India Expands Medical Education with Record Number of Seats

NEW DELHI — India has reached a milestone in its effort to strengthen medical education, offering 128,875 undergraduate seats for the MBBS degree and 80,291 postgraduate seats for the 2025-26 academic year, according to figures released by the Health Ministry this month. The expansion marks a sharp rise over the past decade. Undergraduate seats have grown from just over 51,000 in 2013-14 to the current total, an increase of more than 150 percent. Postgraduate capacity has followed a similar trajectory, helping to train more specialists in a country long challenged by shortages in healthcare. Officials credit the growth to a … Continue reading India Expands Medical Education with Record Number of Seats