Bannu Medical College

Bannu Medical College (BMC) is a public medical college in Bannu, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, is the admitting authority. ³ Applicants register on the KMU central portal and list BMC among their preferences. ⁴ PMDC conducts the MDCAT that every applicant must pass. ³ PMDC lists the college among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷ The college site records PMC recognition for MBBS and BDS. ²

The college opened in December 2006. ¹ The government of KP established it in August 2006. ¹ It runs a five-year MBBS programme with 110 seats. ³ The college serves the southern districts and the merged tribal areas.

Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital carries the clinical programme. PMDC lists it as an own hospital of the college. ⁸ PMDC also lists DHQ Teaching Hospital, Bannu, as an own hospital. ⁸ Our record marks the MBBS programme as active. PMDC names both hospitals in its 2025 attachment list. ⁸

Our dataset records a 600-bed teaching hospital, an academic campus, an anatomy museum, student hostels and a central library. The permanent campus sits in Bannu Township. ² The college site carries the campus address. ² The permanent campus opened in March 2021 after construction that began in 2013. ¹

Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani established Bannu Medical College in August 2006. ¹ The college opened its first session in December 2006. ¹ It was created to serve students from the southern districts and the merged tribal areas. PMDC lists the college among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷ The college runs from that first session in December 2006 onward. ¹

The first classes ran from a borrowed building. Wikipedia records that early sessions used the Government High School No. 3 building. ¹ The college moved to its own site later in the session record. ¹ The government built the Township campus for the college. ¹

The government approved a permanent campus in Bannu Township in 2009. ¹ Construction started in 2013 on a 600-kanal site. ¹ The project cost 627 million rupees. ¹ The permanent campus opened in March 2021. ¹ The site sits on Main Kohat Road. ² The college site carries the campus address for applicants. ²

Two hospitals carry the clinical programme. PMDC lists Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital as an own hospital of the college. ⁸ PMDC lists DHQ Teaching Hospital, Bannu, as an own hospital. ⁸ The two hospitals sit inside Bannu district. PMDC names both hospitals in its 2025 attachment list. ⁸

Our dataset records the Khalifa Gul Nawaz hospital at 600 beds. Wikipedia gives 600 beds for that hospital, 244 for DHQ Hospital and 130 for the Women and Children’s Hospital. ¹ The three units sit in Bannu district. ¹ Wikipedia also records a Women and Children’s Hospital in Bannu. ¹

KMU is the affiliating university. ³ The college also appears on PMDC recognition lists and in the World Directory of Medical Colleges. ¹ Wikipedia records affiliations with KMU, PMDC, CPSP, the Pakistan Nursing Council and HEC. ¹ KMU prepares the merit list for the college. ³

Student societies work on campus. The college site records sports, literary, research and social welfare societies. ² The site also states ISO 9001:2015 certification. ² PMC recognition for MBBS and BDS appears on the same site. ²

BMC open-merit aggregates rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 80.20% in 2022 to 81.55% in 2023. It then reached 86.70% in 2024 and 93.40% in 2025. The rise runs across four sessions without a break.

The 2025 self-finance line closed at 92.63%. It sits 0.77 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 publishes the list on the cas.kmu.edu.pk portal. ⁵

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. ⁶ 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.

Clinical training runs through two hospitals in Bannu. PMDC lists Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital as an own hospital of the college. ⁸ PMDC lists DHQ Teaching Hospital, Bannu, as an own hospital too. ⁸ The two units sit inside Bannu city.

Our dataset records the Khalifa Gul Nawaz hospital at 600 beds. Wikipedia gives 600 beds for it, 244 for DHQ Hospital and 130 for the Women and Children’s Hospital. ¹ The three units sit inside Bannu district. Our record marks the programme as active. The three units give students their clinical postings.

Students rotate through inpatient wards, emergency care and community postings. Our record describes high-volume trauma and medical inpatient care at the teaching hospital. Students also use the Women and Children’s Hospital in Bannu. ¹ Students meet these services during the clinical years.

The hospitals serve the city and the surrounding districts. ¹ House-job training runs at the teaching hospital after graduation. PMDC names both hospitals in its 2025 attachment list. ⁸ The Women and Children’s Hospital sits in Bannu too. ¹

The permanent campus sits in Bannu Township on Main Kohat Road. ² The college site carries this address. ² The campus opened in March 2021 after work started in 2013. ¹ The Township site sits in the city of Bannu. The campus sits on a 600-kanal site. ¹

Our dataset records an academic campus, an anatomy museum, student hostels and a central library. The teaching hospital sits with the college blocks. Our record marks the programme as active with CPSP accreditation. The teaching blocks opened in March 2021. ¹

Early sessions ran from the Government High School No. 3 building. ¹ The Township site replaced those rented quarters. Hostels house resident students beside the academic blocks. The central library serves the students and the faculty. The campus sits inside Bannu city. ²

The college site carries notices, downloads and the contact block. ² Student societies run sports, literary, research and welfare work. ² The campus also holds the anatomy museum named in our record. Applicants download the forms and notices from the site. ²

PMDC recognises the MBBS programme at BMC. 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 BMC through its central portal. ⁴ The KMU portal carries the college merit lists. ⁵

Wikipedia records PMDC recognition and a listing in the World Directory of Medical Colleges. ¹ Our record lists the degree in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools and ECFMG eligibility. CPSP accreditation also appears in our record.

KMU lists the college among the public colleges it admits students to. ³⁴ The college site also records PMC recognition for MBBS and BDS. ² PMDC conducts the national MDCAT that BMC applicants must pass. ³

BMC sits in Bannu, a district in southern KP. The college serves students from the southern districts and the merged tribal areas. Hostels house resident students on campus. The campus sits on Main Kohat Road in Bannu Township. ² The college site records the student societies on campus. ²

Four student societies run sports, literary, research and social welfare activities. ² Societies work beside the academic timetable through the session. The college site carries the society pages for each group. ²

Bannu gives students access to markets, transport and city services. The teaching hospitals sit inside the same district. ⁸ The permanent campus opened in 2021. ¹ Resident students live in the hostel blocks beside the academic wing. The hostels sit beside the academic blocks on the Township site. ²