Army Medical College (NUST School of Health Sciences)

Army Medical College (AMC) is a public medical college in Rawalpindi. The National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) conducts its MBBS and BDS admissions. ⁶⁷ Applicants sit the NUMS entry test before NUMS prepares the merit lists. The college site names Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi as its affiliated teaching hospital. ¹

The college dates to 1977. It opened as a residential college under Quaid-i-Azam University, and the college page records that founding year. ¹² NUMS lists the college as a constituent institution. ² The home page lists MBBS, BDS, MPhil, PhD and FCPS as the degrees of the college. ¹

Our record gives AMC 204 MBBS seats and 54 BDS seats. For session 2025/26 the college charges Rs. 1,210,000 per year on open merit, which totals Rs. 6,050,000 across the MBBS course. ⁴ The prior session charged Rs. 1,100,000 per year. ⁴

Clinical teaching runs at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Rawalpindi. ¹ Our record puts the teaching capacity at 2,200 beds across the Rawalpindi military hospital network. Our record also names Military Hospital, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in that network.

AMC opened in 1977 as a residential college under Quaid-i-Azam University. ¹² The college worked from the university setting in its early years, and its cadet system took shape then. ² The history page records that the MBBS degree ran through Quaid-i-Azam University in that period. ²

The first batch of 100 MBBS students graduated in 1981. ² The British General Medical Council recognised the degree in the same year. ² The BDS programme also started in 1981. ² That first batch therefore left the college with a recognised MBBS degree. ²

The college moved under NUST in 1998. ² It started postgraduate training in 2001 with MPhil, PhD and FCPS routes. ² Those routes opened research posts inside the college. The home page lists those three postgraduate degrees among its current awards. ¹

NUMS took the college as a constituent institution in 2016. ² NUMS now runs the entry test and the centralized merit lists for its colleges. ⁶⁷ The admission hub on the NUMS site carries the active MBBS and BDS cycles. ⁴⁷ The admission criteria page carries the NUMS weightage that applicants follow. ³ The entry test therefore gates every AMC seat from the NUMS era onward. ⁶

AMC admits two cadet categories. NUMS Cadets compete on the NUMS entry test, while Medical Cadets follow a separate Army recruitment route. ³ Both categories train inside the same college buildings.

CMH Rawalpindi anchors the clinical side. The hospital dates from 1859, and new outpatient, emergency and diagnostic buildings opened in 2013. ⁸ The combined CMH and Military Hospital capacity then reached 2,500 beds. ⁸ The complex handles about 6,000 patients per day. ⁸ The 2013 expansion therefore reshaped the clinical base for later batches. ⁸

The college groups its teaching into basic sciences, clinical sciences and dental sciences. ¹ Basic sciences cover anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, forensic medicine and community medicine. ¹ Clinical sciences cover surgery, medicine, ENT, ophthalmology, gynaecology and paediatrics. ¹

Our record gives the AMC MBBS open-merit closing aggregate at 85.55% for 2022 and 87% for 2023. It then rises to 93.8% for 2024 and 95.4% for 2025. The steepest move lands between 2023 and 2024.

BDS follows the same climb. Its closing aggregate reads 82% for 2022, 83.2% for 2023, 91.5% for 2024 and 93.8% for 2025. Both programmes clear 90% in the last two rows on our record. The BDS row therefore tracks the medical row across all four sessions.

AMC weights the NUMS entry test at 50%, FSc at 40% and SSC at 10%. ³ The test pass mark sits at 55% for MBBS and 45% for BDS. ³ The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across these years. Compare sessions with care, because the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row.

AMC names CMH Rawalpindi as its teaching hospital. ¹ Our record breaks the clinical capacity into 1,200 CMH beds and 1,000 Military Hospital beds. Our record also names the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in the network. The home page names CMH Rawalpindi as the affiliated teaching hospital of the college. ¹

Wikipedia gives CMH a 1,000-bed figure and dates the hospital to 1859. ⁸ Its 2013 expansion lifted combined CMH and Military Hospital capacity to 2,500 beds. ⁸ The hospital complex therefore sits above the capacity figure on our record. The expansion covered new outpatient, emergency and diagnostic buildings. ⁸

The complex handles about 6,000 patients per day. ⁸ AMC students train clinically inside these wards. ⁸ The load gives students exposure across medicine, surgery and emergency care during the clinical years. Students therefore meet a wide case mix from the first ward rotation.

Students meet patients under supervision across the specialty units. The military network adds pathology and cardiology institutes to the rotation list. ¹ The network therefore mixes ward work with institute postings during the clinical years.

The college sits on Abid Majeed Road in Rawalpindi. ¹ The site lists the campus phone as (051) 9270677 and the email as [email protected]. ¹ An admissions desk answers on (051) 5516755. ¹ The admissions desk and the campus phone both sit on the home page. ¹

AMC runs a residential system of eight hostels that match eight cadet companies. ⁵ Male cadets use the Ayub, Qasim, Razi, Luqman, Sina and Haythem hostels. Female cadets use the Ayesha and Fatima hostels. ⁵ The site lists a skill lab, a learning resource centre and a digital library on campus. ¹

Each hostel holds more than 100 rooms, and most rooms house two cadets. ⁵ A mess in each block serves 150 cadets. ⁵ The hostel page describes the blocks as the daily home of each company. The home page adds a cyber lab, a CREAM lab and an ethical review committee to the campus list. ¹

Sports facilities cover grounds plus squash, basketball, lawn tennis, table tennis and badminton courts. ⁵ The campus also lists a gymnasium and a snooker room. ⁵ The home page adds 24/7 internet, a gym and running tracks for cadets. ¹

Our record marks the programmes as PMDC recognised and CPSP accredited. It also lists them in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools and marks them ECFMG eligible.

The British General Medical Council recognised the AMC MBBS degree in 1981. ² The college works as a NUMS constituent institution, and NUMS runs its entry test and merit lists. ²⁶⁷ The home page lists PMDC, HEC, CPSP, NUMS and WHO among the accreditations it carries. ¹

Our record marks the college recognition status as active for the session. The degrees on the home page cover MBBS, BDS, MPhil, PhD and FCPS. ¹ The NUMS MDCAT notice for session 2026-27 lists the college among the institutions it admits. ⁶

AMC is a residential college. Cadets live in eight hostel blocks named after military and medical figures, and each block forms one cadet company. ⁵ The company structure organises daily life, dining and sports. Cadet Affairs and the cafeteria support the residential routine. ²

Daily life follows the cadet routine: shared rooms, company messes and college grounds. ⁵ Sports run from team fields to squash and snooker. ⁵ The gymnasium carries training into the evening hours. ⁵ The home page adds a student support cell to the campus services. ¹

Students train inside an active military hospital complex. ⁸ The college hosts both NUMS Cadets and Medical Cadets under one system. ³ The two routes mix in lectures before the clinical years. The home page lists seven student societies for the cadets. ¹ The college runs AHA life support courses for graduates. ¹ House job selection for MBBS graduates ran for the January 2026 session. ¹