Fees
MBBS first-year fees · 2026–27
This is the college’s first-year schedule, not a full-course or hostel estimate. The sheet exempts SC/ST/PwD from tuition and PwD from the special fee. Apply only the exemption accepted for your admission; do not pay a charge twice.
| Component | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tuition | ₹6,000 |
| Special fee including medical examination | ₹2,000 |
| Caution deposit | ₹1,000 |
| Library | ₹1,000 |
| University | ₹7,473 |
| Group insurance | ₹300 |
| Red Cross | ₹100 |
| Flag Day | ₹100 |
| Miscellaneous | ₹100 |
| Listed total | ₹18,073 |
MD/MS joining fees · 2025–26 reference
The institution lists ₹75,640 for first year. This is an older academic-year reference, not a verified 2026–27 bill. The notice marks tuition as nil for SC/ST.
| Component | Published amount |
|---|---|
| Tuition | ₹40,000 |
| Special fee | ₹10,000 |
| Medical fitness | ₹1,000 |
| Caution deposit | ₹2,000 |
| Library | ₹1,000 |
| University registration + ALS/BLS | ₹19,470 |
| Red Cross | ₹1,000 |
| Medical Education Unit | ₹70 |
| NSS | ₹100 |
| Skill lab | ₹1,000 |
| Total | ₹75,640 |
DM/MCh joining fees · 2025–26 reference
The superspecialty sheet totals ₹82,936. Its first page is a payment form; the second page provides the four components. This is not a verified fee schedule for 2026–27.
| Component | Published amount |
|---|---|
| Tuition | ₹50,000 |
| Special fee | ₹10,000 |
| University registration | ₹19,396 |
| ALS/BLS training | ₹3,540 |
| Total | ₹82,936 |
Hostel, mess and payment planning
The hostel tab below explains the ₹35,000 historical charge sheet and its academic-year mismatch. Monthly mess bills and current PG hostel charges are not established here. Request a current written bill and account details from the college cashier before payment. Bank numbers have not been republished. Keep receipts for reconciliation at reporting.
Build a cost sheet that matches your programme
Use separate lines for tuition, university or registration charges, one-time deposits, examination payments, accommodation, mess and personal expenses. An amount collected at joining is not automatically an annual tuition fee, and an annual fee is not the price of the whole course. Category concessions apply only when their conditions and documents are accepted. Keep any payment already made through counselling in the reconciliation so that the same head is not counted twice. A hostel deposit may be refundable under its own conditions; mess consumption and personal expenses should not be presented as fixed academic charges.
Evidence context: existing college material reviewed 23 September 2026. Added institutional context reviewed 15 October 2026. Individual tables retain their own source years; no new historical series is implied.
Understanding the qualification and evidence
Read the government MBBS amount in its original context
The 2026–27 Tamil Nadu government-MBBS schedule lists tuition of ₹6,000 and a published total of ₹18,073 across the stated heads. The heads include special, library and university charges, a caution deposit and smaller specified contributions. Accommodation, meals and personal travel need separate entries. A family comparing written demands can retain the printed head names and amounts rather than combine them into a single unexplained number. The fee period and any subsequent joining notice should stay with the figure.
Category-linked payment figures are a separate table
The same prospectus's online-payment table distinguishes ₹18,073 for OC, BC, BCM and MBC government-MBBS candidates from ₹12,073 for SC, SCA and ST candidates. It also gives a separate ₹10,073 government MBBS/BDS entry for persons with benchmark disabilities under the stated provision. These are the document's category-labelled payment references, not a personal eligibility decision for a reader. They should not be combined into a claim that every student pays the same net amount. The online table and the detailed fee-head table also use different headings, so the reader should retain the document context instead of assuming that each reference describes tuition alone. Any applicable certificate and the candidate's authorised allotment remain part of establishing the correct payment for the individual case.
Joining cash and eventual cost answer different questions
A refundable caution deposit affects the money needed at joining even though it is conceptually different from a charge paid for teaching or a service. Likewise, a reimbursement that may be considered later does not necessarily reduce the amount immediately due. Keeping these stages apart helps avoid a cash-flow gap created by subtracting an uncertain benefit too early. This page does not supply an invented refund date or presume that a concession applies. It provides a way to place the published charge and any later authenticated demand into a clear account of what must be paid, when and to whom.
Keep financial records separate
A course-specific fee enquiry should identify the exact training title, award, academic session and collecting institution. The amount attached to a medical-degree allotment cannot establish the price of a shorter technical route. This matters for families comparing several healthcare qualifications at the same campus: the institution name may be the same while the admission rules and payment arrangements differ. The training counts remain labelled as undated documentary references.
Hostel, food and transport belong to a different cost sheet
Unverified residential expenses should therefore be written as separate unresolved budget items rather than added as a fabricated annual package. If a residence quotation becomes available, its period matters: a monthly mess payment, a room deposit and an academic-year accommodation charge are different commitments. The route between accommodation, academic areas and the hospital also affects practical spending. A lower quoted rent may not produce a lower overall residential cost when additional travel is involved, but no local rent or commuting fare is assumed here. A complete family calculation uses their own verified residential arrangement and keeps the medical-college charge distinct from the living costs attached to that arrangement.
Compare government-college schedules without overlooking seat type
A common government-MBBS fee schedule does not make the colleges’ seat allocations identical. A fee comparison must therefore follow the applicant's actual institution, course, category and allotment route. These distinctions keep financial research connected to the correct college identity. The purpose is a fair comparison of documented options, not a claim that a low published academic charge determines hostel availability, teaching quality or the full cost of completing the qualification.
A worked comparison of the printed payment rows
The difference between the prospectus’s ₹18,073 and ₹12,073 government-MBBS payment references is ₹6,000. That arithmetic helps the reader see why category-labelled rows should not be collapsed into one universal amount. It does not determine an individual’s category, establish a scholarship payment or certify a joining bill. The detailed schedule and the online-payment table should retain their own headings and applicable conditions. A family can compare their authorised demand with the relevant printed reference and query a discrepancy through the proper process. They should not subtract the difference again from an amount that has already been calculated for the applicable category, or apply the same adjustment to an unrelated diploma or residential charge.
Related educational context
A payment period belongs beside every amount
A fee comparison becomes difficult when one document gives a yearly amount and another describes a whole programme. Before comparing the numbers, write down the period each covers. A shorter payment interval does not automatically mean a cheaper qualification, and a longer published academic duration does not prove how many identical fee payments will be collected. If an authorised later notice revises an amount, retain the earlier reference with its date and record which instruction governs the payment now being requested. This makes the comparison intelligible without inventing a total. It also helps a family distinguish a first payment, a recurring charge and a deposit whose treatment is stated separately.
Keep a receipt record for the correct purpose
An application acknowledgement, an allotment order and a fee receipt serve different purposes. One shows that an application step was completed, another identifies an offered seat and another records a payment. A student should not treat a receipt for one process as proof that every admission or reporting requirement has been completed. A practical record can identify the issuing authority, qualification, payment description, date and any reference supplied through the authorised process. It need not be published on a public profile or shared in an open comment. The purpose is to keep the applicant's own transactions understandable, particularly where several academic and administrative payments occur around the same period.
Separate planned spending from an institutional charge
Books, personal travel and an individual's residential arrangements can affect a household budget without becoming charges imposed by the medical college. A student can keep those planned expenses in a separate worksheet and update them when actual arrangements are known. This page does not assign local prices to make the worksheet look complete. It is more useful to label the expense, its likely payment period and whether a current quotation exists. That approach prevents a personal estimate from being repeated later as an official college fee. It also allows two families with different living arrangements to use the same academic reference without assuming that their overall study costs will be identical.
Compare qualifications before comparing prices
The price of a medical degree and the price of a technical-training award describe different educational commitments. Their duration, prior-study requirements and learning purposes need to be understood before any financial comparison is meaningful. A prospective MBBS student should not choose a laboratory or technician qualification on the assumption that a smaller fee buys the same professional pathway. Equally, a learner interested in a defined technical role need not treat MBBS as the only relevant healthcare qualification. The sensible comparison joins the exact award and its verified admission requirements to the applicable payment document. A missing amount for one route remains unresolved rather than being substituted with the charge attached to another course.