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Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru

Bengaluru, KarnatakaGovernment · RGUHSMBBS · MD · MS · DM · M.Ch

K. R. Road, Fort, Bengaluru

Government medical college250 MBBS intake · 2026–2732 named qualifications

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Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute main building
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MEDICINE · BENGALURU · GOVERNMENT

BMCRI Bengaluru: courses, hospitals and student life

Established in 1955, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute combines medical education with a network of public teaching hospitals in central Bengaluru. Its campus on K. R. Road is linked with Victoria, Vani Vilas, Minto, PMSSY and trauma-care settings.

Established 1955RGUHS affiliation250 MBBS intake · 2026–27
BMCRI main building on K. R. Road, photographed in February 2020
BMCRI building · 16 February 2020 · LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo credit and licence
MBBS annual intake250NMC · 2026–27 · not vacanciesFirst-year academic total₹75,3002026–27 manual · general categoryNamed qualifications321 MBBS · 24 MD/MS · 7 DM/M.Ch

About BMCRI Bengaluru

1955Mysore Education Society founding
1957Government management
1996RGUHS affiliation recorded

BMCRI began as a private medical school established by the Mysore Education Society in 1955. The government took over its management in 1957. Its institutional history records affiliation to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences from 1996. The names Bangalore and Bengaluru appear in different publications; this page concerns the same government institution on K. R. Road, not a separate private college.

The college is based in the Fort area of Bengaluru. Its academic setting extends beyond a single teaching block: the attached public hospitals provide distinct settings for general medicine and surgery, women’s and children’s health, ophthalmology, specialist care and emergency care. Classroom study, laboratory practical work and supervised hospital postings form different parts of medical training.

For a student, this means that college reporting, academic attendance and clinical postings may involve different locations. The college’s admission manual identifies the reporting venue, while the teaching timetable determines the hospital unit used by a batch. The presence of several hospitals should not be read as a promise of a particular individual procedure count or an unsupervised clinical role.

BMCRI college highlights

InstitutionGovernmentBengaluru, Karnataka
Medical qualificationsMBBS · MD/MS · DM/M.Ch32 individual catalogue entries
MBBS entranceNEET UGKEA / MCC according to quota
Campus addressK. R. Road, FortBengaluru 560002
Dated institutional and academic snapshot
College detailBMCRI reference
Full identityBangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru
Institution codeKA/005/G/1
University affiliationRajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
MBBS annual intake250 · AY 2026–27 · NMC 18 September 2026
Postgraduate and super-speciality scope31 named qualifications · NMC 29 September 2026
Academic durationMBBS: 4½ academic years plus one-year compulsory rotating internship

Medical courses at BMCRI

UNDERGRADUATE

MBBS

250 annual places in the dated 2026–27 NMC table. The programme combines foundational sciences, clinical study and the compulsory rotating internship.

POSTGRADUATE

MD and MS

19 individually named MD qualifications and five MS qualifications. Entry follows the relevant NEET PG and counselling requirements.

SUPER-SPECIALITY

DM and M.Ch

Three DM and four M.Ch qualifications appear in the reviewed NMC table. Applicants need the course-specific eligible feeder qualification and relevant NEET SS route.

The course catalogue contains 32 named medical qualifications. This is a count of degree-and-specialty entries, not the total number of seats. The 24-entry MD/MS group and seven-entry DM/M.Ch group are subsets of that catalogue.

Medical and surgical subjects are shown individually on the Courses page with their duration, entry qualification, examination/counselling route and dated intake. The undergraduate intake table is dated 18 September 2026; the postgraduate and super-speciality table is dated 29 September 2026. Both refer to AY 2026–27.

BMCRI qualifications, not seat quotas
QualificationNamed entriesAdmission examination
MBBS1NEET UG
MD19NEET PG
MS5NEET PG
DM3NEET SS
M.Ch4NEET SS
Search all 32 courses →

Teaching hospitals and clinical learning

BMCRI’s identity is closely linked with its attached public hospitals. The institutional profile names Victoria, Vani Vilas, Minto, the PMSSY super-speciality hospital and the Trauma and Emergency Care Centre. These settings serve different clinical purposes and should not be presented as interchangeable campuses.

The medical course links scientific foundations with patient assessment, case discussion and supervised clinical learning. Undergraduate postings and the rotating internship are separate stages. Postgraduate and super-speciality training is tied to a named degree, specialty and eligible training unit.

General hospital teaching

Victoria Hospital

The institutional profile identifies Victoria as part of the attached public-hospital network. Clinical postings depend on the course and unit timetable.

Women’s and children’s healthcare

Vani Vilas Women and Children’s Hospital

This setting is relevant to obstetric, gynaecological and paediatric learning within the supervised programme.

Eye-care setting

Minto Ophthalmic Hospital

The ophthalmic hospital provides a distinct clinical context for eye-care teaching and the related specialty.

Advanced specialist care

PMSSY super-speciality hospital

The named hospital is part of the institution’s specialist-care setting; course-specific exposure follows the relevant teaching unit.

Emergency and trauma setting

Trauma and Emergency Care Centre

The centre adds an emergency-care setting to the network. Student responsibilities remain governed by training stage and supervision.

Admission process and college reporting

STEP 01

Examination and counselling

MBBS applicants use NEET UG. Applicable Karnataka state seats go through KEA; applicable All India quota seats go through MCC.

STEP 02

Allotment and documents

The allotment identifies the institution, qualification, quota and reporting window. Registration in counselling is different from completing admission at BMCRI.

STEP 03

Report personally at BMCRI

The 2026–27 manual requires the candidate to report in person. The process cannot be completed only online or through a representative.

The manual identifies the new college block on K. R. Road, opposite Kote Sri Venkateshwara Swamy Temple and Fort High School, as the reporting venue. Document verification precedes authorised payment and issue of the admission letter. All India and state-quota entrants have different document requirements, so the applicable checklist follows the allotted route.

For MD/MS, the qualifying medical degree, internship and registration requirements accompany the relevant NEET PG route. DM/M.Ch admission follows the eligible feeder qualification and NEET SS process.

Read the BMCRI admission section →

Academic fees: tuition, university charges and joining costs

The retained BMCRI 2026–27 manual gives a general-category first-year academic total of ₹75,300. It is a joining-stage total with several components, not a statement that ₹75,300 is recurring annual tuition throughout the course. The tuition component is ₹55,000; university-related and other college charges are shown separately below.

BMCRI MBBS · retained 2026–27 first-year schedule
First-year general-category componentAmountScope
Tuition₹55,000Tuition component of the retained first-year schedule
University-related charges₹9,350Included in the stated first-year academic total
Other college charges₹10,950Includes the caution-deposit component listed in the manual
First-year academic total₹75,300₹55,000 + ₹9,350 + ₹10,950; general-category schedule

The same manual distinguishes certain state-quota SC/ST/Category-I payments from the general-category figure. The conditional ₹11,300 figure is not a universal fee for every reserved-category or All India quota entrant. All India quota students are described as paying the full ₹75,300 at admission, with eligible reimbursement handled through the respective state.

A separate KEA allotment-result row records ₹64,350 as a course-fee field. Its payment period is not established by that result row. It must not be described as annual tuition or added automatically to the college’s ₹75,300 joining total, because the payments may overlap. A full-course total is not calculated from these unlike amounts.

See programme and quota fee details →

Hostel accommodation and living costs

The hostel schedule retained with the admission material separates yearly room rent from one-time mess and caution deposits. The university/college academic bill and the hostel bill describe different services. A college seat does not itself establish a hostel-room allotment.

Retained undergraduate hostel schedule; room availability is separate
Undergraduate hostel componentPayable amountRefund or payment basis
Room rent₹16,500Per year; not shown refundable
Mess deposit₹15,000One-time; ₹7,500 shown refundable
Caution deposit₹15,000One-time; ₹7,500 shown refundable
Admission fee₹500One-time
Water and electricityConsumption-basedMonthly billing; no fixed amount asserted

The first four payable components add to ₹47,000 if all apply to the allotted undergraduate hostel place. This is a transparent calculation from that schedule, not an all-inclusive annual living-cost estimate. Ongoing mess charges, consumption-based utilities and personal expenditure are additional; refundable portions retain their own conditions.

BMCRI’s central Bengaluru location and hospital network make the daily journey relevant to accommodation choices. The college block, assigned hospital unit and accommodation are different destinations. This overview does not publish a fixed commuting time, a guaranteed room, an internet speed or a hostel capacity without supporting evidence.

MBBS cutoffs: read the authority, round and rank type

The installed BMCRI cutoff section separates MCC 2026 All India quota observations from selected historical KEA 2024 state-counselling cells. MCC rows below use NEET All India Rank and the allotted Open category. They are observed allocation endpoints from the retained extract, rather than a predicted future closing rank.

BMCRI MBBS: retained result-row observations by round
MCC 2026 · All India quota · allotted Open categoryLowest observed NEET AIRHighest observed NEET AIR
Round 11091,774
Round 21,0762,716
Round 34741,894

A larger AIR number is a different rank position, not a higher examination mark. Category headings refer to the allotment category used in the result, which must not be silently replaced by the candidate’s category. Karnataka reservation categories and KEA table headings remain separate from this MCC extract.

The source year, round, course, quota and rank scale travel with each figure. The detailed Cutoffs page retains the other allotted-category observations and separately labelled KEA cells.

Read all category and round tables →

Explore BMCRI Bengaluru

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The BMCRI MBBS learning timeline

Academic data in context

Academic study and internship

4.5 academic years · 81.8% of published duration

1 internship year · 18.2% of published duration

Duration composition. This is not a student, seat or placement chart.

MBBS duration composition; not a seat or placement chart
MBBS phaseDurationShare of the 5.5-year programme
Academic study4.5 years81.8%
Compulsory rotating internship1 year18.2%

Library, laboratories and skills facilities

The institutional profile describes classrooms, teaching laboratories, museums, skills facilities, a library and auditoriums, alongside the hospital network. These are learning resources rather than separately invented academic programmes.

Laboratory and museum work supports the scientific and specimen-based parts of medical study. The retained 2026–27 fee material includes a simulation-skills-laboratory component. Practical training is part of an organised course: access, teaching sessions and assessments follow the college’s academic arrangements.

Library resources support reading around lectures, case discussions and postgraduate specialty work. The Facilities section brings together the dated institutional material without importing facilities belonging to another Bengaluru college.

FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCES

Laboratory and museum learning

Academic practical work is distinct from patient-care duties in a clinical posting.

SKILLS

Supervised practice

Simulation and skills teaching support procedural preparation within the programme.

STUDY RESOURCES

Library and academic spaces

The institutional profile identifies the library, classrooms and auditoriums as part of the learning setting.

BMCRI facilities and clinical resources →

Location and Google Map

BMCRI’s college address is K. R. Road, Fort, Bengaluru 560002, Karnataka. Its 2026–27 reporting manual identifies the new college block opposite Kote Sri Venkateshwara Swamy Temple and Fort High School. Hospital postings use the relevant assigned clinical location, not necessarily the admission-reporting desk.

BMCRI student questions

Practical quick answers

Is BMCRI a government college?

Yes. The institutional history records founding by the Mysore Education Society in 1955 and government takeover in 1957. RGUHS affiliation is recorded from 1996.

How many MBBS places are listed?

The NMC undergraduate table dated 18 September 2026 lists 250 annual MBBS places for AY 2026–27. This is intake, not a current counselling-vacancy count.

Does the catalogue contain 32 courses or 32 seats?

It contains 32 individual qualification-and-specialty entries: one MBBS, 19 MD, five MS, three DM and four M.Ch. Every entry has its own dated intake; 32 is not a seat total.

Which hospitals are attached to BMCRI?

The institutional profile names Victoria Hospital, Vani Vilas Women and Children’s Hospital, Minto Ophthalmic Hospital, the PMSSY super-speciality hospital and the Trauma and Emergency Care Centre.

Which counselling route applies to BMCRI MBBS?

BMCRI is a government college. Applicable Karnataka state seats use KEA and applicable All India quota seats use MCC. Applicants register for the route that covers their eligibility and allotted quota.

Is ₹75,300 the annual tuition alone?

No. The retained first-year general-category academic schedule has ₹55,000 tuition, ₹9,350 university-related charges and ₹10,950 other college charges, totalling ₹75,300.

Can the KEA ₹64,350 field be added to ₹75,300?

Not automatically. The KEA result field and college joining bill may overlap. Their payment scope and the applicable quota instructions determine reconciliation.

What does the ₹47,000 hostel calculation include?

It adds ₹16,500 room rent, ₹15,000 mess deposit, ₹15,000 caution deposit and a ₹500 admission fee, if all apply. Utilities and ongoing mess costs are not included; the two deposits each show ₹7,500 refundable.

Can a representative complete MBBS reporting?

The retained 2026–27 admission manual requires the candidate’s personal presence. Verification, authorised payment and collection of the admission letter are separate joining steps.

Does this overview quote a guaranteed salary or placement rate?

No. Internship, postgraduate training and later employment are different pathways. No verified college-wide salary or placement series is supplied by the material used here.

Are the cutoff values marks?

The MCC 2026 observations use NEET All India Rank. The separately labelled KEA tables have their own headings and category scope; neither should be presented as an invented marks conversion.

Does an enquiry apply to the college?

The MedCollege form requests guidance. It does not replace examination registration, counselling choices, a college application requirement or institutional admission reporting.

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Design updated 26 October 2026. Institutional descriptions retain their earlier review scope; the academic intake tables and fee schedules keep their stated year. Counselling extracts are inherited from the installed profile. Intake is not a live vacancy count and an enquiry does not reserve a seat.

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