Gajju Khan Medical College

Gajju Khan Medical College is a public medical college in Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ³⁷. The college is named after the Pakhtun leader Gajju Khan ⁴. Khyber Medical University in Peshawar runs its admissions ¹². Applicants apply on the KMU Centralized Admission System portal and list the college among their preferences ¹.

Our dataset records 70 MBBS seats and a first-year fee of PKR 22,000. The KMU 2025-26 seat table gives the same 70 total, with 30 seats on open merit ¹. The PMDC public register lists 50 seats for the session we checked ³.

Bacha Khan Medical Complex in Shah Mansoor is the attached teaching hospital ⁶. Our dataset records 500 beds there. The hospital website records 425 beds and 25 outpatient services ⁶.

The college runs as a Medical Teaching Institution in Swabi ⁴. It works from the Bacha Khan Medical Complex campus at present ⁴. The college site states that the campus will move to a purpose-built building at Ambar Kunda ⁴.

Our dataset records 2014 as the founding year. The Wikipedia entry gives the same year ⁷. The college site records the foundation stone date in its brief history ⁵.

The college site credits Mr. Asad Qaiser with laying the foundation stone of the college on 9 February 2014 ⁵. The site presents the project as a response to the need for medical education in Swabi ⁵.

The college takes its name from Gajju Khan, who lived from 1490 to 1565 ⁴⁵. He took part in the battles of Swat and Malakand in 1515 ⁴⁵. The site states that he ruled the Pakhtun land of the province for 35 years ⁴.

Wikipedia describes him as a 16th-century Pashtun revolutionary leader named Gaju Khan Baba ⁷. Our dataset calls him a 15th-century Pashtun chieftain. The two dates overlap because he lived across both centuries.

The college works from the Bacha Khan Medical Complex at Shah Mansoor ⁴. The site calls this location temporary ⁴. A purpose-built campus at Ambar Kunda in Swabi will replace it ⁴.

The site sits on the main Swabi-Jehangira road at Bacha Khan Medical Complex ⁴. It lies about 3 kilometres from the Swabi Motorway Interchange ⁴.

Three teaching hospitals flank the college ⁴. They are the Bacha Khan Medical Complex, the DHQ Hospital and the THQ Lahor in Swabi ⁴.

Wikipedia records 23 departments at the college ⁷. The department set covers basic sciences and clinical sciences ⁷. Our dataset records the college as active and affiliated with KMU Peshawar. The KMU policy states that public colleges in the province offer a five-year MBBS course ¹.

The Bacha Khan Medical Complex takes its name from Abdul Ghaffar Khan ⁶. He lived from 1890 to 1988 and was also known as Bacha Khan ⁶. The hospital site records the complex as the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁶. The site gives 425 beds and 25 outpatient services at the complex ⁶.

Our dataset records five merit entries for this college. The open-merit aggregate moved from 79.4% in 2022 to 80.75% in 2023, then to 87.1% in 2024 and 93.56% in 2025. The 2025 self-finance aggregate closed at 92.82%.

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.

Bacha Khan Medical Complex in Shah Mansoor is the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁶. Our dataset records 500 beds. The hospital website records 425 beds and 25 outpatient services ⁶.

The complex sits on the Swabi-Jehangira road in Shahmansoor ⁶. It lies about 3 kilometres from the Swabi Motorway Interchange ⁴⁶. The site records it as the attached teaching hospital of Gajju Khan Medical College ⁶.

The hospital site records the complex as named after Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who lived from 1890 to 1988 ⁶. He was also known as Bacha Khan ⁶. The complex grew from a project approved by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⁶.

Three teaching hospitals flank the college ⁴. They are the Bacha Khan Medical Complex, the DHQ Hospital and the THQ Lahor in Swabi ⁴. The college site names those three as its teaching hospital group ⁴.

Our dataset lists the Bacha Khan Medical Complex among the campus facilities. It records clinical training in medicine and surgery for the MBBS programme.

Our dataset records five campus facilities. They are the Bacha Khan Medical Complex in Swabi, digital anatomy theatres, a central library, student hostels and sports grounds.

The college works from the premises of the Bacha Khan Medical Complex in Shah Mansoor ⁴. The site sits on the main Swabi-Jehangira road ⁴. It lies about 3 kilometres from the Swabi Motorway Interchange ⁴.

The college site calls the current location temporary ⁴. A purpose-built campus at Ambar Kunda in Swabi will replace it ⁴.

The campus shares its grounds with the teaching hospital ⁴⁶. A laboratory, a museum and a library appear among the college pages ⁴.

Our dataset records hostels and sports grounds at the college. The site keeps a hostel page for student accommodation ⁴.

The address for the college is Shahmansoor township in Swabi ⁴. The contact page lists the same main campus for enquiries ⁴.

Our dataset records digital anatomy theatres for student practice.

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 50 seats, while our dataset and the KMU seat table record 70 ¹³.

Wikipedia records PMDC and KMU as the affiliations of the college ⁷. KMU works as the admitting university and publishes the seat distribution for each session ¹².

The KMU seat table splits the 70 seats across open merit, self-finance, reserved quotas and project seats ¹. Open merit holds 30 of them ¹. The policy states that no public college may admit beyond the seats allocated by the PMDC ¹.

The KMU table also records one seat for disabled candidates in the college ¹.

Our dataset marks the college as open to men and women and records student hostels on campus. The college site keeps a hostel page for student accommodation ⁴. The site also lists a hiking club among the student societies ⁴.

The site lists student societies that students run themselves ⁴. The Social Welfare Society works as a non-profit group run by the students of the college ⁴. The Literary Society keeps its own page on the site ⁴.

Sports grounds appear among the campus facilities in our dataset. The college site also keeps a sports society page ⁴.

The Swabi-Jehangira road links the campus to the motorway interchange ⁴. The temporary campus sits inside the hospital grounds ⁴⁶.

Our dataset records digital anatomy theatres and a central library for student use.