Independent Medical College

Independent Medical College is a private medical college in Faisalabad. The University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore, runs its MBBS admission as the admitting university. Applicants register on the UHS private MBBS portal and list the college among their preferences. ¹ The site header records 360 students, more than 1,250 pass-outs and 20 years of experience. ³

The college works beside Independent University Hospital, its teaching hospital. ³⁵ PMDC records 100 MBBS seats for the college. ⁶ UHS lists the college in its private-sector admission notice for 2025-26. ¹ The organisation also runs a nursing college and a paramedics college beside the medical college. ²

Our fact sheet dates the college to 2008 and records 500 beds at the teaching hospital. It gives estimated annual tuition of Rs. 1,500,000 for MBBS. The college runs the MBBS degree with BSc Operation Theatre Technology and BSc Doctor of Physical Therapy programmes. ² The college takes online applications at admissions.imc.edu.pk. ²

The idea of the college came from its founder and chairman, Prof. Mohammad Shuja Tahir. ³ Prof. Zafar Choudhary served as the first principal of the college. ³ Professors Irfan Ahmed Mughal, Major Fayyaz Malik and Badar Bashir led the founding faculty. ³ Professors Abdul Yaqub, Humayun Ikram and Abdul Sattar complete the founding list. ³ The clinical years ran under Prof. Muhammad Shuja Tahir and Prof. Mahnaaz Roohi. ³ Our fact sheet dates the establishment to 2008.

The college's own account puts the induction of its first MBBS batch in 2000. ³ The early phase ran from a campus in Jinnah Colony, Faisalabad. ³ Khadija Memorial Hospital and Main Mohammad Trust Hospital served as the affiliated hospitals at that stage. ³ Professor Altaf Hussain Rathore served a brief term as the next principal. ³

Prof. Mushtaq Cheema took charge in 2004. ³ The college website calls 2005 to 2007 a crisis period for medical colleges across the country. ³ The second phase brought a new campus and the Independent University Hospital in 2007. ³ The college website describes the hospital as a 690-bedded teaching hospital. ³ The 14th entry of the college graduated in 2017. ³

The hospital opened as part of that second phase and became the clinical base for the MBBS batch. ³⁵ The college website records affiliations with UHS, the Pakistan Medical Commission and CPSP. ² The site keeps an affiliation and hospitals section and a PMC international accreditation section. ²

The college now runs MBBS beside BSc Operation Theatre Technology and BSc Doctor of Physical Therapy. ² Chairman Prof. Dr. Shuja Tahir leads the college. ² The principal message on the site is signed by Prof. Dr. Abdul Hafeez Ch. ³

The chairman message marks the second convocation of the college. ³ The site posts an academic calendar and planner for the 2026 session. ² The news section carries vacancy notices for faculty. ² The site keeps a gallery and a downloads section for students. ²

IMC allots its seats under the private self-finance pool, so its aggregates follow the self-finance merit list. MBBS self-finance aggregates moved from 80% in 2022 to 81% in 2023, then to 81.50% in 2024 and 84.60% in 2025. The series gains about 4.6 points across the four sessions.

UHS builds the aggregate from 10% of SSC marks, 40% of HSSC marks and 50% of MDCAT marks. ¹ The final figure is rounded to four decimal places. ¹ An equal percentage does not always mean an equal raw score across sessions.

Our fact sheet gives an estimated annual tuition of Rs. 1,500,000 for MBBS. UHS holds Rs. 600,000 at admission under the private-sector rule. ¹ UHS shows a provisional merit list first and a final list after that. ¹

Independent University Hospital is the teaching hospital of the college. ⁵³ The hospital runs a 24/7 emergency department with ICU and CCU wards. ⁵ Our fact sheet records 500 beds at the hospital. The hospital website records a capacity of 550 beds. ⁵ The college website describes the hospital as a 690-bedded teaching hospital. ³

Services include an outpatient department, laboratories, X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI, and a blood bank. ⁵ The hospital runs operation theatres with gynaecology and paediatric services. ⁵ The home page lists the hospital beside the college, the nursing college and the paramedics college. ² The nursing college trains beside the hospital under the same organisation. ² The hospital website carries its own services pages. ⁵

The college site records bedside clinical instruction in internal medicine, general surgery and maternal health. ³ Students meet patients under supervision in clinics, wards and the emergency department. The second phase of the college brought the hospital in 2007 as the clinical base. ³ Our fact sheet records the hospital on Jaranwala Road in Faisalabad.

The contact page gives 175 Jinnah Colony, Faisalabad, as the college address. ⁴ The college began from a campus in Jinnah Colony. ³ Our dataset records the main campus in Faisalabad and the teaching hospital on Jaranwala Road. The site navigation keeps a gallery, a downloads section and a student affairs page. ²

The campus holds an anatomy museum and a dissection hall for the pre-clinical years. Our dataset records an anatomy museum and dissection lab, a digital library and student hostels. The site lists academic departments, institutes and a faculty section for the college. ²

The digital library gives the batches access to reference material. Hostel accommodation sits with the college facilities for students from outside Faisalabad. The site keeps a downloads section with forms and notices. ² The site keeps the MBBS fee structure for 2025-2026 in its admissions section. ² The site keeps a news section with academic notices for the batches. ²

UHS lists Independent Medical College Faisalabad in its private-sector MBBS admission notice for 2025-26. ¹ PMDC lists the college among the private medical colleges of Punjab with 100 seats. ⁶ Merit and selection lists appear only on the UHS website for the session. ¹

The college website records affiliations with UHS, the Pakistan Medical Commission and CPSP. ² Our fact sheet records a WHO World Directory listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The chairman holds FRCS (Ed) and FCPS (Hon), and the principal message carries FCPS (Cardiology). ³ PMDC recognition covers the MBBS course of the college. ⁶

The college office runs on weekday hours from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ² The campus sits at 175 Jinnah Colony in Faisalabad, close to city services. ⁴ The web portal runs at portal.imc.edu.pk for enrolled students. ² The site keeps a gallery page for student pictures. ²

Our dataset records student hostels, a digital library and an anatomy museum for the batches. Clinical work runs at Independent University Hospital through the clinical years. ⁵ The site carries the slogan "We are dream maker" and the tagline "Even sky is not the limit". ³

The college teaches MBBS students beside allied health batches in operation theatre technology and physical therapy. ² The site posts an academic calendar and planner for the 2026 session. ² The site header records 3 awards for the college. ³