Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry

Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry (LCMD) is a private medical and dental college in Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi. ¹ Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) affiliates the college. ¹² The PMDC private medical colleges list records 100 MBBS seats for LCMD. ³

The JSMU affiliated colleges list records 100 MBBS seats and 75 BDS seats, with affiliation from 20 November 2014. ² The PMDC private dental colleges list records 75 BDS seats. ⁴ Our dataset records 150 MBBS seats and 75 BDS seats.

The college sits at St-19, Johar Chowrangi Road, Block 15, Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi. ¹ The PMDC records Dar-ul-Sehat Hospital, Karachi as the hospital owned by the college. ⁵ Our dataset records 500 beds at that hospital. Our dataset records a fee of PKR 1,500,000 for the MBBS programme and PKR 1,300,000 for BDS. Both figures are marked as estimated.

Our dataset carries 2006 as the establishment year. The college website states that the college was established in 2000 and now enters its silver jubilee. ¹ Our dataset marks hostel accommodation as available for men and women. The campus sits inside a residential district of Karachi. ¹

The college website dates the founding to 2000. ¹ The college carries the name of Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan. ¹ It began as a dental college and later expanded into a full medical institution. ¹ The website states that the college enters its silver jubilee. ¹ The website gives the address of the college in Gulistan-e-Johar. ¹

Our dataset records the founding in 2006 in Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi. The dataset also places the attached hospital at 500 beds. It marks the college as active in Sindh.

JSMU lists the college among its affiliated institutions for MBBS and BDS from 20 November 2014. ² The JSMU record gives 100 MBBS seats and 75 BDS seats for LCMD. ² The JSMU affiliated colleges list also names Sir Syed College, Jinnah Medical and Dental College and Liaquat National Hospital Medical College. ² The list covers the private institutions of the province. ² The JSMU list prints the affiliation date for each college. ²

The college website lists MBBS, BDS, MCPS, FCPS and MD in medicine. ¹ It lists BDS, MDS, MCPS and FCPS in dentistry. ¹ It also lists an LPN programme and a nursing assistant programme. ¹ The programme pages carry the current course structure. ¹ The programme list covers the medical, dental and nursing fields.

The PMDC private medical colleges list records 100 MBBS seats for the college. ³ The PMDC private dental colleges list records 75 BDS seats. ⁴ Both lists place the college in Karachi. ³⁴ Our dataset marks the recognition status as active.

The PMDC attached-hospitals list records three hospitals for the medical college. Dar-ul-Sehat Hospital appears as owned. The Sindh Employees Social Security Hospital and Shaukat Omer Memorial Hospital appear as affiliated. ⁵ The dental section records Dar-ul-Sehat Hospital and Qamar Dental Hospital as owned, with Khidmat-E-Khalq Foundation as affiliated. ⁵ PMDC published that list on 7 November 2025. ⁵

DUHS ran the Sindh admission process as the admitting university for the province in session 2023-24. ⁶ The DUHS 2025-26 portal carries a category for private medical and dental colleges of Sindh. ⁷ LCMD appears in the JSMU affiliated colleges list. ² The college sits in Gulistan-e-Johar, a residential district of Karachi. ¹

Our dataset records these closing self-finance MBBS aggregates for LCMD: 81.2% in 2024 and 84.4% in 2025. The 2025 value sits 3.2 points above the 2024 value. Our dataset holds two sessions for MBBS.

BDS follows the same direction. The recorded closing self-finance aggregates are 78.6% in 2024 and 81.8% in 2025. The BDS line sits below the MBBS line in both recorded sessions.

Every recorded row carries the self-finance quota label. The Sindh merit formula weights SSC at 10%, HSSC at 40% and MDCAT at 50%. ⁶ Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale changed between 2021 and 2025, so the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. Read each college row against the current formula. ⁶ The SSC part of the formula carries the smallest weight.

Dar-ul-Sehat Hospital, Karachi is the attached teaching hospital. The PMDC records it as a hospital owned by the college. ⁵ Our dataset records 500 beds at the hospital and places it in Gulistan-e-Johar. The hospital sits beside the academic campus in Gulistan-e-Johar. ¹

The PMDC also lists two affiliated hospitals for the medical college: the Sindh Employees Social Security Hospital and Shaukat Omer Memorial Hospital. ⁵ The dental section adds Qamar Dental Hospital as owned and Khidmat-E-Khalq Foundation as affiliated. ⁵ The medical college and the dental section carry separate hospital sets. ⁵ Students rotate through the owned and the affiliated hospitals. ⁵

The college website names DSH, Qamar Dental Hospital, SESSI, Khidmat-e-Khalq and Fauji as its associate hospitals. ¹ Our dataset notes rotations in emergency trauma, general surgery, paediatric medicine and oral and maxillofacial surgery. The rotations run across the clinical years of the course.

Students move between the academic campus and the clinical sites in Karachi. Clinical work starts after the basic science years of the course. PMDC published the attached-hospitals list on 7 November 2025. ⁵ The list separates owned hospitals from affiliated hospitals for each college. ⁵

The campus sits at St-19, Johar Chowrangi Road, Block 15, Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi. ¹ The academic block holds classrooms, dental clinics and the student common rooms. The site sits at Johar Chowrangi Road in Block 15. ¹ The address line on the website gives the same block number. ¹

Our dataset lists the Darul Sehat hospital site in Gulistan-e-Johar, modern dental clinics, a CAD/CAM prosthodontics suite, a digital library and student common rooms. The CAD/CAM suite supports the prosthodontics teaching. The digital library holds the reference collection for the students. The common rooms sit inside the academic block. The suite sits inside the dental block in our record.

The dental training uses the clinical sites named by the college. ¹ Our dataset marks hostel accommodation as available for men and women. The hostels house students who travel to Karachi for the session. Student common rooms sit inside the academic block. The campus holds the lecture halls and the laboratories. The campus sits inside Block 15 of Gulistan-e-Johar. ¹

JSMU affiliates the college for MBBS and BDS from 20 November 2014. ² The PMDC private medical colleges list records 100 MBBS seats, and the private dental colleges list records 75 BDS seats. ³⁴ Our dataset marks the recognition status as active. PMDC published the college lists for the 2025 session. ³ The affiliation covers both programmes of the college. ²

The college website states that the college is recognized by the PMDC and listed in the WHO directory of recognized medical and dental schools. ¹ Our recognition record also carries a WHO World Directory of Medical Schools listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The DUHS portal runs the provincial process for the session. ⁷

The campus sits in Gulistan-e-Johar, a residential district of Karachi. ¹ Karachi is the largest city of Sindh. Our dataset lists student common rooms among the facilities. The hostels house students from outside Karachi during the session. Our dataset marks the college as mixed rather than women-only.

The college website lists an Independence Day celebration, a convocation, a commencement day, Sports Week, Oral Health Week and an annual picnic. ¹ These events fill the student calendar across the session. The events run on the academic campus. ¹ Oral Health Week puts the dental students in front of the public. ¹

Clinical work runs in a dense hospital network in Karachi. ⁵ Students train at the attached hospital beside the campus and at the affiliated sites listed by the PMDC. ⁵ The attached hospital sits beside the academic block. ¹ The affiliated sites sit across the city of Karachi. ⁵