Bilawal Medical College

Bilawal Medical College for Boys is a public medical college at Jamshoro. ¹ It works as a constituent college of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences. ¹³ Our dataset marks the sector as public and the recognition status as active.

Wikipedia calls it the first male-only medical college of Pakistan. ⁵ The prospectus keeps 100 MBBS seats at the college. ¹²

The seat table splits the 100 seats between 24 districts and overseas Pakistanis. ² Our programme record lists 100 MBBS seats at Rs. 18,000 a year. Our hospital record lists Liaquat University Hospital at Jamshoro as the attached hospital with 1,500 beds.

Our dataset history note calls the college a dedicated boys public medical college of LUMHS. It records clinical exposure in internal medicine, pediatric health and general surgery.

The parent university grew from a medical school at the present Civil Hospital Hyderabad in 1881, the first medical institution of Sindh. ¹ After Sindh left the Bombay Presidency, the school became a medical college under Bombay University. ¹ Wikipedia calls LUMHS the second oldest medical school of Pakistan and the oldest of Sindh. ⁵ Government regulation of the school began in 1928. ⁵

Sir Francis Moody, the first Governor of Sindh, inaugurated the medical college, and the first batch held 45 students. ¹ The college moved to Karachi on 10 December 1945 and took the name Dow Medical College. ¹

The Government of Sindh opened Liaquat Medical College at the same Hyderabad premises in 1951. ¹ It took the name of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. ⁵ It moved to the Jamshoro campus in 1963, and the same year added the dental section and postgraduate courses. ¹

The college gained postgraduate institute status in 1989 and produced more than 1,200 specialists. ¹ The Governor of Sindh promulgated the Liaquat University Ordinance on 20 January 2001, which formed the first public sector medical university of the country. ¹ Wikipedia records the first cancer research laboratory of the country at the university in 2021. ⁵

The prospectus VC message states that Bilawal Medical College was established in 2016 to meet the need for male doctors in the province. ² The LUMHS timeline records the college start in 2018. ³ Our dataset records 2010 in the field and 2012 in the history note.

Wikipedia records LUMHS as the admitting university of the province since 2019. ⁵ The Sindh Medical School started in 1881 with 20 students trained as licentiate physicians. ⁵

Our dataset records Bilawal Medical College MBBS open-merit aggregates of 80.20% for 2022, 81.65% for 2023, 76.90% for 2024 and 82.80% for 2025.

Every aggregate follows the Sindh formula: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ¹ The MDCAT scale moved from 210 marks to 200 marks and then to 180 marks across these years. ⁷ One percentage point is not one raw mark in every row.

The 2024 row sits 4.75 points below 2023, and the 2025 row recovers to 82.80%. The four rows span 5.9 points, from 76.90% to 82.80%. The 2025 row is the highest of the four rows. Read the rows as a range of about six points, not as one cut-off.

Liaquat University Hospital works as the main teaching hospital of LUMHS. ⁶ Wikipedia records 2,200 beds across Hyderabad and Jamshoro for the hospital. ⁶

Our hospital record lists 1,500 beds for Liaquat University Hospital at Jamshoro. Our dataset history note says the hospital gives clinical exposure in internal medicine, pediatric health and general surgery. The record names the hospital at both Jamshoro and Hyderabad.

The hospital began in 1881, and seven wards finished in 1894 at a cost of Rs. 88,173. ⁶ A Jamshoro branch of 430 beds, with Italian design, took patients from 1963. ⁶

Wikipedia records that the hospital serves Sindh and the neighbouring province of Balochistan. ⁶ It also records the NIMRA Cancer Hospital in the university network. ⁵ Our dataset history note names the hospital as the clinical base of the college.

Jamshoro sits on the right bank of the Indus, 160 km north of Karachi and 16 km from Hyderabad. ³ Wikipedia records a campus of 570 acres. ⁵ Wikipedia marks the campus type as urban. ⁵

Our facilities record lists the LUMHS Jamshoro campus, the Liaquat University Hospital wards, the central medical library, the hostels and the sports ground.

The university holds the Colonel Najeeb Khan Sports Stadium, whose foundation stone went down in 2000. ³ The Al-Tibri International Hostel opened in January 2011. ³ Wikipedia records the postgraduate medical centre and the medical research centre on the campus. ⁵

The prospectus fee table holds a hostel room at Rs. 4,400 a month in Al-Tibri Hostel for boys. ¹ Other hostels charge Rs. 50,000 a year plus a Rs. 5,000 allotment. ¹

The prospectus records recognition from the British General Medical Council and the ECFMG of the USA for the parent university. ¹ It also records training recognition for FCPS and MCPS. ¹

Wikipedia records LUMHS as the first public sector medical university of the country. ⁵ Wikipedia also lists the Pakistan Medical Commission, the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan and the Pakistan Nursing Council with the university. ⁵

Our recognition record holds PMDC recognition, a WHO World Directory listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. Our dataset marks the recognition status of the college as active.

Bilawal Medical College runs as the boys college of a university that also holds the mixed and women campuses. ¹⁵ Students train in the university hostels and grounds. ³ The boys hostel and the sports stadium sit on the same campus. ³

The university holds partnerships with institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Turkey and Azerbaijan. ² The university also runs two nursing schools that offer BSc Nursing. ⁵

Wikipedia records about 350 medical graduates each year from the university. ⁵ The campus runs a digital resource centre, an OSPE centre and a dentistry skill lab. ⁴