Nowshera Medical College

Nowshera Medical College is a public medical college in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ³. 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 115 MBBS seats and a first-year fee of PKR 22,000. The KMU 2025-26 seat table gives the same 115 total, with 73 seats on open merit ¹. The PMDC public register lists 100 seats for the session we checked ³.

Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex is the attached teaching hospital ⁵. It sits beside the college on the Kabul River Mardan Road in Nowshera Kalan ⁴⁵. Our dataset records 550 beds at the hospital. The hospital site records 500 ⁵.

The college works as a Medical Teaching Institution under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MTI Act ⁴. A Dean and Chief Executive Officer head the institution ⁴. The college site records an ISO 9001:2015 quality management certificate ⁴. It calls the college the second public sector medical college in the province to earn it ⁴.

Our dataset records 2017 as the founding year. Its history note gives 2014. Public sources give both 2014 and 2017, so the founding year is not settled ⁵⁶⁷.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department approved starting the medical college inside the new teaching hospital building in March 2014. The notification carried the reference SO(IV)/2-44/2014 dated 18 March 2014 ⁷. The approval placed the college under the provincial health department ⁷.

The complex grew from an older district hospital. Qazi Hussain Ahmad approved the category upgrade of the DHQ Hospital in 2004 ⁷. The hospital received category A status in the same year ⁷. The provincial government declared it a teaching hospital for Nowshera in 2014 ⁷.

Wikipedia records 2017 as the establishment year of the college ⁶. The hospital site states that the Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex was established in 2017 ⁵.

The college site records an ISO 9001:2015 quality management certificate. It calls Nowshera Medical College the second public sector medical college in the province to earn that certificate ⁴.

Press reports in March and May 2022 covered the appointment of a permanent Board of Governors at the college ⁶. The college now works as a Medical Teaching Institution with a Dean and CEO ⁴.

Under the Medical Teaching Institution framework, the college and the hospital work as one organisation ⁴. The college site keeps separate sections for the Dean’s office, establishment, accounts and hostel ⁴. Transport, student affairs, IT, and health and research sections join them ⁴.

The college site lists its basic science departments and its clinical departments ⁴. Clinical entries include Radiology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology and Pediatric Surgery ⁴. The attached hospital handles the clinical teaching for those departments ⁵.

Khyber Medical University in Peshawar is the admitting university for the college ¹. KMU publishes a seat table for each session that lists the college by name ¹. The 2025-26 table gives Nowshera 115 sanctioned seats ¹.

Our dataset records five merit entries for this college. The open-merit aggregate moved from 80.1% in 2022 to 81.45% in 2023, then to 86.9% in 2024 and 93.61% in 2025. The 2025 self-finance aggregate closed at 92.84%.

KMU builds the aggregate from three parts. MDCAT carries 50%, HSSC carries 40% and SSC carries 10% ¹². Read the rows with care. 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.

Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex is the attached teaching hospital of the college. Our dataset records 550 beds. The hospital site records a total bed capacity of 500 ⁵. The hospital began operations in 2017 ⁵.

The hospital site places the complex on the Kabul River Mardan Road at Nowshera Kalan ⁵. It records 2017 as the hospital year ⁵. The campus and the hospital share the same road ⁴⁵.

Clinical services listed there include Accident and Emergency, General Surgery, Orthopedics, ENT and General Medicine ⁵. Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Dialysis and a general ICU join them ⁵. A trauma unit works under the Orthopedic department ⁵.

Diagnostics cover pathology, a radiology department with CT and MRI services, blood bank services and cath lab services ⁵. The list also includes a TB clinic and a gastroenterology unit ⁵.

The college site lists Radiology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Pediatric Surgery and Surgery among its clinical departments ⁴. Students move from the college blocks to the hospital wards for clinical training ⁴⁵. The hospital also runs a blood bank and a cath lab for those departments ⁵.

The hospital worked as a district headquarters hospital before its upgrade ⁷. The provincial government approved category A status in 2004 and teaching status in 2014 ⁷.

Our dataset records five campus facilities. They are the Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex, modern modular lecture theatres, a skills simulation lab, student hostels and a digital library. The dataset marks hostels as present and the college as open to men and women.

The campus sits on the Kabul River Mardan Road in Nowshera, next to the teaching hospital ⁴⁵. The college site keeps separate sections for the hostel, transport, student affairs and IT ⁴.

The site also records a health and research department alongside the Dean’s office ⁴. An establishment section and an accounts section also appear on the site ⁴.

The college site states that student clubs and societies complement the academic programmes ⁴. The dataset records a digital library and a skills simulation lab for student use.

The address on the college site reads Nowshera Medical College, Kabul River Mardan Road, Nowshera ⁴. The teaching hospital shares that stretch of road ⁵.

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 among the public medical colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 100 seats. Our dataset and the KMU admission policy record 115 ¹³.

KMU works as the admitting university and publishes the seat distribution for each session ¹². The college also holds an ISO 9001:2015 QMS certification on its own site ⁴.

The KMU policy states that the MDCAT result stays valid for three years across the country ¹.

Our dataset marks the college as open to men and women and records student hostels on campus. The college site keeps a dedicated hostel section among its student services ⁴.

The college site records student clubs and societies next to the academic programmes ⁴. It keeps a student affairs section that handles student matters ⁴. A transport section also appears among the student services ⁴.

The hospital complex and the college share the Kabul River Mardan Road address ⁴⁵. Students walk between the college blocks and the hospital wards along that road ⁴⁵. Nowshera Kalan is the locality named on the hospital site ⁵.

The college site records an ISO 9001:2015 quality management certificate for the institution ⁴.