Karakoram International University Faculty of Medicine

Karakoram International University (KIU) is the public university of Gilgit-Baltistan. Its main campus sits on University Road in Gilgit. ¹⁶ KIU teaches through four faculties and runs sub-campuses at Hunza, Ghizer and Diamer. ¹

This directory lists an entity named Karakoram International University Faculty of Medicine. It keeps the record so that old links and searches still reach it. The record carries the recognition status Closed.

No medicine faculty exists at that name. KIU lists Arts and Humanities, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Technology, and Social Sciences. ¹ Its admissions portal shows engineering and education offers and no MBBS entry. ² PMDC lists no medical college in Gilgit-Baltistan. ³ Students from the region get MBBS and BDS seats through nominations run by the Directorate of Education (Colleges) GB. ⁴

Karakoram International University started in 2002 under a charter from the Federal Government. ⁶ KIU opened its Skardu campus in July 2011, and that campus became the University of Baltistan in 2017. ⁶ Hunza held classes from 2016, and Ghizer and Diamer followed in 2018. ⁶

No source shows a Faculty of Medicine at KIU. The KIU site and its admissions portal carry no medicine programme. ¹² The directory record carries no establishment year, because no source supports one for a medicine programme that never ran.

This entity has no merit chart. No MBBS or BDS seat exists at KIU, so no closing aggregate exists for it either. ¹²³ Our fact sheet carries four merit figures for this entity. The programme those figures describe does not exist, so this page does not show them.

Gilgit-Baltistan students read merit for the colleges where they study after nomination. ⁵ The national aggregate counts 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ⁸ DOEC GB publishes the seat distribution by open merit, district quota and admitting university. ⁵ The district quota covers ten Gilgit-Baltistan districts and a disabled category. ⁵ SZABMU also opens its own open merit to every Pakistani citizen, including Gilgit-Baltistan. ¹¹

This entity has no attached teaching hospital. No medicine programme runs at KIU, and PMDC lists no medical college in Gilgit-Baltistan. ¹²³

Our fact sheet links a 450-bed DHQ Teaching Hospital Gilgit to this entity. No register we read supports that link. ³ Nominated students study and train at the college allotted to them outside Gilgit-Baltistan. ⁵

KIU teaches at a main campus in Gilgit and at three sub-campuses. The sub-campuses sit at Hunza, Ghizer and Diamer. ¹⁶ The KIU about page also names a Women Campus. ⁶

The KIU home page links a university library and a KIU Sports Complex. ¹ It states that hostel accommodation is available for male and female applicants. ¹ Our directory record lists the KIU Central University Library and student hostels.

PMDC publishes a register of public medical colleges. It lists colleges under AJK, Balochistan, KPK, Punjab and Sindh. ³ No college appears under a Gilgit-Baltistan heading. ³ We read that register on 7 October 2026. ³

The directory record for this entity therefore carries the recognition status Closed. Our fact sheet lists PMDC, WHO, ECFMG and CPSP accreditations for it. No register we read carries those accreditations for a Gilgit-Baltistan college. ³

No student life exists for a medicine programme at KIU, because the programme does not run. ¹² KIU runs its four faculties across the Gilgit, Hunza, Ghizer and Diamer campuses. ¹⁶

Hostel accommodation is available for male and female applicants. ¹ The KIU home page also lists a KIU Sports Complex in its quick links. ¹ Students from Gilgit-Baltistan who get medical nominations study at colleges in other provinces. ⁵