Karachi Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)

Karachi Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) is a private medical college inside Malir Cantonment, Karachi. ¹ The National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) affiliates the college, and NUMS admits students to the MBBS programme. ⁴⁵ The PMDC private medical colleges list records 100 MBBS seats for KIMS. ⁶

The KIMS Educational Welfare Trust runs the college. The trust is a non-profit that serves the families of Shuhada and veterans. ² The website states that the PMDC recognizes KIMS as a class A institute. ¹ The college also runs a four-year BSN nursing programme. ¹

Our dataset dates the establishment of the college to 2016. The history note places the founding in 2015 inside Malir Cantonment, under the patronage of the Pakistan Army. Clinical teaching happens at the 600-bed Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Malir. Our dataset marks hostel accommodation as available for men and women.

The college gives KIMS Secretariat, Malir Cantt, Karachi as its address. ¹ NUMS runs the centralized admission process for the college. ⁵ Our dataset records a fee of PKR 1,400,000 for the MBBS programme and marks the figure as estimated. The MBBS course runs for five years.

Our dataset records the founding of KIMS in 2015 inside Malir Cantonment, Karachi. The dataset also carries 2016 as the establishment year. The college works under the patronage of the Pakistan Army. It follows a disciplined model of medical education on a cantonment site.

The KIMS Educational Welfare Trust owns and runs the college. ² The trust describes itself as a non-profit that serves the families of Shuhada and veterans. ² The trust keeps the college beside its teaching hospital on one site. ¹ The website gives KIMS Secretariat as the postal address. ¹

NUMS lists KIMS in its affiliated medical colleges group for the 2025 session. ⁴ The NUMS list records the college website as web1.kimsmalir.edu.pk. ⁴ NUMS states that it acts as the admitting university for its affiliated and armed forces administered colleges. ⁵ The NUMS advertisement sets the session rules for this college. ⁵

The PMDC private medical colleges list records 100 MBBS seats for KIMS. ⁶ The PMDC attached-hospitals list names CMH Malir Cantt, Karachi as the hospital owned by the college. ⁷ The website states that the PMDC recognizes the college as a class A institute. ¹

The campus held several events in 2025. The NUMS Vice Chancellor, Lt Gen Wasim Alamgir (Retd), visited KIMS on 5 June 2025. An Environmental Health Conference ran on 28 July 2025. The Annual Sports Gala ran from 23 to 26 April 2025 at the Garrison Sports Complex. ¹

NUMS published a sixth selection list for open-merit MBBS seats at KIMS for session 2025-26. ⁸ The college website now carries MBBS Admission Guidelines for session 2026-27. ³ The site also holds the hostel pages and the nursing programme. ¹ Our dataset records the recognition status as active for the college.

Our dataset notes that the college follows a disciplined medical education model. It lists modern anatomy labs and NUMS digital library access among the facilities. The hospital and the academic block share the cantonment site. Students move between the two blocks during the clinical years. ¹ The anatomy labs sit inside the academic block in our record.

Our dataset records these closing self-finance MBBS aggregates for KIMS. The series reads 77 percent in 2022, 78 percent in 2023, 83.2 percent in 2024 and 86.4 percent in 2025. The 2025 value sits 3.2 points above the 2024 value. It rises in each of the four recorded sessions.

Every recorded row carries the self-finance quota label. Read the chart as the self-finance line for this college. The dataset holds no open-merit row for KIMS. Compare sessions with care.

NUMS builds the aggregate from three parts: 50 percent NUMS entry test, 40 percent HSSC and 10 percent SSC. ⁵ Each part enters the formula as a percentage of the marks you score. The MDCAT mark scale changed between 2021 and 2025. The same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. ⁵ Compare sessions against the same formula.

CMH Malir Cantt, Karachi is the teaching hospital of the college. The PMDC attached-hospitals list records it as a hospital owned by the college. ⁷ Our dataset records 600 beds at CMH Malir. The hospital stands inside Malir Cantonment beside the academic block. ¹

Clinical rotations run at CMH Malir. Our dataset notes rotation experience in trauma surgery, internal medicine and paediatrics. The hospital treats patients while it trains the students of the college. Clinical work starts after the basic science years of the MBBS course. The rotations run across the clinical years of the course.

The hospital and the college share one cantonment site. ¹ Students move between the college block and the hospital wards on foot. ¹ The hospital gives the students contact with emergency, medical and surgical cases. Our dataset records the hospital among the campus facilities.

PMDC published the attached-hospitals list on 7 November 2025. ⁷ The hospital appears among the recognised institutes with an attached hospital. ⁷ Our dataset notes a 600-bed capacity for the hospital. The hospital serves the cantonment and the wider Karachi area. The list separates owned hospitals from affiliated hospitals for each college. ⁷

The campus sits inside Malir Cantonment, Karachi. ¹ The college gives KIMS Secretariat, Malir Cantt, Karachi as its address. ¹ The site holds the academic block and sits beside the teaching hospital. ¹ The cantonment setting keeps the academic block close to the hospital wards. The address line on the website gives the same cantonment location. ¹

Our dataset lists the CMH Malir hospital complex, the Malir Cantt campus, modern anatomy labs, student hostels and NUMS digital library access among the facilities. The anatomy labs carry the pre-clinical teaching of the first years. The NUMS digital library adds to the reading material of the students. The facilities sit inside the cantonment campus in our record. The hostels sit beside the academic block.

The website carries a hostel page with a girls warden and a boys warden. ¹ The two wardens show that the campus keeps separate hostel accommodation for men and women. Our dataset marks hostel accommodation as available. The hostels house students who travel to Karachi for the session.

The PMDC private medical colleges list records KIMS with 100 MBBS seats. ⁶ The NUMS list of medical and dental colleges names Karachi Institute of Medical Sciences, Malir Cantt. ⁴ NUMS is the admitting university for its affiliated colleges under PMDC regulations. ⁵ Our dataset records the recognition status as active.

The website states that the PMDC recognizes KIMS as a class A institute. ¹ Our recognition record also carries PMDC recognition, a WHO World Directory of Medical Schools listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The NUMS college list names the college with its web address. ⁴ The recognition status stands for the 2025-26 session. ⁴

The campus sits inside Malir Cantt, so the college keeps a guarded cantonment setting. ¹ Our dataset lists student hostels on the campus. The hostels house students from other cities during the session. Our dataset marks hostel accommodation as available. The hostels keep separate wards for women and men. ¹

The campus held its Annual Sports Gala from 23 to 26 April 2025 at the Garrison Sports Complex. ¹ Sports form part of the student calendar alongside academic events. The gala ran for four days at the sports ground. ¹

The college ran an Environmental Health Conference on 28 July 2025. ¹ The NUMS Vice Chancellor visited the campus on 5 June 2025. ¹ These events give students contact with visiting academics and researchers. The website carries the campus news for the session. ¹ The conference and the gala both ran on the campus. ¹ The events run inside the cantonment campus in our record.