, and Antigua, in the Caribbean.
Global leadership in human development, excellence in education and health care
To be among the most preferred destination for students and teachers of health sciences at all
levels of medical education in Nepal.
International bonding to achieve all-round recognition
for excellence in health care delivery among Southeast Asian Nations
To achieve acceptance of Manipal College of Medical Sciences as an excellent learning center and dependable and affordable healthcare provider in Nepal
As the college is listed in the 7th edition of the WHO’s World Directory of Accredited Medical Schools, the International Medical Education Directory of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), which holds the United States Medical Licensing Examinations, recognizes the MBBS degree awarded by MCOMS.
Established in 1994, the first batch graduated in 1999. Since then every year one/two batches have graduated. Most of the students have passed their postgraduate entrance exams / various international exams i.e., Medical Council Exams of USA (USMLE), UK (PLAB), Australia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka (Act XVI / ERPM) with commendable scores.
anipal College of Medical Sciences provides a four-and-a-half-year MBBS degree program in all the preclinical subjects and selected clinical subjects. The four-and-a-half years MBBS course is divided into 9 semesters of 6 months each. Upon successful completion of the course, students will undergo a 1 year compulsory residential rotating internship. The medium of instruction is English.
Approx 1700 students have passed out of MOCMS to date & most of these graduates have successfully qualified for USMLE (USA), PLAB (UK), ERPM (Sri-Lanka), AMC (Australia) with commendable scores and also completed their post-graduation in the USA, Canada, UK, South Africa & Australia.
A system of continuous evaluation is followed through fortnightly tests, semester exams, end-posting evaluations, seminars & problem-based learning sessions. The continuous evaluation system has helped to achieve excellent results in the university examinations. Parents are kept informed of the progress of their wards.
Fortnightly academic time tables are prepared, giving details of the teaching program with topics to be covered. These are put up well in advance. To support the integrated approach, seminars and PBLS are conducted every fortnight on important diseases/ syndromes. This gives the preclinical students a better clinical orientation of the systems being taught. Concurrent evaluation is done by fortnightly test, viva-voce, seminars, and PBLs. Semester examinations are held at the end of each 6 months.
The Teaching Program in Clinical Sciences consists ofThe above teaching sessions take an average of forty-two hours/week, out of which there are 12 didactic lectures per week. The stress is mainly on Clinical/ Practical training. The students are periodically assessed by conducting end posting clinical exams (Clinical and Viva), mid-semester exams, and end-semester exams.
One year of a rotating internship is compulsory. The Kathmandu University and Nepal Medical Council have approved six different schemes for internships for students of different countries, as per the requirements of their medical councils. Manipal College of Medical Sciences students do their internships in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, USA, UK, and South Africa. Internship rules are subject to change as per the rules of the medical council.
The College admits approx. 100 students per year in the MBBS program, each year.
International applications for the 34th Batch of the MBBS program, commencing in 2020, are open. Please apply online at www.manipal.edu.np at the earliest, within the last date of application submission specified at the college website. You would need to upload the following documents (in PDF/image format) while applying online:
Application is processed for completeness, adequacy, and minimum eligibility requirements based on the marks obtained in the qualifying examination. Incomplete application, lacking necessary certificates, or payment of the application fee would be rejected forthwith without any further correspondence.
Kathmandu University / Government of Nepal would conduct an offline Medical Entrance Test (MET) sometime in Aug/Sep and admission would be based on the merit of the entrance exam score. Applicants are advised to prepare themselves and keep in touch with the Manipal College of Medical Sciences website for the entrance exam registration form, date, and venue of the entrance exam, etc.
| MBBS Tuition Fee- Indian and International Admissions | Indian Nationals | Other International |
|---|---|---|
| (Indian Rupees) | (USD) | |
| Total (in installment) | 7,500,000.00 | 1,10,000.00 |
The Basic Sciences students are accommodated in hostels in the Deep Campus. The rooms are planned for twin occupancy. The campus has two dining halls, a canteen, gym, TV, playing fields, communications center with internet, email, fax, photocopying facilities, etc.
The mission of the library is to acquire, manage, provide, and disseminate all health sciences information to students, faculty, and research scholars of the college.
The library of Manipal College of Medical Science is functioning from a spilled campus, it has been necessary to duplicate the library facilities. The main library is at Deep with an extension at MTH, Phulbari to look after the basic and clinical science students respectively.
Both the libraries are open from 8:30 AM to 12:00 midnight on all weekdays including Saturdays and holidays except Dashain and Tihar (Deepawali) vacations.
The college has playing fields for cricket, basketball, football, and volleyball. Among the indoor games, there are facilities for badminton, table tennis, carom, and chess. Inter-batch competitions and friendly matches continue through the year.
Nepal provides ample opportunities for outdoor activities like trekking and river rafting and the students enjoy these to the full.
Messes on the two campuses provide Indo-Nepali vegetarian / non-vegetarian food. The monthly mess bill is approx. Nepali Rs6, 000/- for four meals a day.
Both the campuses have canteens, attached to the dining halls, and their rates are regulated through rate contracts.
Medicare is compulsory for all students. Under Medicare, consultations, hospital admissions, and investigations are free (though some special investigations like CT scan, etc. are not entirely free). However, all medicines will have to be paid for, after a discount of 10%. Manipal Teaching Hospital has all basic and some of the super specialty services, with excellent diagnostic support.
Students are transported in the college buses for all of the academic activities and thus college rules do not permit students to keep any personal vehicles.
Transportation for group movements within the city, other than academic purposes, is also provided on a cost basis.
Hostels are equipped with high-speed internet facility (Fiber Optic LAN, as well as Wi-Fi), installed by outsourced internet service providers named World Link and Pokhara Internet. Students need to subscribe to internet connections in their hostel rooms.
Nepal, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, and the Philippines are supposed to be the top 5 destinations to study MBBS abroad.
It can cost you around 20 – 30 lakhs minimum. However, in some countries, the amount can go up to 50 to 60 lakhs.
It might cost you somewhere around 20-25 lakh.
The cost of pursuing MBBS in Nepal is low because the Nepal government provides subsidies on education.
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