AJK Medical College

AJK Medical College (AJKMC) is a public medical college in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The college offers a five-year MBBS course. The Joint Admission Committee (JAC) of the Azad Government runs its admissions. ⁵⁷ The fact sheet records 110 MBBS seats and a first-year fee of Rs. 18,000.

The campus lies at Ambore, on the edge of Muzaffarabad. The college site states that it is affiliated with UHS Lahore. ¹⁴ The PMDC register lists it among the public medical colleges of AJK. ⁸ The principal, Prof. Dr. Adnan Mehraj, chairs the JAC. ⁷

Students take clinical rotations at Combined Military Hospital Muzaffarabad and Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences. ¹¹ The fact sheet records 850 clinical beds across those two teaching hospitals. The college also invites house-job applications at Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Hospital (CMH Muzaffarabad). ¹ The directory status for the college is active.

The fact sheet records the college as public sector. It also records a five-year MBBS duration. The college is one of the three public AJK colleges that the JAC admits students to. ⁷

The idea of a medical college for Azad Jammu and Kashmir arose after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. That disaster exposed a shortage of medical professionals in the hospitals of the state. ¹¹

The fact sheet records the establishment year as 2012. The public record gives another date. Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani inaugurated the college on 8 October 2011. ¹¹ Press reports from that period also use a different name, Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq Medical College. ¹¹

The college sits at Ambore, in a new campus complex. Its own site lists the address as AJK Medical College, Ambore, 13100, Muzaffarabad. ¹³ The site refers to interviews and events at the AJKMC New Campus. ¹ The contact page lists the campus telephone and email address. ³

The JAC formed around the college. Its members are the principals of the three public AJK medical colleges. ⁷ The committee also includes the Additional Secretaries of Health and Higher Education and a focal person. ⁷ The JAC secretariat works from AJKMC, Amboor Muzaffarabad, on phone 05822-921472. ⁷

In January 2025 the governing body of the three public AJK colleges met under Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq. It sanctioned the affiliation of the 100-bed DHQ Hospital in Hattian Bala with AJKMC as a teaching facility. ¹⁰ The same meeting approved two nursing and midwifery colleges that work under the AJKMC and PMC umbrellas. ¹⁰ The meeting also reviewed academic reforms for the three public colleges. ¹⁰

The college states its affiliation with UHS Lahore on its own site. ¹ The AJK government admissions page states the same affiliation. ⁴ Wikipedia also lists affiliations with the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Combined Military Hospital Muzaffarabad. ¹¹ The admissions page repeats the affiliation line for applicants. ⁴

The site publishes Programme Learning Outcomes for the MBBS course. It organises the college into basic sciences and clinical sciences departments. The site also carries notices, downloads, a gallery and job postings. ¹² Admission notices appear there each session, such as the profile registration form for session 2025-26. ¹ The home page carries news and updates for the session. ¹

AJKMC MBBS open-merit closing aggregates rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 80.95% in 2022 to 82.30% in 2023. It then moved to 87.40% in 2024 and 90.60% in 2025. The 2025 figure is the highest row in this chart.

The JAC sets the aggregate with three components: 10% Matric, 40% FSc and 50% MDCAT. ⁶ Merit is fixed to four decimals. The older candidate breaks an exact tie. ⁶ The JAC applies the same formula to every category of application. ⁶ The fact sheet states that roughly half the seats at each AJK public medical college are reserved for AJK-domiciled candidates.

Read each row as the closing aggregate for that session. Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent years. The same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row.

Clinical rotations happen at Combined Military Hospital Muzaffarabad and Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences. ¹¹ The fact sheet records 450 beds at CMH Muzaffarabad. It also records 400 beds at the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences. The fact sheet treats those two hospitals as the clinical base of the course.

The fact sheet names the attached hospital as AJK Teaching Hospital, Muzaffarabad. It records 850 clinical beds in total. The fact sheet describes trauma, medical and surgical training across those hospitals.

House-job applications run through Student Affairs. ¹ The college invites applications for house jobs at Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Hospital (CMH Muzaffarabad). ¹ Interviews run at the AJKMC New Campus in Ambore. ¹ The house-job notice appears on the home page of the site. ¹

The governing body reviewed bed capacity in January 2025. It recorded that AJKMC already met the PMDC teaching-hospital bed requirement. ¹⁰ The two Muzaffarabad teaching hospitals gave a combined capacity of 650 beds at that review. ¹⁰ The affiliation of the 100-bed DHQ Hospital in Hattian Bala then added a third teaching facility. ¹⁰

The campus stands at Ambore, listed as AJK Medical College, Ambore, 13100, Muzaffarabad. ³ The site refers to interviews and events at the AJKMC New Campus, Ambore. ¹ The contact page also lists the campus telephone and email address. ³

Campus facilities recorded in our dataset include the CMH Muzaffarabad teaching complex and the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences. The list also includes a digital library, hostels on campus and an auditorium.

The site organises the college into basic sciences and clinical sciences departments. ² It also carries a governing body page, notices, downloads, a gallery and job postings. ¹ The About page holds the principal’s message and the mission statement. ²

The fact sheet records hostels on campus for male and female students. Student Affairs handles the house-job application process from the campus. ¹ The fact sheet also records a digital library and an auditorium. The fact sheet does not list the college as women-only.

Wikipedia records that the college is recognised by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. ¹¹ It also lists recognition by the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan and the International Medical Education Directory. ¹¹ PMDC is the national regulator for medical colleges in Pakistan. The PMDC public register lists AJK Medical College with a seat allocation of 100. ⁸

The fact sheet records four accreditations: PMDC recognition, a WHO World Directory of Medical Schools listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The directory status for the college is active. The fact sheet marks the affiliation as UHS Lahore.

The fact sheet records hostels on campus, so most students live a short walk from their lectures. The campus sits on the edge of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The college site carries a news and updates section, a notices board and a gallery. ¹ These pages carry session notices such as the profile registration form for session 2025-26. ¹ The gallery records campus events for students. ¹ The gallery page holds pictures from college events. ¹

Student Affairs is the daily contact point for students. It receives house-job applications and runs the interviews on campus. ¹ The JAC publishes category-wise merit lists during the admission season. ¹² The house-job notice appears in the same updates section. ¹ The fact sheet does not list the college as women-only.