Medicine

Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research consistently ranked as the top MBBS colleges in Kolkata.

Listed below are some colleges along with their NIRF rankings 2025:

Source: Official site and may vary.

There are about 10+ best Medical colleges in Kolkata that offer MBBS courses. Among them, 9 colleges are government colleges, 4 are private colleges and 1 is owned by semi government. NEET is the popular entrance exam for admission to best Medical college in Kolkata. 

Kolkata MBBS colleges include Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Medical College, KPC Medical College and Hospital, R.G.Kar Medical College and Hospital and ESI-PGIMSR Medical College and Hospital.

Yes, the students are required to clear NEET with qualifying marks in order to be eligible to get ana admission at this university. Other than this requirement, the students are required to meet the below mentioned eligibilities for MBBS: 

• 12^th class with 50% marks minimum in Physics, Chemistry, and Math
•  IELTS
• Certificate of good moral character

For securing seats in Government college good NEET scores are required. Cut off in NEET for many college ranges from 400 to 500 marks. If any student scores well in NEET with 76 percent marks in class 12th, he can get seat in government college but if they have scored less in NEET below cutoff then chances are very less.

The NEET 2025 counselling process began on July 21, 2025. The dates for four rounds were announced by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) in the notification. The NEET UG Counselling ended on January 10, 2026. Originally, the last date of counselling was October 3, 2025, which was postponed due to candidate requests, ongoing court cases and vacanct seats.  

To be eligible in local state quota in 2024 NEET, you must pass the following criteria:

1. Be a resident of the state where you want to study.
2. Have proof of residency.
3. Have completed or be pursuing 12th grade from the same state.

Bharati Vidyapeeth Cutoff 2024 is out for UG courses such as BDS and MBBS in the form of opening and closing ranks. Based on valid NEET scores, admissions were conducted at Bharati Vidyapeeth. The closing rank for NEET UG courses ranged between 127612 and 359777 for the students belonging to the General All India Quota as per the Bharati Vidyapeeth cutoff 2024. Check out the table below for more information:

NBE may or may not reduce the cut off for NEET PG 2025 depending on the number of vacant seats. Last year, NBE had reduced cut of twice. In the last round , NEET PG cut off was reduced to 5 percentile. It must be noted, cut off is reduced to fill vacant seats. After reduction of cut off, MCC releases fresh schedule for counselling rounds. NEET PG 2025 exam is scheduled to be held on June 15, 2025.

GMC Ernakulum cutoff ranks were released for admission to MBBS. For the General AI category candidates, the last round closing rank was 8928. Therefore admission at 5000 rank is possible, among the General AI category. For the OBC AI quota, GMC Ernakulum MBBS cutoff was closed at 10906. Therefore, for the OBC AI quota candiates alos, admission at 5000 rank is possible. For other categories also, admission at 5000 rank is possible.