ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, MANGALAGIRI

AIIMS Mangalagiri is a public medical research and higher education institute situated in Mangalagiri, within the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It was ranked 29th among medical institutes in India, 8th in the South Zone, and 1st in Andhra Pradesh according to the IIRF 2025 rankings. The institute originated from a 2014 budget announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who allocated ₹500 crore for four new Phase-IV AIIMS institutions, including one in Andhra Pradesh. The Union Cabinet approved the Mangalagiri AIIMS in October 2015 at an estimated cost of ₹1,618 crore, and construction of its permanent campus began in September 2017, with the foundation stone laid by Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. The institute began its first academic session in 2018–19 at a temporary campus at Siddhartha Medical College with 50 students, adding 50 more in 2019–20. The first batch at the permanent campus, comprising 125 students, started in 2020–21. The outpatient department began operating in March 2019, while the inpatient department started in January 2021.