Ayub Medical College

Ayub Medical College (AMC) is a public medical college in Abbottabad. Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, is the admitting authority. ³ Applicants register on the KMU central portal and list AMC among their preferences. ⁴ PMDC conducts the MDCAT that every applicant must pass. ³

The college started its first academic year on 15 May 1979 with 100 students. ¹ It runs a five-year MBBS programme with 270 seats. ³ The college site also lists a course of study in BDS. ² PMDC lists AMC among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷

MTI Ayub Teaching Hospital is the attached hospital. PMDC lists it as the own hospital of the college. ⁸ The hospital serves patients across Hazara Division, Gilgit-Baltistan and northern Azad Kashmir. PMDC names Ayub Teaching Hospital in its 2025 attachment list. ⁸

The campus holds a central auditorium, a digital learning centre and student hostels. A digital library, a computer lab and a students resource centre sit on the same campus. ² Our record marks the MBBS programme as active and lists CPSP accreditation. The college site posts the current admission notices. ²

The government established Ayub Medical College in August 1978. ¹ The first academic year began on 15 May 1979 with an enrolment of 100 students. ¹ The college takes its name from former President Field Marshal Ayub Khan. PMDC lists the college among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷

The first batch of medical graduates passed out in 1984. ¹ The college moved to the Karakoram Highway site on Mansehra Road on 30 December 1990. ¹ A provisional building housed the college before the move. ¹ The college still runs from the Mansehra Road site. ¹ The new site sits on the Karakoram Highway route. ¹

DHQ Hospital in Abbottabad served as the teaching affiliate for 18 years. ¹ The Pakistan Medical Research Council opened a research centre at the college in 1981. ¹ The council ran the centre until early 2002. ¹ Our record marks the MBBS programme as active. The hospital then took over the teaching role from DHQ Hospital.

A dental class of 24 students joined in 1999. ¹ The University of Peshawar and then Hazara University took the early affiliations. ¹ Khyber Medical University is the current affiliating university. ¹ KMU now prepares the merit list for the college. ³

The Journal of Ayub Medical College started in January 1988 and still appears. ¹ About 6,626 doctors graduated from the college by the 2018 session. ¹ A central air-conditioned library and a computer network library with 20 workstations support study. ¹ The library and the journal support the academic work on campus. ¹

The campus provides lecture halls, laboratories and museums for students. ¹ The Dean and CEO of the college also leads the medical teaching institution. ² The office publishes notices for quota seats, merit lists and scholarships on the college site. ² PMDC names Ayub Teaching Hospital as the own hospital of the college. ⁸

The college sits on Mansehra Road in Abbottabad. ² Abbottabad is a hill city in Hazara Division. The college marks forty years of operation on its history page. ¹ The college site posts the current admission notices. ²

AMC open-merit aggregates rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 84.85% in 2022 to 86.10% in 2023. It then reached 89.80% in 2024 and 94.19% in 2025. The rise runs across four sessions without a break.

The 2025 self-finance line closed at 92.94%. It sits 1.25 points below the open-merit figure for the same year. The gap shows self-finance candidates who sat just under the open-merit line. KMU sets 31 December as the last date for open-merit MBBS admission. ³

KMU sets the aggregate with three components: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ³ The 2025-26 open-merit list shows MDCAT marks out of 180. ⁵ KMU breaks a tie on age, then matric marks, then entry-test marks. ³ Read older rows with care. The MDCAT scale changed from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across years. One percentage therefore does not equal one raw score in every row.

MTI Ayub Teaching Hospital is the main clinical site for AMC students. PMDC lists it as the own teaching hospital of the college. ⁸ The record gives the hospital 1,200 beds. It serves Hazara Division, Gilgit-Baltistan and northern Azad Kashmir. The hospital sits in Abbottabad and works as the chief teaching hospital of AMC. ⁹

The hospital carries the general clinical disciplines of medicine and surgery with their subspecialties. ¹ It also runs gynaecology and obstetrics, ophthalmology, ENT, radiology, oncology and critical care units. ¹ Pathology laboratories work inside the same complex. ¹ The site lists these disciplines under the hospital departments. ¹

DHQ Hospital in Abbottabad served as the teaching affiliate for 18 years. ¹ Ayub Teaching Hospital then took over that role. ¹ Our record lists 1,200 beds for the hospital. Students rotate through wards, specialty units and the emergency department.

The hospital ward list covers medicine, surgery, obstetrics, paediatrics, cardiology, nephrology, neurosurgery and oncology. ⁹ Wikipedia describes the hospital as the chief teaching hospital of AMC. ⁹ PMDC names the hospital as the own hospital of the college. ⁸ Students rotate through these wards during the clinical years.

The campus sits on Mansehra Road in Abbottabad, on the Karakoram Highway route. ¹² The college moved to this site on 30 December 1990. ¹ Abbottabad is a hill city in Hazara Division. The college marks forty years of operation on its history page. ¹

Our dataset records the pine-clad Abbottabad campus, Ayub Teaching Hospital, a central auditorium, a digital learning centre and extensive student hostels. The campus also holds the central auditorium named in our record. Our record marks the MBBS programme as active with CPSP accreditation.

The campus holds lecture halls, laboratories and museums. ¹ A centrally air-conditioned library holds textbooks, journals, Medline material and an audiovisual section. ¹ A computer network library with 20 workstations serves students. ¹ Students use the computer network library beside the main library. ¹

The site lists digital library resources, a new computer lab and a students resource centre. ² The students resource centre handles student services on campus. ² Hostels house resident students on the campus. The students resource centre sits beside the new computer lab. ²

PMDC recognises the MBBS programme at AMC. ⁷ The college appears on the PMDC list of public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷ Our record marks the programme as active. KMU admits students to AMC through its central portal. ⁴ The KMU portal carries the college merit lists. ⁶

The site records recognition by the General Medical Council of the UK, the General Medical Council of Ireland and the WHO. ¹ The degree qualifies graduates for ECFMG certification. CPSP accredits the college for postgraduate training. Our record lists CPSP accreditation for postgraduate training. PMDC conducts the national MDCAT that AMC applicants must pass. ³

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recognises the obstetrics and gynaecology department for MRCOG candidates. ¹

AMC sits in Abbottabad, a hill city in Hazara Division. ² The campus sits on Mansehra Road in Abbottabad. ² The city sits on the Karakoram Highway route north of Islamabad. The campus holds student hostels, a central auditorium and a digital learning centre. The college moved to this site in 1990. ¹

Student life covers the hostels, the library and the societies on campus. ¹ A students resource centre and a new computer lab serve the student body. ² The college publishes student achievement notices on its home page. ² The home page posts those notices through the session. ²

Abbottabad gives students access to markets, parks and city services. The hospital campus and the college campus sit close together. ¹ Resident students live inside the hostel blocks. They use the hostels, the library and the auditorium. The hostels sit inside the college campus on Mansehra Road. ¹