Admission to the School of Medicine Undergraduate Programs

  • School of Medicine selects meritorious and passionate students after successful completion of first semester fresh man course, based upon academic achievement and informed self-selection. Given the importance of having valid, defensible, comprehensive and fair student selection criteria, the Schools has developed a defensible guideline on the selection criteria.

The criteria include

  • Academic achievement (National entrance exam)
  • Student interest
  • Department Entrance exam result which is given after completion of 1st semester of freshman courses
  • diversity (sex, disability and geography) and
  • Absence of major mental and physical disabilities that could affect studying and practicing medicine. This is substantiated by expert’s opinion

Academic Year and Duration of Study

  • An academic year for medical students are forty-eight weeks to fifty weeks except for fresh man course and pre-medicine which are semester based.
  • All courses, except fresh man course and pre-medicine, are year-based.