With National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2022 results set to be announced soon, students must gear up for the next step. While students are allocated seats in medical colleges as per their NEET ranks and choice of colleges, it is also important to know the top medical colleges in the country. While medical college admissions in India are done only via NEET, colleges abroad have different processes.
As over 18 lakh students await their NEET 2022 results, let’s take a look at the top medical colleges in the country and abroad. While the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranks the medical colleges only in India, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (QS) rank colleges and universities worldwide.
Let’s take a look at top medical colleges in India and across the world:
NIRF 2022 – TOP 25 MEDICAL COLLEGES IN INDIA
- Rank 1: AIIMS Delhi
- Rank 2: PGMIER, Chandigarh
- Rank 3: Christian Medical College, Vellore
- Rank 4: National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bangalore
- Rank 5: BHU
- Rank 6: Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research
- Rank 7: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
- Rank 8: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- Rank 9: Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
- Rank 10: Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
- Rank 11: King George`s Medical University
- Rank 12: Madras Medical College & Government General Hospital, Chennai
- Rank 13: Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
- Rank 14: St John’s Medical College
- Rank 15: Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
- Rank 16: AIIMS Jodhpur
- Rank 17: Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth
- Rank 18: Siksha `O` Anusandhan
- Rank 19: Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital
- Rank 20: SRM IST
- Rank 21: Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research
- Rank 22: AMU
- Rank 23: Maulana Azad Medical College
- Rank 24: Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences
- Rank 25: Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2022: MEDICINE
As per the latest QS ranking, the best medical institute in India is AIIMS with a rank between 151-200, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Delhi University (301-350), PGMIER (351-400) and BHU (451-500). Know the top 10 medicine colleges worldwide-
- Rank 1- Harvard University
- Rank 2- Oxford University
- Rank 3- Stanford University
- Rank 4- Cambridge University
- Rank 5- Josh Hopkins University
- Rank 6- California University
- Rank 7- UCL
- Rank 8- Imperial College London
- Rank 9- Yale University
- Rank 10- Toronto University
THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2022 : CLINICAL AND HEALTH
JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research is the only Indian institute to have made it to the top 100 medical colleges as per THE WUR. It has been placed at rank 93. Among the other universities that made it to the list are BHU (251- 300), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (301-400), Delhi University (301-400), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Panjab University, Saveetha University, all ranked between 401-500.
The top 10 medical institutes as THE are-
- Rank 1 – Oxford University
- Rank 2 – Harvard University
- Rank 4 – Cambridge University
- Rank 4 – Imperial College London
- Rank 5 – Toronto University
- Rank 6 – Stanford University
- Rank 7 – Tsinghua University
- Rank 8 – UCL
- Rank 9 – Josh Hopkins University
- Rank 9 – Yale University
- Rank 10 – Central America Health Science University
Meanwhile, to pass NEET 2022, students have to obtain a minimum of 50 percentile. This is for general category candidates. For SC and ST, it is 40 percentile and for PwD, 45 percentile. The cut-off is expected to increase this year, as per experts. Last year, the 50 percentile score for the unreserved category was over 138 marks, in 2020, it was 147, and in 2019, it was 134.