Bacha Khan Medical College

Bacha Khan Medical College is a public medical college in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ³. It is named after Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, described as a peaceful freedom leader ⁵. Khyber Medical University in Peshawar runs its admissions ¹². The campus sits on Double Road in Sheikh Maltoon Town in Mardan ⁴.

Our dataset records 100 MBBS seats and a first-year fee of PKR 22,000. The KMU 2025-26 seat table gives the same 100 total, with 60 seats on open merit ¹. The college prospectus also gives an admitting capacity of 100 MBBS students ⁵.

Mardan Medical Complex is the attached teaching hospital ⁵. Our dataset records 650 beds there. The college prospectus records 730 beds and the hospital site records 800 ⁵⁶.

The college works as a Medical Teaching Institution under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MTI Act ⁵. It now runs four teaching institutions in Mardan ⁵. The PMDC public register lists the college among the public medical colleges of the province ³.

The college was inaugurated on 1 January 2010 ⁷. It takes its name from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, described in the prospectus as a peaceful freedom leader ⁵. Our dataset records 2010 as the founding year.

The campus covers about 500 kanals in Mardan ⁷. The site lies about five minutes from the Rashakai interchange on the M1 motorway ⁵.

Khyber Medical University granted affiliation to the college in 2010 ⁷. The PMDC recognised the MBBS programme in the first session of the college ⁷. The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan granted accreditation in 2011 ⁷.

The college started as an MBBS college only ⁷. Bacha Khan Dental College began as a dental section in the session 2011-12 ⁵⁷. The Board of Governors upgraded it to a full dental college after the MTI Act ⁵.

Under the MTI framework the college now works with three sister institutions ⁵. They are Bacha Khan Dental College, the College of Nursing Mardan and the College of Medical Technologies ⁵.

The Emergency and Outpatient Department started work in 2018 ⁵. Sixteen MBBS batches and thirteen BDS batches completed the programme at the college ⁵.

The Mardan Medical Complex site states that the hospital started in 1997-98 with 400 beds ⁶. It now records 800 beds at the facility ⁶. Our dataset records 650 and the prospectus records 730 ⁵.

The college website names Prof. Dr. Jawad Ahmad as the Dean ⁴. The website also lists a basic science department set and a clinical department set ⁴. A research society and a literary society operate on the campus ⁴.

The college publishes its own journal on the campus ⁴. The Medical Education Department appears on the prospectus campus list ⁵. The prospectus also lists a Self-Learning Resource Center and an e-library ⁵.

The college offers the five-year MBBS programme and admits students through KMU ¹⁵. Admission follows the single KMU policy for all public colleges in the province ¹.

Our dataset records five merit entries for this college. The open-merit aggregate moved from 79.85% in 2022 to 81.2% in 2023, then to 87.5% in 2024 and 93.81% in 2025. The 2025 self-finance aggregate closed at 93.01%.

KMU builds the aggregate from three parts. MDCAT carries 50%, HSSC carries 40% and SSC carries 10% ¹². The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent sessions ⁸. One percentage point therefore does not mean one raw mark in every row.

The 2025-26 policy works its example with MDCAT out of 200. It sets passing marks of 120 for MBBS and 110 for BDS ¹. The same policy asks for 60% in HSSC and 55% in MDCAT for MBBS ¹.

KMU runs at least three consecutive merit lists for each session ¹. Vacant seats from the first list move into the second list ¹.

Mardan Medical Complex is the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁵. Our dataset records 650 beds. The college prospectus records 730 beds. The hospital site records 800 ⁵⁶.

The hospital site states that the complex started in 1997-98 with 400 beds ⁶. It now records 800 beds at the facility ⁶. Our dataset records 650 and the prospectus records 730 ⁵.

The Emergency and Outpatient Department started work in 2018 ⁵. The prospectus places the hospital five minutes from the Rashakai M1 interchange ⁵. The college and the hospital work as one teaching unit under the MTI Act ⁴⁵.

Our dataset lists Mardan Medical Complex wards among the campus facilities. It also records clinical rotations across surgery, nephrology and maternal and child health. The prospectus reports a separate 200-bedded Benazir Bhutto Children Hospital near completion ⁵.

The college website lists its clinical department set on the site ⁴. Those departments work with the Mardan Medical Complex for student training ⁴⁵. The website also lists the basic science departments that students attend in the first years ⁴.

Our dataset records five campus facilities. They are the Mardan Medical Complex wards, a modern academic block, an anatomy dissection hall, student hostels and a digital library.

The campus sits on Double Road in Sheikh Maltoon Town in Mardan, with the postal code 23200 ⁴. The site lies about five minutes from the Rashakai M1 interchange ⁵.

The prospectus lists a library and an e-library for the students ⁵. It also lists a Self-Learning Resource Center and a Medical Education Department ⁵. Separate hostels for men and women stand on the campus ⁵.

The college website keeps an auditorium on its facilities list ⁴. It lists a research society and a literary society for student activity ⁴. The medical college and the dental college sit in one teaching group ⁵.

The campus covers about 500 kanals in Mardan ⁷. It holds the academic blocks, the hostels and the hospital wards in one area ⁴⁵.

Our dataset records PMDC recognition, a WHO World Directory listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation for the college. The PMDC public register lists the college with 150 seats, while our dataset and the KMU seat table record 100 ¹³.

KMU works as the admitting university and publishes the seat distribution for each session ¹². The 2025-26 table splits the 100 seats across open merit, self-finance, merged districts and an Afghan seat ¹.

Our dataset marks the college as active and affiliated with KMU Peshawar. The prospectus states an admitting capacity of 100 MBBS and 50 BDS students ⁵.

The 2025-26 policy states that no public college may admit beyond the seats allocated by the PMDC ¹.

Our dataset marks the college as open to men and women and records student hostels on campus. The prospectus lists separate hostels for men and for women ⁵.

The prospectus lists four student societies. They are the Literary Society, the Sports Society, the Social Welfare Society and the Hiking Club ⁵.

The college website lists a research society and a literary society for student activity ⁴. It keeps an auditorium for college events ⁴. The prospectus lists a library and an e-library for study ⁵. The college runs a journal that carries work from its staff and students ⁴.

Mardan Medical Complex shares the campus with the college ⁴⁵. Students walk between the academic blocks and the hospital wards for their training ⁴⁵. The dental college sits in the same teaching group ⁵.