Kabir Medical College (Gandhara University)

Kabir Medical College (KMC) is a private medical college in Peshawar ¹. It runs the five-year MBBS programme with 100 seats ²⁶. KMU conducts its admissions on the private-sector admission portal ⁴⁵. Our record gives an estimated yearly fee of PKR 1,300,000 for the MBBS course. The programme page states a five-year scheme of study for the MBBS course ².

The college is a constituent college of Gandhara University ¹². The university names six institutions on its site, and the medical college is the first of them ¹. The university keeps its colleges, hospitals and journals on one site ¹.

Clinical teaching runs at Naseer Teaching Hospital in Peshawar ³⁷. Our record lists 500 beds at that hospital. The hospital page describes a 250-bed hospital ³.

The KMU private portal runs the admission round for the 2026-27 session ⁴. Our record marks the college entry as active for the session we checked.

Our record gives two founding dates for the college. One field reads 1996 and the history note reads 1995. The site footer starts at 1995, and the Wikipedia list of Pakistani medical colleges gives 1995 ⁹. The footer line of the university site runs from 1995 to 2026 ¹.

The founder, Prof. Surgeon Muhammad Kabir, was born on 7 December 1935 in Peshawar ¹. He worked in the medical field for more than 45 years ¹. The university names him as the founder on its home page ¹. The site lists Mrs. Roeeda Kabir as the chairperson of the university ¹.

Gandhara University houses six institutions. They cover medicine, dentistry, allied health sciences, nursing, public health and pharmacy ¹. The medical college is the first of the six institutions on the list ¹. The university also names Sardar Begum Dental Hospital among its hospitals ¹.

Our record names Gandhara University as the affiliation. The KPK regulator lists KMU as the affiliating university and the Gandhara University-Begum Muhammad Naseer Trust as the owner ⁸. The regulator marks the college entry active with registration 377 ⁸. The regulator publishes the entry on its list of registered medical and dental colleges of the province ⁸. The regulator's entry names the college in Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⁸.

PMDC's private medical register carries Kabir Medical College with 100 seats ⁶. The programme page states that Gandhara University admits students to the MBBS course under PMDC rules ². The programme page cites the PMC Admission Regulation 2020-21 for the MBBS round ². The programme page also states the eligibility criteria for the applicants ².

The programme page states that the college follows a five-year scheme of study for MBBS ². KMU lists the college on its private admission portal for the 2026-27 session ⁴⁵. The site keeps an admission page beside the programme page for the current round ¹.

Our record holds four self-finance closing aggregates for this college. The closing aggregate moved from 78.2% in 2022 to 79.55% in 2023, then to 81.5% in 2024 and 84.6% in 2025. The 2025 row is the highest of the four.

KMU builds the aggregate from three parts: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC ⁴. The private portal applies the same formula to every private college on its list ⁴. The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent sessions. One percentage does not mean one raw score in every row.

The KMU portal asks for at least 60% in HSSC and at least 55% in MDCAT for MBBS ⁴¹⁰. The college site states its own criteria: 65% in F.Sc and 60% in MDCAT, with an interview of 20% weightage ². Our record gives an estimated yearly fee of PKR 1,300,000 for MBBS. The gaps between the four rows are 1.35, 1.95 and 3.1 points.

PMDC lists Naseer Teaching Hospital as the college's own teaching hospital ⁷. Our record lists 500 beds at that hospital. The hospital page describes Naseer Teaching Hospital as a 250-bed hospital ³. The hospital stands on Canal Road in University Town, Peshawar ³.

The hospital page lists 14 departments, and they include surgery, cardiothoracic work, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and radiology ³. A 24-hour emergency department and an around-the-clock pharmacy serve the patients ³. Radiology supports the diagnostic work of the other departments ³.

The hospital page states that it trains MBBS and BDS students and gives free treatment to the community ³. The hospital won recognition at its first PMDC inspection in November 1997 ³. The college site links the hospital page for the students and the public ¹.

PMDC's list also names Town Teaching Hospital on Canal Road as an affiliated hospital of the college ⁷. Both the campus and Town Teaching Hospital sit on Canal Road in Peshawar ¹⁷.

The campus sits at Canal Rd, Academy Town University Town, Peshawar ¹. Our record lists Naseer Teaching Hospital, the Gandhara university campus, the dissection hall and laboratories, the on-campus hostels and the central university library. The campus address doubles as the postal address of the university ¹.

The university and the hospital sit on Canal Road in the same town ¹³. The university keeps three telephone lines and one email address for the campus ¹. The telephone lines run for the front desk of the university ¹. The site lists the email address for general queries of the campus ¹.

The university publishes three journals for its students and faculty ¹. The site also lists an international conference of the founder among its academic events ¹. The journals carry the academic work of the students and the faculty ¹.

Our record lists the dissection hall and laboratories among the facilities of the campus. The university site groups its institutions, hospitals and journals on one home page ¹.

PMDC's private medical register carries Kabir Medical College in Peshawar with 100 seats ⁶. Our record marks the MBBS programme as PMDC recognised. Our record also lists a WHO directory entry, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The regulator's entry and the PMDC register both carry the college for the session ⁸⁶.

The KPK regulator keeps the college entry active with registration 377 and a renewal entry for 2023 ⁸. Naseer Teaching Hospital won recognition at its first PMDC inspection in November 1997 ³. Our record marks the college entry as active for the session we checked.

Our record lists on-campus hostels and a central university library for the students. The campus sits in University Town, a residential area of Peshawar ¹. The record marks the college open to men and women.

The university holds academic events, and the site lists the Surgeon Muhammad Kabir International Conference among them ¹. The event page describes a conference on artificial intelligence in healthcare and education ¹. The event page describes the conference on the university site for the public ¹.

The university publishes three journals that carry the work of students and faculty ¹. The six institutions of the university share one campus and one set of sports facilities. The university keeps a central library for the students and faculty of the six institutions ¹.